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	Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - Neptune's Navy
		Coast Guard vessel approaches to three miles, U.S. warship departs at 200 mile limit.
		Norwegian Coast Guard vessel continues to escort the ship.
		The Coast Guard vessel is replaced by the warship K/V Andenes.
	www.seashepherd.org /fleet/fleet_whales_forever_official_report.html (2232 words)

	Royal Norwegian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Norwegian Navy (often abbreviated as RNoN) is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations.
		Coast Guard vessels are given the prefix "KV" for KystVakt in Norwegian and "NoCGV" for Norwegian Coast Guard Vessel in English.
		The history of the Norwegian navy is long, and goes back to the leidang which was first established by King Håkon the Good on Gulating in 955.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Norwegian_Navy (1059 words)

	Norwegian Coast Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norwegian Coast Guard, or Kystvakten in Norwegian, is a part of the Royal Norwegian Navy, but has separate vessels, many of which are purpose-built.
		All coast guard vessels have the prefix KV.
		Norway's exclusive economic zone, the Coast Guard's area of responsibility, is about 2.2 million square kilometers, the largest in Western Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_Coast_Guard (172 words)

	Russian sabre rattling in Barents Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two Norwegians from the Coast Guard vessel KV Tromsø, an officer and a crew member, were still on board when the Elektron refused to follow the Norwegian Coast Guard's orders to proceed to the Norwegian port of Tromsø.
		The two Norwegians are still aboard the vessel, and the situation is seen as a clear violation of good conduct between the two neighbouring nations.
		Norwegian officials said in an interview with the Norwegian broadcaster NRK that this was not the first violation of the fishing regulations by this Russian ship, and the official was also quoted as saying we hope to never see the ship in these waters again.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /1004/news/russian.html?1129681540953 (487 words)

	Forsvarsnett: In English
		The Norwegian Coast Guard carries out surveillance and control of the inner leads, in the territorial waters, in the Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone, in the Fishery Protection Zone around Svalbard, in the Fishery Zone around Jan Mayen and on the continental shelf.
		The Norwegian Coast Guard is integrated in the Norwegian Armed Forces, and thus under the Minister of Defence.
		The operation area for the Norwegian Coast Guard is the territorial waters, the EEZ and the continental shelf, and international areas where Norway has commitments.
	www.mil.no /sjo/kv/start/english (668 words)

	Norwaves Volume 2, Number 23, 1994
		Ludvigsen feels the Coast Guard and the police made fools of themselves yesterday, and has called for the resignation of the northern Coast Guard squadron chief and the acting chief of police in Bodoe.
		Watson's actions were insane, a reaction that could have led to injury or loss of life was not justified," said the northern Coast Guard squadron chief, Commander SG Torstein Myhre, as he dismissed criticism of the Coast Guard and the police.
		According to the North Sea Agreement, the Norwegian farming sector was to have reduced nitrogen runoff by 44 per cent from 1985 to 1995.
	www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume2_1994/v2nw23.html (4135 words)

	Arrested Russian fishing trawler flees for home with two detained Norwegian Coast Guard inspectors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two Norwegians from the Coast Guard vessel KV Tromsø, an officer and a crew member—whose names have not been released by authorities—were still on board when the Elektron refused to follow the Norwegian Coast Guard's orders to proceed to the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø.
		The Russian trawler Elektron had been stopped and boarded by the Norwegian Coast Guard on Saturday morning in the Svalbard Archipelago in the Barents Sea, near the border of an area where fishing rights are between Russia and Norway are disputed.
		The Norwegian Coast Guard had declared the Russian trawler formally under arrest, and the trawler initially accepted the arrest order, according to Steve Olsen, squadron chief for the Coast Guard's northern division of Kystvakt Nord.
	bellona.no /bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/nuke_industry/co-operation/40320 (953 words)

