98. Pari (Sofia), 12 May 1993. 



99. Faroese Statistical Bulletin, May 1993. 



100. TASS News Agency (Moscow), 24 February 1992; and Fishing News International, May 1992. 



101. Diplotnaticheskii Vestnik (Moscow), No. 3-4, February 1993. 



102. Interfax News Agency (Moscow), 16 February 1993; and Federatsiya (Moscow), No. 35, 30 March 1993, 

 p.7. 



103. Eurofish Report, 25 February 1993. 



104. Fishing News International, October 1992. 



105. The agreement entered into force on 3 February 1978. It remains in force automatically for successive 5-year 

 periods unless one of the contracting parties advises the other, in writing, 6 months prior to the expiration of the 

 agreement, that it wants to withdraw. 



106. Sbomik Dvukhstoronnikh Soglashenyi SSSR po Voprosam Rybnogo Khoziayaistva, Ryboluvstva i 

 Rybokhoziaystvennikh Issledovanyi. VNIRO (Moscow), 1987. 



107. This amount will be reduced by 50,000 t for each year of the 3-year agreement. 



108. La Peche Maritime, October 1992, p. 459. 



109. During 1986-1988, the Soviet Union and Portugal harvested 80 percent of the Cape hake catch off Southwest 

 Africa, while tlie Soviet Union, East European high-seas fishing fleets of Romania, Bulgaria, and Poland, in addition 

 to Cuba and Spain, together harvested 78 percent of the horse mackerel catch. The fishery in this region is 

 regulated by the International Commission for the Southeast Atlantic Fisheries (ICSEAF). 



1 10. U.S. Embassy, Windhoek, 23 April and 15 June 1993. The Russian stem factory trawlers dominate tlie mid- 

 water trawling industry. A total of 42 foreign and chartered vessels operate in this fishery which accounts for 76 

 percent of the gross registered tonnage (192,000 CRT) of the total tomiage allowed to fish off Namibia (240,000 

 CRT). The Embassy reports tliat "nearly the entire mid-water fleet appears to be ex-Soviet distant-water vessels" 

 mostly chartered by local companies. Tlie Namibian branch of SOVRYBFLOT which supervises the joint venture 

 arrangements fi-om Moscow has reportedly chartered 12 mid-water trawlers. 



111. U.S. Embassy, Lagos, 2 July 1993. Russia is no exception, Nigeria also has not negotiated access agreements 

 with any other of the major high-seas fishing powers (Japan, Taiwan, ROK, EC, etc.). 



112. U.S. Embassy, Sanaa, 20 March 1992. 



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