BC FISH TALKS/EU, Canada try to fill last gaps in fish accord

By Peter Blackburn

BRUSSELS, April 7 (Reuter) The European Commission and

Canada were due to resume talks on Friday to overcome Spanish

suspicions and complete a draft accord to end a bitter fisheries

row in the North Atlantic.

Fisheries Commissioner Emma Bonino hinted on Thursday that

after an "accident" in which a Canadian patrol boat cut the nets

of a Spanish trawler off Newfoundland on Wednesday, hopes had

faded of finalising the accord by Monday.

But her spokesman told a news briefing on Friday talks were

expected to resume later in the day and continue over the

weekend in the hope of finalising a text which EU foreign