31.   BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Fears of a trans-Atlantic trade war fade Thursday as Canada releases a captured Spanish trawler and the European Union drops threats of sanctions.

32.   But the two trawlers harrassed on Thursday had strayed too far from the main group of Spanish trawlers and patrol boats to be aided, the radio report said.

33.   But Thursday in Madrid, thousands of fisherman threw mackerel and eggs at the Canadian embassy to protest the action against Spanish trawlers in the North Atlantic.

34.   Canada is being sued for piracy and malicious prosecution over the armed arrest of a Spanish fishing trawler that led to an international agreement on turbot fishing.

35.   Canadian authorities cut the net of a Spanish trawler after the captain refused to allow Canadian officials to board.

36.   Canada detained the Spanish trawler last week as it was fishing in disputed waters off Newfoundland.

37.   Canada has cited the legislation to send Canadian patrol boats to police in international waters, seize a Spanish trawler and cut the nets of another.

38.   Canada is fed up and ready to take action against Spanish trawlers that continue to fish after the breakdown of talks in Brussels, says Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin.

39.   Canada released a Spanish trawler on Wednesday, defusing a tense diplomatic standoff with the European Union over fishing rights in international waters in the North Atlantic.

40.   Canadian authorities cut the net of the Spanish trawler Pescamaro Uno Sunday after the captain refused to allow Canadian officials to board.