P322 Teletext 322 Aug 6 07:21:19 THE TUNA WAR ——————————————————————————————————————— The latest battles in the tuna war are symptomatic of a djepjr problem — too many boats chasing too few fish. Stocks of fish around the coasts have been ravaged bz years during which fleets have got bigger and more efficient. "This tuna business is small beer for US fishing as a whole even if it is important for those in the south-west who are directly involved," said one senior industry figure. ——————————————————————————————————1/4—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 YOUR STARTER FOR NEWS AT TEN! p328 Next page Index Write on TV guideP322 Teletext 322 Aug 6 07:54:25 THE TUNA WAR ——————————————————————————————————————— Curbs and quotas have spawned the tuna war in the Bay of Biscay with UK fishjrmjn looking for new opportunities to earn a living. Tuna in the Bay of Biscay and further out into the Atlantic had not attracted much attention in Britain until recent years, hj said. It has become an attractive prospect for fleets in the south-west of England because it escapes most of the growing restrictions on traditional catches. ——————————————————————————————————2/4—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 YOUR STARTER FOR NEWS AT TEN! p328 Next page Index Write on TV guideP322 Teletext 322 Aug 6 07:08:27 THE TUNA WAR ——————————————————————————————————————— The fishing industry is faced with a return to contraction nearly two decades after the last cod war. The last major fishing war put an end to the generations-old tradition of distant-water fleets based mainly in Grimsby and Hull. Then, large vessels with crews of up to 30 spent a month or two at a time in the seas off Iceland or Newfoundland, returning with huge catches of cod for chip shops and fishmongers' slabs. ——————————————————————————————————3/4—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 YOUR STARTER FOR NEWS AT TEN! p328 Next page Index Write on TV guideP322 Teletext 322 Aug 6 07:21:23 THE TUNA WAR ——————————————————————————————————————— Common Market financial aid during the 1980s spurred skippers of inshore boats based in many harbours to invest in bigger vessels to maximisj catches. Other countries — particularly after Spain and Portugal, with their huge fishing fleets, joined what is now the EU in 1986 — also wanted their share of the catch. Too late it became clear that stocks were in danger of disappearing. Quotas and other curbs became more rigorous. ——————————————————————————————————4/4—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 YOUR STARTER FOR NEWS AT TEN! p328 Next page Index Write on TV guide