New Zealand's foreign minister says his country's maritime agency will carry out an investigation into a collision between a Japanese whaling vessel and a boat belonging to the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling protest group.<br /><br />The clash took place in the Southern ocean, in waters which come under Australian and New Zealand maritime authority.<br /><br />Sea Shepherd says its boat, the Ady Gil, was stationary and that the Japanese whaler, Shonan Maru, veered towards it and deliberately sliced off its bow.<br /><br />But Glenn Inwood, who works with a public relations firm hired by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, said Sea Shepherd had harassed the Shonan Maru for two hours and was solely to blame for the collision.<br /><br />The Australian government is under pressure to send its own ship to the area to police the standoff. <br /><br />Harry Fawcett reports.
