4.5 



FORMER YUGOSLAVIA 



The Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) ceased to exist in June 1991 when 

 Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence. The country's fisheries were based on the 

 Adriatic Sea except for a brief, unsuccessful attempt in the 1970s to enter the Atlantic tuna 

 fishery. Most of its 2,000 kilometer-long Adriatic coast is now in the Republic of Croatia. The 

 former SFRJ has had no high-seas fishing vessels since 1982. The newly formed states are not 

 expected to expand into high-seas fishing in the near future. 



CONTENTS 



I. Background 275 



II. Fleet 276 



III. Modernization programs 276 



IV. Fleet reduction 276 



V. Shipyards 276 



VI. International agreements 277 



VII. Outlook 277 



Endnotes 278 



Appendices 279 



shellfish annually (appendix 1), and 



I. BACKGROUND employed about 13,000 workers. By the 



end of 1991, the Food and Agriculture 



, . Organization (FAO) of the United Nations 



The former Yugoslavia supported a ^^j^^ estimated that the Yugoslavian catch 



small fishmg mdustry which harvests mostly ^^^^.^^^ ^^ 20,000 tons. In 1992, that 



sardines in the eastern part of the Adriatic ^. ^^^ ,i^^,y ^^^^ ,^^^^ j^ ^-^^ ^^ ^^^ 



Sea. The vast majority of Yugoslav vessels protracted fighting between the Croats and 



were concentrated in the inshore fishery in ^^^ ^^^^^ -^ ^j^^ ^^^^^^ p^^^j^^^ ^^ D^,^^^i^ 



territorial waters, but some 120 state-owned ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^j^^i ^^^ 1^^^ 

 commercial vessels ventured further into the 



Adriatic' Earlier in the 1970s, the SFRJ Following the dissolution of the SFRJ in 



and Poland signed an agreement to set up a j^^^ y^g^ ^1^^ ^^^^^^y l^^^^^ ^^p -^^^ ^^^^ 



joint Atlantic fishing fleet of 23 vessels.^ independent republics; of these, only three 



As far as is known, the project was never ^^^^ ^ ^^.^^ ^^^^^. ^^^^^.^ Montenegro 



implemented. In recent years, before the ^^^-^^ -^ ^^ ^^e new "Yugoslavia"^) and 



eruption of civil war in 1991, the Yugoslav ^j^^^^j^ j^^ ^^^^^-^^ ^^^^^ j^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ 



fishing fleet caught approximately 40,000 to ^ ^^ .773 kilometers, km) and Croatian 



50,000 metric tons of marine fish and 