	Norwaves Volume 2, Number 24, 1994
		The Coast Guard and the police have now seized four of the eight inflatables used by Greenpeace to obstruct whaling operations on the Egersund Bank.
		NORWEGIAN ECONOMY SURGES (Aftenposten) The Norwegian economy has taken an upswing, according to the half- yearly foreign trade statistics, and demand for goods in Norway is rising substantially.
		NEW GUARDS IN NATIONAL GALLERY (Aftenposten) The theft of the Munch painting, "The Scream", from the National Gallery in February, and the latest scandal involving a skylight that was left open at night, will have consequences for Verdisikring, the company in charge of security at the National Gallery.
	www.norwaves.com /norwaves/Volume2_1994/v2nw24.html (4136 words)

	Coast Guard continues search for missing pilot and plane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Coast Guard is taking penalty action against the cruise ship Norwegian Sky for discharging treated sewage in the waters of Southeast Alaska on May 3, 2001.
		Coast Guard investigators boarded the cruise ship on May 4, 2001 while it was docked in Ketchikan in order to oversee sample collections, perform an environmental examination, and conduct an investigation into the discharge.
		The operation directs Coast Guard marine inspectors as well as aircraft, station, and cutter crews to monitor cruise ship operations for compliance with federal safety and environmental laws and regulations, including the recently enacted Public Law 106-554.
	www.uscg.mil /d17/allnews/news01/07001.htm (352 words)

	NORWEGIAN WHALING IS A WASTEFUL PRACTICE, DENOUNCES GREENPEACE
		After having flensed and parted the whales, the whalers are now continuing the hunt while three Norwegian coast guard ships are patrolling the area.
		Greenpeace has managed to document the discarding of the whale carcasses, despite attempts from the Norwegian cost guard to interfere with the filming of the whalers waste disposal.
		On Saturday, during a reckless and irresponsible manoeuvre by the Norwegian coast guard patrol, a Greenpeace activist got seriously injured and is still in hospital in Stavanger, Norway.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/oceans/1999jun15.html (354 words)

	Coast Guard in Russian court
		While Norwegian authorities struggle to maintain salmon exports to Russia, the Norwegian Coast Guard is testifying in a Russian court for the first time, against a Russian trawler captain accused of illegal fishing off Svalbard and kidnapping.
		Norwegian inspectors Richard Storås (left) and Henning Thune (in blue helmet) were ultimately transferred to a Norwegian vessel after their involuntary trip into Russian territory.
		Five representatives of the Norwegian Coast Guard are in court, and Norway's consul in Murmansk calls it a test of how the Russian legal system views what Norway considers to be environmental crime in the Barents.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article1463911.ece?service=print (436 words)

	Russian Fishermen Caught Norwegian Inspectors - Kommersant Moscow
		The crew of the Russian trawler Electron, which was arrested by Norwegian coast guard, was trying to use the stormy sea conditions and break to the Russian territorial waters.
		The representatives of the Norwegians coast guard did not realize at first that the Russian fishermen were escaping after taking two inspectors as hostages.
		Journalists learned from the Norwegian coast guard service that the trawler would not be attacked or shot at: “We are hoping that the crew would cooperate with authorities,” the Norwegians said.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?idr=1&id=618658 (636 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		All coast guard vessels have the prefix KV (KystVakt).
		The flag of the Coast Guard is the international inspection pennant as ratified by the Hague Convention of 1882.
		The Coast Guard was established 1 April 1977.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Norwegian_Coast_Guard (197 words)

	FNI project: Challenges for the Norwegian Coast Guard in the North
		First, the Coast Guard's past role and future room for manoeuvre in the Fishery Protection Zone around Svalbard are discussed.
		Gentle enforcement of fishery regulations has in recent years been replaced by open confrontation, and the Coast Guard's need to balance flexibility and communication with firm enforcement is at the heart of the discussion.
		The consequences for the Coast Guard of new petroleum activities and regulation schemes are discussed in this case study.
	www.fni.no /projects/norwegian_coast_guard.html (246 words)

