1.   As reported previously, the trawler was a fishing boat operated by a school to teach Japanese high school students how to fish.

2.   The union had suspended all talks with Canada so long as the Spanish trawler was still captive.

3.   Trawlers are commercial fishing boats that drag large nets across the seabed.

4.   Factory trawlers are ships that catch fish and process them on-board so they are ready for market when the vessels return to shore.

5.   In Darwin, Australia, the launching ground for the peacekeeping mission, fishing trawlers were squeezed out by warships berthed three abreast.

6.   The trawler was about nine miles south of Oahu when the Greeneville burst from the ocean and ripped through its stern.

7.   A Spanish trawler was under escort to the western French port of La Rochelle on Sunday after fisheries inspectors found three tonnes of illegally caught hake on board.

8.   The Red Cross stressed in its radio message that the trawler was a private boat.

9.   Police said the trawlers were on their way to Italy and added the passengers were now being questioned.

10.   Solana said the reintroduction of visas for visiting Canadians, first threatened when the trawler Estai was seized by Canada earlier this month, would become law within days.