31.   Royal Air Force helicopters scoured the storm-lashed Irish Sea in search of a French fishing trawler after its emergency distress beacon was picked up by coastguards.

32.   Six Thais in a fishing trawler have been arrested for alleged poaching in Malaysian waters in the South China Sea, the national news agency Bernama reported Thursday.

33.   Spain is sending a third navy patrol boat to protect its fishing trawlers in disputed waters off Newfoundland, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

34.   Spain threatened to impose visa restrictions and even cut diplomatic relations with Canada to protest the seizure of a Spanish fishing trawler in international waters.

35.   Skipper Ole Mindor Myklebust said it was time to talk and invited the group on board his fishing trawler Kato for the hunt.

36.   The accident came just three days after a Navy submarine crashed into a Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of Oahu, sinking the trawler.

37.   Tamil rebels attacked Colombo harbor Friday in two fishing trawlers laden with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades.

38.   Tamil rebels in a small fishing trawler laden with explosives entered the Colombo harbor early Friday, but their vessel was destroyed by naval gunboats.

39.   The Bangladesh navy seized a Thai fishing trawler Saturday for illegally operating in its territorial waters, police said.

40.   The coast guard was searching for the missing people from two fishing trawlers that sank in the Bay of Bengal.