1.   The licensing fee was the work of militant former Canadian fisheries minister Brian Tobin.

2.   But some former fisheries workers are shifting gears successfully through retraining.

3.   Efford had been touted as the one Liberal who might mount a challenge against Tobin, the former federal fisheries minister.

4.   He expressed confidence the dispute could be peacefully resolved, saying Japan had sent a former fisheries official to Taiwan to hold talks.

5.   In another significant promotion, Nujoma appointed former fisheries minister Helmut Angula as finance minister.

6.   This was picked up by former federal fisheries minister John Crosbie who said the authority to arrest foreign trawlers in international waters could come only with United Nations agreement.