New Zealand, and obtain logistical support 

 for its operations in the nearby fishing 

 grounds of Australia and Oceania." 



North Korea (Democratic Peoples Republic 

 of Korea, or DPRK): in November 1992, 

 during the sixth meeting of the DPRK-Russian 

 Joint Committee on Cooperation in Fisheries 

 in Pyongyang, a bilateral fisheries cooperation 

 agreement was signed between the Director of 

 the DPRK General Bureau for Pelagic 

 Fisheries of the State Fisheries Commission, 

 Han Yong-on, and the Director of the Far 

 Eastern Fisheries Administration 

 (DALRYBA) of the Russian Committee on 

 Fisheries, Yuriy I. Moskaltsov/" The details 

 of this agreement are not known. 



In July 1989, a joint venture was 

 reportedly established between an unnamed 

 fishery collective (kolkhoz) in Primorskii Krai 

 and an unspecified North Korean company to 

 harvest and market sea urchin.*' 



In 1990, the Soviets became irritated by 

 the fact that North Korean vessels not only 

 fished illegally in areas of the Sea of 

 Okhotsk and off Kamchatka, but also sold a 

 part of their catch quota, mostly Alaska 

 pollock, to Japanese vessels and even allowed 

 them to fly the North Korean flag to harvest 

 the fish. In May 1990, Soviet enforcement 

 patrols reportedly seized 12 Japanese vessels 

 disguised as North Korean vessels. The 

 Soviets fined and confiscated the vessels and 

 arrested the crews. ^- 



In February 1991, a South Korean source 

 alleged that at the bilateral fishery talks, the 

 Soviets refused to allocate any quota to the 

 North Koreans, but would allow them to 

 catch 30,000 t of Alaska pollock for a fee. 

 The North Koreans, however, were allowed 

 to sell their quota to other parties (presumably 



the Japanese) and, in addition, were allocated 

 30,000 t of sardines so that the Korean 

 vessels could remain deployed in Soviet 

 waters and their fishermen employed.**'' It is 

 impossible to verify this information and it is 

 reported here as relata refero. 



In 1992, Russia officially decreased the 

 North Korean fishing quota in the Russian 

 Northwest Pacific fishery to only 60,000 t of 

 fish, a major drop from the 200,000 t that the 

 Koreans previously received.*^ 



In February 1993, the fishing association 

 DALMOREPRODUKT of Vladivostok 

 established a joint venture with the small 

 North Korean town of Simpho. 

 DALMOREPRODUKT will provide raw fish 

 and cans to a fish-processing factory in 

 Simpho (which was earlier modernized with 

 Russian equipment) and the finished product 

 will be sold to "Sadko", a Russian-French J/V 

 which will market it in Western Europe.**^ 



Republic of Korea (South Korea, or ROK): 



In February 1992, representatives from the 

 ROK and Russia signed a bilateral agreement 

 in Seoul regulating fishing in the Sea of 

 Okhotsk. In exchange for 30,000 metric tons 

 of squid, pollock, and saury caught in Russian 

 waters, Korea will supply Russia with the 

 same quantity of mackerel, scad, and 

 sardines, or it will provide Russian vessels 

 with supplies and technical support.*'*' 



The ROK and the Russian Federation 

 signed another bilateral fisheries agreement in 

 September 1992. Under this agreement, each 

 side is granted access to the other's waters; 

 joint ventures are encouraged in fishing, 

 processing, and aquaculture. Joint resource 

 assessment research is also being planned. In 

 particular, Russian officials hope for ROK 

 investment in onshore processing and cold 



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