41.   They cut the nets of another.

42.   Yet the industrial trawlers cut our nets and even shoot at our people.

43.   French maritime authorities said the Greenpeace ship, together with three or four motor-boats, was attempting to cut the nets of four French trawlers.

44.   He insisted that had Canadian patrol vessels really tried to board the vessel and cut its nets, they would have succeeded.

45.   He insisted that, had Canadian patrol vessels really tried to board the vessel and cut its nets, they would have succeeded.

46.   Alain Laurec, a commission fishing expert, said the Estai cutting its net free was not automatically an indication it was acting illegally.

47.   Canada strenuously denies Spanish accusations that its coastguards had tried to board two vessels and cut the nets from the Jose Antonio Nores early Thursday.

48.   Canadian Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin denied European Union claims Thursday that Canadian patrol vessels had tried to board and to cut the nets of a Spanish trawler overnight.

49.   The Spanish trawlers refused to recognise the moratorium, prompting Canadian coastguards to seize one trawler and cut the nets from another.

50.   The second, the Pesca Mar Uno, was intercepted by patrol boats who used giant sheers to cut its nets free.