1.   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.

2.   Also hailing the accord, adopted in this eastern Nova Scotia city by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, was the European fisheries commissioner, Emma Bonino.

3.   New proposals by the EU to downsize European fisheries has cast gloom and bitterness over Spain, the leading fishing nation of the European Union.

4.   New proposals by the EU to downsize European fisheries have cast gloom and bitterness over Spain, the leading fishing nation of the European Union.

5.   The ban on British beef and the effects of European fisheries regulations on British fishermen were just two of the recurrent anti-European themes that emerged in the congress.