1.   In Madrid, crowds of enraged fishermen hurled dead fish at the Canadian Embassy, claiming Ottawa was harassing the Spanish fishing fleet.

2.   Canada reached agreement this year with Europe to limit turbot fishing, after confronting Spanish fishing fleets in the Atlantic.

3.   French maritime authorities searched Wednesday for a Spanish fishing boat with eight men aboard that has been missing since a storm hit the southwestern French coast five days ago.

4.   President Clemente Jesus Muniz said the other countries were using environmental arguments as an excuse to stop Spanish fishing.

5.   Tobin said the Spanish patrol frigate Vigia joined in the chase and as many as nine other Spanish fishing vessels appeared to be moving into a position to participate.

6.   Spanish fishing unions confirmed that the vessel had been damaged during a clash and was being towed to a Spanish port.

7.   The dispute centers on a rich fishing area in the Irish Sea and along the southwestern coast of Cornwall that Britain wants to ban for the Spanish fishing fleet.