The Red Ensign Conference, an annual event, which brings together in a series of meetings those British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, which have shipping registers and the UK Maritime and Coast Guard Agency, will be held for the first time in the Falkland Islands next month.
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Controversial hake quota allocation; Fishing exports generated USD 742 million up to December 2004.
Bolivian authorities have agreed to extend natural gas exports to Argentina until December this year, but left the price negotiation up to Bolivia's state oil company YPFB and private gas producers, newspapers reported.
A Briton, an Australian and a South African arrested and jailed for trampling and trashing an Argentine flag in a Ushuaia pub were released on bail but they had to hand in their passports and will have to remain in the city until February when the Judiciary resumes activities.
The Mediterranean, Caribbean and the South Atlantic have geological systems almost identical to the Sumatra fault line which caused the seaquake of last December 26, according to a French scientist interviewed by the Le Parisien-Dimanche.
Shadow fisheries spokes-man Owen Paterson said the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) should be scrapped as it had wrecked the marine environment, fishing communities and the industry.