11.   Machine-gun rounds ripping over the bows of Spanish trawlers.

12.   No shots were fired, but Canadians chased a second Spanish trawler they had also tried to board.

13.   Since that incident, Canada has cut the nets from one other Spanish trawler and tried to board a third.

14.   Spain last week dispatched an armed naval patrol vessel, the Vigia, with orders to defend Spanish trawlers operating in international waters off Newfoundland.

15.   The action was announced late Sunday in Ottawa after a confrontation on the high seas involving five Canadian patrol vessels and a dozen Spanish trawlers.

16.   The Canadian capture of that Spanish trawler last month was a surprise, eh?

17.   The diplomatic tussle began when a Canadian patrol vessel seized a Spanish trawler at gunpoint and arrested the captain and crew on charges of violating conservation standards.

18.   The Spanish trawlers last night were grouped around the Spanish naval patrol boat Vigia.

19.   The Vigia had been dispatched to the Grand Banks by Madrid in a symbolic show of force after Canada seized a Spanish trawler this month.

20.   The union had suspended all talks with Canada so long as the Spanish trawler was still captive.