I. BACKGROUND 



Ukraine occupies 603,700 square 

 kilometers, or 2.7 percent of the former 

 USSR, (nearly the size of Texas), and is the 

 largest country in Europe besides Russia.' Its 

 coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of 

 Azov extends for a total of 2,782 kilometers. 



Ukraine was the second most populous 

 Soviet republic with 51.9 million inhabitants, 

 or about 18 percent of the population of the 

 former USSR.' 



Table 1. Ukraine. High-seas fishing and 

 fishery support fleet, by 

 number and type of vessel. 1991. 



Type of vessel 



Number 



Fishing 135 



Transport 77 



Floating factories 4 



Training 3 



Unspecified 45 



TotaT 264 



Source: Baseinovoe Proizvodstvennoe 

 Ob'edineme Yugryba Sevastopol. 1991 



The fishing industry in Ukraine is mainly 

 based in the Black Sea ports of Odessa, 

 Sevastopol, and Kerch, while shipyards 

 constructing fishery vessels are principally 

 located near the port of Nikolaev. 



!I. FISHING FLEET 



Confirmed data on the number of 

 Ukrainian fishing vessels could not be 

 obtained in time for inclusion in this report. 

 The U.S. Embassy requested this information 

 in June 1993, but has received no response 



Table 2. Ukraine. Fishing fleet, by selected 

 vessel capacity: 1993. 



Source: U.S. Navy. Office of Naval 

 Intelligence. 29 July 1993. 



from the Ukrainian State Committee on 

 Fisheries to which the inquiry was directed. 

 Three major statistical sources were 

 consulted: a brochure published in 1991 by 

 the Soviet Southern Fisheries Administration, 

 YUGRYBA (table 1); a list of Ukrainian 

 vessels provided by the U.S. Office of Naval 

 Intelligence (table 2); and the Lloyd's 

 Register of Shipping (table 3). 



The difference between the first two sets 

 of figures for the high-seas fleet (264 against 

 247 vessels) is not great, and probably 

 resulted from the decommissioning of over 20 

 Ukrainian registry fishing vessels from 1991 

 to 1993. One must also remember that during 

 those two years the Soviet fishing vessels, 

 which belonged to the Ukrainian Soviet 

 Republic, were re-registered under the newly 

 established registry of Ukraine. 

 Unfortunately, YUGRYBA's 1991 brochure 

 did not list vessel owners, or the names of 



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Table 3. Ukraine. Fishing and 

 fishery support fleet, 

 by number and total gross 

 registered tonnage. December 1992. 



Vessel type Number Total GRT 



Fishing 

 Support 

 Total 



272 

 _23 

 295 



469,512 



86.215 



555.727 



Source. Lloyd' s Register of Shippi ng . 

 Fleet Statistics at 31 December 1992. 

 London. 1993 



