Los Angeles - President Bill Clinton has been asked to intervene in a battle between environmentalists seeking to save an endangered species of sea lion and the US fishing industry, which claims that the protesters' legal action is costing the industry millions of dollars.
An injunction preventing fishing fleets from trawling in areas off the Alaskan coast has drawn the governor of Alaska into an angry row with environmentalists who say they have been forced to resort to the law to save a dying species.