1.   McBurney and other Americans on the boat managed the processing of fish that the trawler caught.

2.   Fish such as plaice, traditionally caught by trawlers on the open sea, have disappeared, leaving smaller fish which cluster around coastal rocks to flourish.

3.   Spain and Portugal are the only EU nations whose trawlers catch turbot, or Greenland halibut, in the disputed area just outside Canadian waters off Newfoundland.

4.   Two trawlers caught a German submarine on Thursday off the southwest coast of England, the defence ministry said.