31.   A EU official in Brussels said Saturday tat negotiations to end the battle over fishing rights would be endangered by any new action against Spanish boats.

32.   A Canadian court on Sunday released on bail the captain of a Spanish fishing trawler caught in a spiralling transatlantic dispute over North Atlantic fishing rights.

33.   A Canadian patrol vessel cut the nets of a Spanish turbot trawler Sunday in a new escalation of the trans-Atlantic fight over fishing rights.

34.   A gun battle over fishing rights between Vietnamese and Thai patrol boats killed two Vietnamese border policemen in June.

35.   A dispute over fishing rights between two former Soviet republics in the Baltics has flared after Estonian border guards detained a Latvian boat in the Gulf of Riga.

36.   A dispute over fishing rights in one area of the Gulf of Thailand sparked a half-hour gun battle between Vietnamese and Thai naval boats last March.

37.   A new super-trawler has been denied fishing rights off Chile because of fears that it would strip the ocean of resources.

38.   A senior Russian government official said on Wednesday that Russia might offer to sell fishing rights to Japanese near the disputed Kuril Islands.

39.   A widely anticipated accord between Taipei and Beijing stumbled on negotiations over fishing rights, and only two of three expected agreements were ready early Thursday.

40.   After a tempestuous fortnight of quarrels over fishing rights in the North Atlantic, Canada and the European Union on Monday turned to quiet diplomacy.