1. Armed men have abducted an owner of fishing trawlers in the southern Philippines, where government troops were searching for other recent kidnap victims, police said Sunday. 2. Before the Rainbow Warrior II, a former fishing trawler, leaves New Zealand waters on Wednesday it will sail by the underwater resting place of its sabotaged namesake. 3. Deep sea corals in the Atlantic are being damaged by fishing trawlers which drag heavy chains over the reefs, WWF said. 4. Government to cut the price of diesel oil for fishing trawlers. 5. Hundreds of fishing trawlers were lost. 6. In recent months, tension between the two nations over the matter has worsened as a result of several incidents involving Japanese fishing trawlers in the area. 7. Last week, two Thai fishing trawlers were seized for poaching and their nine crew members were jailed when they failed to pay fines imposed by a court. 8. On Friday, the government asked relief boats and fishing trawlers to stay close to the coast for a day until the strong winds subside. 9. Spanish fishing trawlers reappeared last week on the nose of the Grand Banks. 10. The interim agreement, struck in mid-April, calls for the posting of independent observers on European fishing trawlers in the North Atlantic and satellite tracking of the boats. |