31.   Officials said the new quotas will be divided among the seven nations.

32.   Russia is protesting at a new quota agreement to limit fishing in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, its senior negotiator said Friday.

33.   The delay in the issuance of new quotas has been a problem for these companies in the smooth running their business in the republic.

34.   The governments of Japan and Australia launched a joint attack Monday on a U.S. plan to impose new quotas on steel imports.

35.   The Fisheries Ministry said the new quota was needed because it initially overestimated the minke whale population off its coast.

36.   The new quota has yet to be determined.

37.   The new quota, announced Wednesday by Fisheries Minister David Anderson, had been recommended by a conservation council that included scientists and fishermen.

38.   The state-run newspaper Vietnam News cited the ministry of agriculture as saying new quotas would continue to be issued to exporters in an effort to boost revenue.

39.   And it was the US poultry industry that suffered first when Washington introduced tough new quotas on Russian steel imports this year.

40.   The two sides failed last month to agree on how to divide the new quota.