vessel was assigned to fish for cod in the North 

 Atlantic and off Eastern Greenland.^* In 1993, the 

 Russian Far East ordered a series of 13 longliners to 

 be built in West German shipyards. The third vessel 

 in the series was launched by the Elbewerft 

 Boizenburg GmbH shipyard in August 1993." The 

 shipyard has recently been privatised and is looking 

 to modernise Russian vessels. 



6. International Agreements 



The Federal Republic of Germany is a member 

 of the European Community, delegating to the EC the 

 authority to negotiate access and fishing quotas in 

 foreign EEZs. FRG vessels traditionally share in 

 agreements negotiated with Greenland, the Faroe 

 Islands, Norway, and Sweden. 



7. Fleet Dispersal Plans 



An Icelandic Company, Mtgerdarfelag 

 Akureyringa, a member of the Icelandic Freezing 

 Plants Corporation, recently purchased 8 groundfish 

 trawlers belonging to the Mecklenberger 

 Hochseefischerei fleet in the former East German 

 port of Rostock. Mtgerdarfelag Akureyringa 

 purchased a 60-percent interest in the vessels. The 

 State of Mecklenberger controls 25.1 percent of the 

 new corporation, Rostock harbor owns 10 percent, 

 and the town of Rostock controls 4.9 percent. The 

 arrangement allows the vessels to land fish in 

 Icelandic ports. The vessels will fish for oceanic 

 redfish, which is popular in the German market, off 

 the southwestern coast of Iceland .^^ 



The outlook for the FRG high-seas fleet is for 

 the fleet to slowly continue to decline, although some 

 modem vessels may be added in the coming years. 

 The addition of several super-trawlers designed to 

 fish herring and mackerel did not spur a rebirth in 

 German fisheries. Likewise, the addition of the 

 former GDR fishing fleet had only a limited impact 

 on German fisheries; most of the former-GDR fleet 

 has been sold or scrapped. The FRG does not appear 

 to be a major player in high-seas fisheries and this is 

 unlikely to change in the next few years. 



The supertrawlers Jan Maria, the Annie Hillina, 

 and the Gerda Maria are designed to fish for non- 

 quota fish (mackerel and horse mackerel) and herring 

 on the high-seas. These vessels are owned by 



Doggerbank Seefischerei, a wholly-owned subsidiary 

 of the Dutch Parlevliet company. Parlevliet & van 

 der Plas BV also own the Dirk Diederick and the 

 Dirk Dirk, some of the largest supertrawlers in the 

 world also designed to fish for mackerel, horse 

 mackerel and herring. This one company, operating 

 these 5 vessels, is capable of fishing for pelagic 

 species anywhere in the world. 



SOURCES 



Allgemeine Fischwirtschaftszeitung , February 

 1986 



Burbach, Rolf and Ingo Fiedler, "The German 

 Fishing Fleet on 3 1 . 12. 1991 , " Annual Report on 

 German Fisheries, 1991/92, Federal Ministry of 

 Food Agriculture and Forestry, in cooperation 

 with the Federal Statistical Office, Boim, 

 December 1992. 



Eurofish Report, various reports. 



Fisch International, various issues. 



Fishing News International, various reports. 



Folsom, William B."The Federal Republic of 

 Germany's Fisheries, 1989," International 

 Fisheries Report, IFR-90/89, National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of 

 Commerce, December 14, 1990 



Hjul, Peter. The Stem Trawler, Fishing News 

 (Books) Ltd., London, 1972. 



McFeeters, Brian D. "Germany's Fisheries 

 Market," International Fisheries Report, IFR- 

 89/98, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

 December 1, 1989. 



Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden; Aussenhandel 

 nach Waren und Landren cited in European 

 Supplies Bulletin, Sea Fish Industries Authority, 

 United Kingdom 



U.S. Embassy, Bonn, various reports. 



World Fishing, various reports. 



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