Poland 



In Poland, the high-seas fishing industry 

 has better maintained its viability and, 

 although the catch has decreased somewhat 

 and the high-seas fleet shrunk, it continues 

 to be a powerful presence on the world 

 oceans. The future, however, could be 

 catastrophic. Almost the entire Polish high- 

 seas fleet has been concentrated in 1992 and 

 1993 in the international waters of the Sea 

 of Okhotsk, an enclave surrounded by the 

 Russian 200-mile zone. The Russian 

 Federation, claiming that the fishery 

 resources in that area, as well as their 

 originating stocks in the Russian zone, are 

 in danger of being overfished, are 

 demanding that the Poles, along with the 

 Koreans and the Chinese, stop fishing there. 

 The Poles (and others) refused to do so, 

 stressing that their fishery in international 

 waters is not subject to regulation by coastal 

 states. The Russians have, therefore, 

 exerted diplomatic pressure to declare a 

 moratorium on foreign fishing in the Sea of 

 Okhotsk. If this occurs, the Polish high- 

 seas fleet will have to rapidly find new 

 resources, or even more rapidly, reduce the 

 number of its vessels. 



Former Yugoslavia 



The Socialist Federative Republic of 

 Yugoslavia (SFRJ) ceased to exist in 1991 

 when Croatia and Slovenia declared their 

 independence. The country's fisheries have 

 been based on the Adriatic Sea except for a 

 brief, unsuccessful attempt in the 1970s to 

 enter the Atlantic tuna fishery. Most of the 

 2,000 kilometer-long Adriatic coast is now 

 in the Republic of Croatia. Currently, 

 Croatia and Slovenia have no high-seas 

 vessels and are not expected to expand into 

 high-seas fishing in the near future. 



