The Spanish embassy in Ottawa, under the leadership of Ambassador Jose Luis Pardos, has been credited with having been one of the first embassies to make use of the Internet. It did so during the so-called Canada-Spain fish war. On March 9, 1995, the Canadians seized the Spanish trawler Estai in the north Atlantic just outside Canada’s exclusive economic zone. In it they found an illegal-sized net that had been used to catch small, immature, protected turbot. Canada defended its action as an effort against overfishing. The Spanish embassy in Ottawa put its information service “Si, Spain” on the Internet and countered the Canadian accusations by calling the use of force illegal with respect to traditional Spanish fishing rights at the Grand Banks. “Si, Spain” used tough, emotional language and even personally attacked Brian Robin, the Canadian minister of fisheries and oceans. This undertaking was an effort to reach beyond the government by contacting the Canadian public directly. According to Canadian observers, however, the effort did not succeed in mobilizing the Canadian public.