After talks with Europe failed and threats were ignored by Spanish fishing craft, Canada this week put punch to its pledge to seize foreign vessels caught harvesting turbot, also known as Greenland halibut, in international waters just beyond its 200-mile boundary.
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In another incident, Italian police sailed out to rescue several sick children who were aboard two fishing craft stranded off the coast of Brindisi-- one boat ran out of fuel, the other had mechanical problems, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
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The boat sighted only fishing craft until 26 August, when a large cargo vessel hove into sight at 09 : 44 . " Thresher " surfaced at 13 : 15 and headed for the nearest point on the enemy's zigzag course.
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Italian officials said more than 3, 500 Albanian refugees had reached Adriatic ports after a 50-mile ( 80 kilometers ) journey in leaky fishing craft and antiquated navy boats, raising concerns about a repeat of the mass arrivals from Europe's poorest country in 1991.
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Over the next three days and nights, she completed another difficult unloading operation complicated by the proximity of the enemy and the possibility of hostile fishing craft . She departed the Vietnamese coast on 3 August and, after a stop at Okinawa, arrived at Yokosuka on the 11th.
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Cheekpoint was then only used as a fishery harbour in the 19th and 20th centuries and became famous for a certain type of small fishing craft called the Cheekpoint Prong which was 17 ft . 6in . long with a 4 ft . 8in . beam and was normally rowed or paddled.
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Canadian navy vessels are still known as Her Majesty's Canadian Ships-- for instance, HMCS Fraser, the warship that seized two Massachusetts fishing craft on the high seas last July, in an act reminiscent of the high-handed Royal Navy antics that sparked the War of 1812.
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The harbor is crowded with reef-running boats as well as other tour and fishing craft . No longer the remote, rough-and-tumble port of only a few years ago, Cairns ( pronounced " Cans " ) is in danger of being stuffed like sardine cans.
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On 22 March during routine operations involving the inspection of fishing craft for contraband arms and supplies, the chief engineer, Chief Engineman Morris S . Beeson of the " Point Orient " was killed by ambush fire from three shore positions while attempting to board a sampan near Qui Nhon.
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A protest fleet of nearly 200 trawlers and other fishing craft that had formed a floating wall around the ferry Malaspina parted way shortly before 1 a . m . EDT, ending a standoff in which nearly 150 passengers _ most American tourists with no involvement in the dispute _ were effectively held hostage.
