Cannabis is catch of the day for Irish trawler
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An Irish trawler scooped up an unusual catch of cannabis worth up to 1.4 million euros (1.9 million dollars) in the Atlantic, customs officials said Tuesday.
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Bales of a record haul of cocaine spilled from a smuggling boat that capsized off the coast of Ireland are washing up on the shores of County Cork, officials said Tuesday.
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By PAT FLANAGAN  THOUSANDS of tonnes of raw sewage are polluting Ireland's historic fishing rivers and holiday resorts, it was revealed yesterday.   Almost a fifth of human waste is discharged with little or no treatment, the Environmental Protection Agency disclosed.
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SCOTLANDâS beleaguered white-fish fleet was last night facing another end-of-year battle for economic survival in the face of a European Commission demand for trawling to be outlawed in more than 10,000 square miles of the North Sea and west-coast waters
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Irish fisherman have reacted cautiously to new EU fishing quotas negotiated during talks in Brussels. EU fisheries ministers agreed that cod-fishing grounds in the Irish Sea, North Sea and west of Scotland should remain open.
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A large police operation is under way in the west of Ireland to allow construction  of a gas terminal to resume.
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BBC Northern Ireland rural affairs correspondent Martin Cassidy looks at the renewed strength of mussel fishing in Belfast Lough.
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LAZARAT, Albania  - Cannabis plants lay stacked up   like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote   Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years   ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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Bumper cannabis crops  -  and tighter border controls  -  are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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The Timaru Rowing Club's weed problems in Saltwater Creek will not be easily solved.   Environment Canterbury (Ecan) has no statutory obligation to clear the weed unless it becomes a flood issue.
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Thousands of Irish smokers have successfully quit the habit since the smoking ban in pubs was introduced, according to a survey today.
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BRUNSWICK - Georgia waters will open for the commercial and recreational harvest of food shrimp at 6 a.m. today.  Trawlers will be allowed to operate in the state's territorial waters extending three miles offshore.
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Cod, once a staple of the British diet, could be fished close to extinction, environmentalists warned yesterday. They said a deal keeping North Sea fishing grounds open to trawlers was &quot;scandalous&quot;.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Last year, Tony Doyle had harvested his 9,000-kilogram quota of crab from Newfoundland's Conception Bay by the beginning of July.
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More cannabis is being grown in Wales and the numbers of under-16s using the drug is rising, a BBC Wales investigation reveals.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A middle-aged New Zealand woman rang police to report a theft of cannabis plants she had been growing in buckets at her North Island home, local media reported Saturday.
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It is to become an offence in Northern Ireland to cruise town and city streets looking for prostitutes.