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		Second, the Norwegians have strict quotas on whales taken in, but not on the harpoons that were shot.
		Prior to their arrival off the coast of Norway, the Sea Shepherds released not one, but two press statements on July 1 and July 5, 1994 saying they were headed for Norwegian waters.
		As it was, the Norwegians were very generous on their initial approach to the situation.
	www.off-road.com /green/ss_lies.txt (1850 words)

	ABC News: Russian Trawler Returns to Its Own Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this picture issued by the Norwegian Coast Guard the Russian trawler Electron, with two Norwegian fisheries inspectors on board, is seen fleeing the Norwegian coast guard off Norway's Arctic coast, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005.
		Norway's coast guard intercepted the Elektron trawler on Saturday for alleged fisheries violations in Norwegian protected waters and it began to follow the cutter to port as ordered.
		The trawler, Elektron, had been seized Saturday by a Norwegian Coast Guard vessel for alleged fisheries violations, but it fled the cutter that was escorting it to port and headed instead for Russian waters.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1230149&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (433 words)

	U.S. Coast Guard Firsts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On 17 December 1951 President Harry Truman presented the Collier Trophy to the Coast Guard, the Department of Defense and the "helicopter industry" in a joint award, citing "outstanding development and use of rotary-winged aircraft for air rescue operations." Coast Guard commandant VADM Merlin O'Neill accepted the trophy for the Coast Guard.
		The first environmental protection mission assigned to the Coast Guard came in 1822 when Congress created a timber reserve for Navy shipbuilding and authorized the President to use whatever force was necessary to prevent cutting of live oak on public lands.
		Coast Guard attorney LCDR Robert W. Bruce, Jr., became the first member of the armed forces to argue a case before the Supreme Court in uniform when he represented the Coast Guard in Solorio vs. United States on 24 February 1987.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/FirstsIndex.html (10931 words)

	Forsvarsnett: Weeks 40 - 42: Drama in the Barents Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Norwegian Coast Guard vessel Tromsø trailed the trawler through the disputed zone and into the Russian economic zone of the Barents on Monday.
		But because of bad weather in the area, the Coast Guard was not able to physically stop the trawler.
		The former Mayor of Bergen, Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen (55) from The Norwegian Labour Party (Ap) is the new Minister of Defence in the new red-green government.
	www.mil.no /languages/english/start/article.jhtml?articleID=110161 (1268 words)

	WHALERS OPEN FIRE AT GREENPEACE BOAT AS NORWEGIAN COAST GUARD WATCHES
		The two Norwegian Coast Guard ships on location watched passively as the inflatable was hit by the bullet.
		While the Coast Guard did not take any action against the boat firing at Greenpeace activists, it did arrest the Greenpeace ship MV Sirius.
		The fact that whale meat consumption is at an all time low has caused the whalers to put pressure on the Norwegian Government to allow the export of whale products, despite the international trade ban by CITES (1).
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/oceans/1999jul12.html (501 words)

	news - EADS naval radars equip Norwegian coast guard vessels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		EADS will supply the Norwegian Coast Guard with their very successful TRS-3D naval radar to improve surveillance of Norway’s coastal waters and to guide helicopters safely in extreme weather conditions.
		The new systems are intended to replace older equipment on board the coast guard vessels of the "Svalbard" class which are at present not capable of providing safe guidance for helicopters in all weather.
		On board the Norwegian Coast Guard vessels, the radar will be used in combination with the integrated IFF system MSSR 2000I which automatically transmits encrypted signals for identifying aircraft and vessels and intercepts and evaluates their response signal.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=72298 (702 words)

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		They are removed because units too small to be included in the game (coast guard and patrol vessels) have stopped and detained these ships.
		Perhaps there should be a limit on the number of rounds of naval combat (5 might be a good number) or perhaps naval units defending in a port should be allowed to withdraw after several rounds of combat have passed (maybe after 2 or 3 rounds).
		The Norwegian Surrender Table would be meaningless if the Norwegian player got the chance to intercept on GT Apr4.
	grognard.com /errata/invanor1.txt (983 words)

