fishermen have used the Government incentives to 

 build more modem, efficient vessels with a larger 

 fishing capacity. 



rV. POTENTIAL FOR RELOCATING FLEETS 



The authors believe that the non-EC Nordic 

 countries will not relocate large numbers of high-seas 

 fishing vessels in the immediate future. This is 

 especially true for Norway; landings of cod and other 

 species have increased in Norway and shipyards are 

 busy building new high-seas fishing vessels^ for 

 Norwegian and other fishermen around the world. 

 There is always the possibility that small numbers of 

 vessels could be deployed in distant-water fisheries or 

 sold to fishermen in developing countries. 

 Norwegian and Icelandic fishermen, however, have 

 little experience with distant-water operations outside 

 the North Atlantic. The complexity of such 

 operations suggests that they are unlikely to shift their 

 operations beyond the North Atlantic in the 1990s. 

 Used vessel sales are another possibility. Such sales, 

 however, have not been extensive in the past, even 

 during periods of declining catches. Major 

 reductions in fishing effort could possibly heighten 

 interest in selling vessels. Icelandic and Norwegian 

 fishery officials and businessmen have shown some 

 interest in Latin American countries. Such interest, 

 however, centers more on the sales of new vessels 

 and equipment than the sale of used vessels. The 

 downturn in fishing off the Faroe Islands, however, 

 has impacted that nation's fisheries and may lead to 

 a reduction in the relatively small Faroese fishing 

 fleet. Some Faroese vessels might be sold to third 

 parties, possibly in South America or Russia. The 

 authors would not be surprised if as many as 30 

 Nordic vessels were sold in the next one to two 

 years. 



Cyprus, Malta, and Turkey operate only a few 

 large fishing vessels and are not expected to alter 

 their fishing patterns significantly in the next few 

 years. Cyprus and Malta, however, have become 

 centers for reflagging operations and this process 

 could continue in the future. 



An in-depth analysis of the fisheries of the 

 various non-EC fisheries follows in the "Country 

 Reports" which follow. These reports provide 

 greater information on present and future 

 developments for fleet deployment in the non-EC 

 countries of Western Europe. 



SOURCES 



World Fishing, March 1993 



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