1.   A Canadian patrol vessel cut the nets of a Spanish turbot trawler Sunday in a new escalation of the trans-Atlantic fight over fishing rights.

2.   Canadian Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin said the navy ships frightened about one dozen Spanish turbot trawlers into pulling up their nets after the high-speed chase.

3.   Earlier in Ottawa, Tobin said Canadian patrol vessels scared about one dozen Spanish turbot trawlers into pulling up their nets with a high-speed chase of a Spanish ship.

4.   Spanish and Portuguese turbot trawlers that were fishing in international waters off Newfoundland have moved out after a warning from Ottawa, Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin said Tuesday.