	EADS N.V. - EADS naval radars equip Norwegian coast guard vessels
		EADS will supply the Norwegian Coast Guard with their very successful TRS-3D naval radar to improve surveillance of Norway’s coastal waters and to guide helicopters safely in extreme weather conditions.
		The new systems are intended to replace older equipment on board the coast guard vessels of the "Svalbard" class which are at present not capable of providing safe guidance for helicopters in all weather.
		On board the Norwegian Coast Guard vessels, the radar will be used in combination with the integrated IFF system MSSR 2000I which automatically transmits encrypted signals for identifying aircraft and vessels and intercepts and evaluates their response signal.
	www.eads.net /web/printout/es/1024/content/400006/1/30/41304301.html/41253519_41253519/content/OF00000040950509/6/12/41076126.html (603 words)

	Press Release 99.07.13- Whales
		Norwegian police confiscated the inflatable with the bullet hole as well as most film and stills documentation of the event.
		First we get fired at and then we get arrested by the coast guard who looked on while we were getting shot at, said Mats Abrahamsson, on board the MV Sirius.
		A Norwegian member of parliament, Steinar Bastensen, who is known as an outspoken pro-whaling advocate in Norway participated in the hunt and was on board the vessel Kato.
	www.greenpeace.se /norway/english/3media/pr/990713.htm (521 words)

	Fish Wars thru the years \| The Agonist
		The trawler was escorted to a port of the Spitsbergen archipelago.
		On October 21, the Norwegian inspectors who had been taken hostage were transferred to a Norwegian coast guard vessel.
		The war for the right to fish at the Canadian coast was the first and the longest Fish War.
	agonist.org /story/2005/11/5/193144/094 (569 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe
		Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A Russian trawler that spent four days fleeing Norwegian coast guards after being stopped on suspicion of illegal fishing is back in home waters and under the control of a Russian frigate.
		Two Norwegian officials held on the trawler, the Elektron, since it was stopped Oct. 15 will be transferred to a Norwegian ship as soon as the weather permits, said Jon Espen Lien, a Bodoe, Norway-based armed forces spokesman at the Regional Headquarter North Norway, in a telephone interview today.
		Norwegian energy companies including Norsk Hydro ASA and Statoil ASA are seeking stakes in Russian Arctic oil and gas fields.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=auHP7dEkgIAU&refer=europe (395 words)

	NOSCA Seminars
		The seminar took place at the Norwegian Center for Marine Environment and Safety in Horten, which was the headquarters of the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (the Norwegian Coastal Administration), and in Bergen on the west coast of Norway
		Day one, June 11, was devoted to a presentation of the Norwegian Coastal Administration’s activities and Norwegian preparedness against acute pollution, including a tour of the Centre facilities.
		In the morning of the second day, we took us across the country to beautiful Bergen on the west coast, where seminar participants was been invited to visit the oil spill control units of two major Norwegian oil companies.
	www.nosca.no /seminars.htm (517 words)

	44ft Motor Lifeboats - Home Page
		The 44' MLB was designed by the U.S. Coast Guard, with work starting on the prototype (USCG 44300) in April 1961, which was completed on the 9 March 1962.
		The Canadian Coast Guard recived the USCG 44353 in 1966 and built a further 17.
		The Italian Coast Guard purchased the USCG 44337 and USCG 44338 while the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue and the Portuguese Institute for Lifesaving both built two boats.
	www.44mlb.com /44mlb-home.htm (617 words)

	Lance March 98 Cruise Report
		The R/V Lance left the harbour of the Norwegian Coast Guard in Sortland at 16:00 LST on the 13th of March 1998.
		As the VEINS cruises are conducted together with Norwegian Coast Guard half of the year, their activities were performed during the cruise.
		The Coastal Water, which was observed near the Norwegian coast November, was disappeared in March.
	www.ices.dk /ocean/project/veins/crinfo/la98mar/la98mar.htm (494 words)

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