2005-10-01-

October 2005
2005-09-01- 2005-11-01-
==Significant world news==
*4 October - One million French transportation workers and teachers hold a nationwide strike in opposition to the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's economic and labor policies.
*5 October - Hurricane Stan strikes Mexico and Central America.
*8 October - Kashmir earthquake: 7.6 on the Richter scale.
*10 October - Following the German federal election, 2005, Christian Democrat Angela Merkel will become the next Chancellor of Germany, replacing Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder.
*13 October - H5N1 avian influenza virus is confirmed in dead birds found in Turkey
*15 October -
**The Iraqi people go to the polls to vote on whether to approve the proposed constitution.
**The Brazilian government extends a state of emergency to cover the whole of Amazonas, the country's largest state, following a severe drought which has seen many rivers and lakes dry up.
**Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika declared a national disaster due to the worsening food shortages.
*17 October -
**Jens Stoltenberg takes over as the Prime Minister of Norway after Kjell Magne Bondevik.
**Helen Clark announces the formation of her third Labour-led Government in New Zealand.
*24 October - Hurricane Wilma hits South Florida. 
*26 October - H5N1 bird flu confirmed to have reached Croatia.
*30 October - Hurricane Beta, the first hurricane of that name, approaches Nicaragua and Honduras.
==Fisheries news==
*Essays and other stuff on fisheries management, written by M.Ben-Yami, can be read and downloaded at: www.benyami.org.
*24 October - two Russian fishing trawlers are taken into custody by the Norwegian Coast Guard after allegedly having done illegal reloading of their vessels near the Norwegian Sea island of Bjørnøya.
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