1.   The Canadian government has drastically reduced catch quotas for cod after admitting that stocks of the fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland are dangerously low.

2.   Bluefin tuna are currently treated as two separate stocks, one in the western Atlantic and one in the eastern, with different catch quotas for each.

3.   Gore proposed the resumption of formal talks over catch quotas and conservation of salmon runs headed for rivers in the Northwest and British Columbia.

4.   Will commercial longliners be allowed to clean out the Bay Area coast or will the DFG finally establish catch quotas to protect all fish species?

5.   After a night of haggling, European fisheries ministers reached a pre-dawn accord Friday that will slash catch quotas next year to protect fish species threatened with commercial extinction.

6.   Among the other topics discussed Wednesday in this southern Japan port city and former commercial whaling hub were aboriginal catch quotas, whale watching and whale killing methods.

7.   Apart from the catch quotas for the dwindling schools of flatfish, both sides were closer to a deal on stricter controls on boats.

8.   Canadian and EU negotiators were hammering out the agreement in Brussels until early Tuesday, trying to reach a compromise on catch quotas and policing of fishing grounds.

9.   EU officials said no agreement on the catch quota was likely before Friday.

10.   Last winter, the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization set catch quotas for the first time in response to a decline in stocks.