- Title: Various: Fishing Dispute
- Date: 28th March 1995
- Summary: Canadian Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin said late on March 28 1995, that Canada and the European Union were making progress in talks about their fishing dispute. Emerging from meetings at the UN conference on world fish stocks, Tobin said progress had been made in talks being held in Brussels on how conservation of fish stocks might be achieved. Earlier Canada displayed an illegal 3,100-kilogramme fishing net said to belong to a Spanish trawler. Tobin told reporters the net was found in a concealed hold and had gaps far smaller than the legal limit of 5.2 inches (130 mm). It also contained an illegal liner with gaps of 2.96 inches (74 mm), he said. He said that no fish, even an immature one, could have escaped the net. Meanwhile, in Brussels on March 29, a Canadian official said progress was being made in the fish talks. Jacques Roy, the Canadian ambassador to the EU said the two sides had discussed measures to protect dwindling fish stocks off the Newfoundland coast. Some of the measures under discussion included a satellite tracking system, inspections and an observer programme, he said.
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