1.   The amendments had been introduced to put a stop to quota hopping whereby foreign vessels flying the British flag were plundering fishing quotas.

2.   Overfishing by foreign vessels and toxic waste dumping were also major causes for concern at their annual summit.

3.   As a matter of practice, foreign vessels and aircraft, whether military of commercial, generally operate freely in the South China Sea.

4.   Black Ships refers to foreign vessels that were excluded from Japan until the treaty was signed.

5.   But interference with foreign vessels is an extremely serious violation of international law.

6.   Canadian officals also warned that any other foreign vessels caught fishing for turbot, also known as Greenland halibut, would be similarly seized.

7.   China had objected to the idea of having foreign vessels travel back and forth on the grounds that trade between Taiwan and China would be domestic.

8.   In those days, massive foreign vessels camped off the US coast for weeks at a time and depleted herring and mackerel stocks.

9.   Klebanov repeated that Russia believes that a collision with a foreign vessel caused the sinking, rejecting American reports that a torpedo exploded inside the sub.