Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams has described provocative anti-sealing activist Paul Watson as a "terrorist." Watson, whose Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat was seized Saturday, has described the incident involving his foreign-registered ship as "an act of war" and "an act of piracy."

But Williams said Watson — who earlier this month described sealers as "sadistic baby-killers" — deserves no sympathy."Ever since I've been aware of him, I've always considered Paul Watson to be, you know, a vile, disgusting excuse for a human being," Williams told CBC News Sunday, as Watson was arriving in Nova Scotia to help bail out the skipper and first officer of the ship.

"I think what a lot of people don't realize is that this man is a terrorist, in fact, you know, to come out with the insensitive remarks, for example, that he came out with a few weeks ago, when these sealers lost their lives and he put their lives below animal lives," Williams said.

Watson sparked an uproar earlier this month when he said that while the death of four Quebec sealers was a tragedy, "the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy."

Watson defended the remarks — which prompted Green party Leader Elizabeth May to resign an honorary post with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — and said, "I'm here to rock the boat, to make waves, to make people think, you know, to provoke." (CBC)

1979 - He sank the commercial whaling ship the Sierra by ramming it. His ship was equipped with a cement-filled bow.
1980 - He sank the the whaling ships Isba I and Isba II in Vigo, Spain.
1980 - He sank the the whaling ships Susan and Theresa in South Africa.
1981 - He sank the whaling ships Hvalur 6 and Hvalur 7 in Iceland
1986 - Sank half a fleet of Icelandic whaling boats.
1987 - Founded the practise of tree spiking for his other terrorist group the Heart of the Wood.
1992 - He threatened to sink a fleet of ships reenacting the Columbus voyage of the discovery of America.
1992 - He sank the whaling ship Nybraena in Norway.
1994 - He sank the whaling ship Senet in Norway
1997 - He was imprisoned in the Netherlands for ramming a Norwegian coast guard vessel and trying to ram a whaling ship that was tied up at dock.
1998 - He sank the whaling ship Morild in Norway
2002 - He tried to ram a 13 foot shark boat with his ship the Farley Mowat (previously named the Ocean Warrior).
2005 - He attempted to ram the Japanese whaling ship the Oriental Bluebird.
2007 - He attacked the Japanese whaling ship the Kaiko Maru with bottles of butyric acid.
2008 - He attacked the Japanese whaling ship the Yushin Maru with bottles of butyric acid.