The small fisheries in the southwestern 

 Atlantic around the Falkland Islands will 

 probably continue, but the number of Polish 

 vessels allowed to fish there will be minimal. 

 The Antarctic krill resources are still 

 abundant, but it remains to be seen is the 

 economics of fishing in this distant ground 

 will permit its continuation. 



The Polish fishery managers realize that 

 the future potential for the Polish high-seas 

 fleet is at best limited and, at worst, 

 threatened. They have begun a program of 

 fleet reduction which has accelerated in recent 

 years. An estimated 50 Polish vessels have 

 recently been sold, scrapped, or reflagged. 

 Many of these vessels were aged and 

 unprofitable. If this program continues at the 

 current pace, the Polish high-seas fleet will 

 not only become "younger", but also more 

 efficient and therefore more profitable. 

 Recent information indicates that two our of 

 three Polish high-seas fishing companies are 

 in dire straits as their deficits keep increasing 

 from year to year. It is not impossible that 

 they will declare bankruptcy in the near 

 future. One of them, the ODRA, has recently 

 decommissioned one third of its high-seas 

 fleet to try to survive. 



One bright spot in this otherwise gloomy 

 picture is the hard currency which the Polish 

 high-seas fishermen have recently earned. In 

 the past, these monies went to the Polish 

 treasury, but if in the future the privatization 

 of the fishing companies allows them to retain 

 these earnings, they will at least be able to 

 replace aged vessels with a few modern 

 vessels which could operate profitably. 



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