41.   Tobin said there were three Canadian patrol vessels watching the Spanish vessels on the so-called Nose of the Grand Banks.

42.   Two Spanish trawlers were involved early Thursday in another incident with Canadian patrol boats while fishing in international waters off the Canadian coast, Spanish radio reported.

43.   When the Canadian patrol ships approached the trawlers, to try to identify them, he said, the trawlers quickly hauled in their nets and left.

44.   It came after Spanish fishermen claimed that Canadian patrol vessels had tried to board and to cut the nets of a Spanish trawler off Newfoundland overnight.

45.   On Thursday, a Canadian patrol boat cut the net of the fishing boat Jose Antonio Nores and officers tried to board another ship in international waters.