Table 1. Romania. Fishing fleet, by 

 selected vessel capacity: 1993. 



Capacity 



Number GRT Average GRT 



100-200 GRT 

 Above 500 GRT 

 TOTAL 



7 

 50 

 57 



863 

 220.669 

 221.532 



123 

 4,413 

 3.886 



Source U S. Navy. Office of Naval 

 Intelligence. 27 July 1993, 



proclaimed. This meant the 



nationalization of the industry, 



including the small Black Sea 

 fisheries. 



After the December 1989 

 revolution toppled the Ceausescu 

 dictatorship, the Romanian fishing 

 industry became independent of 

 government control and had to 

 restructure itself to survive. Since 

 Ceausescu's fall, the Romanian 

 Government has not extended any 

 financial assistance to its fishing 

 industry.' 



II. FISHING FLEET 



A. High-seas Fishing Fleet 



Romania began to build up its high-seas 

 fleet rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s 

 (appendix 1 and figure 1). Its first vessels 

 were 2 stern trawlers of the CONSTANTA 

 class -- named Constanta and Galati - 

 purchased from Japan in 1964; one of these 

 original trawlers (Constanta) is still part of 

 the fleet today. The growth of the high-seas 

 fleet was stimulated from 1971-1975 by a 

 major government program to expand 

 Romanian food production industries which 

 earmarked 20 percent of all investment funds. 



Number of vessels 



□Support 

 □ Fishing 



i-^at 



4im£m 



yy 



1 — I — I — I — I — I — I — I — I — I — I I r 



'^^ 



Figure 1. Romania. High-seas fishing fleet. 1975-92. 



The Romanian fishing fleet register 

 consisted of 57 units in July 1993. Of this 

 total, 7 vessels were small (average tonnage 

 was 123 gross registered tons (GRT)) and 

 were thus probably deployed in the Black Sea 

 fisheries (table 1). The other 50 vessels were 

 large fishing trawlers and refrigerated fishery 

 transports and baseships with a total gross 

 tonnage of over 220,000 tons; they are 

 capable of operating on distant-water fishing 

 grounds. 



or about US$30 million annually, for fisheries 

 development.- By 1973, the fleet had 

 increased considerably to 20 stern trawlers, 

 supported by 4 refrigerated transports, all of 

 which were purchased in Eastern Europe.^ 



The Romanian high-seas trawler fleet 

 continued increasing until the mid-1980s when 

 it consisted of over 40 large stern factory 

 trawlers (appendix 2). This number did not 

 increase much during the next decade; in 



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