By Lisandra Paraguassu

BELEM, Brazil, (Reuters) -A Canadian anti-whaling activist who has dodged arrest in Japan for more than a decade vowed at COP30 in Brazil to continue fighting for marine protection – taking aim in particular at deep-sea mining and Norway’s krill industry.

Paul Watson urged delegates this week at the U.N. climate summit in the Amazon city of Belem to look beyond the world’s forests and remember that oceans also help to limit climate change, with phytoplankton producing much of the oxygen that we breathe.

These photosynthetic organisms along with many ocean creatures are under threat, as climate change warms ocean temperatures and melts polar sea ice.

“If phytoplankton were to disappear from the sea, we would die,” Watson told Reuters in an interview aboard his boa

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