United States: Poland signed a Governing 

 International Fisheries Agreement (GIFA) 

 with the United States on August 1, 1985; it 

 allowed Polish vessels to fish in U.S. waters. 

 This agreement was extended several times; it 

 is now valid until December 31, 1993.^^ 



entirely (pollock, herring. Pacific cod, etc.), 

 catch allocations to Polish fishermen in the 

 U.S. 200-mile zone (appendix 16). By 1990, 

 fishery allocations for Poles in the U.S. EEZ 

 had dropped to only 2,431 t; in 1991, these 

 allocations were reduced to zero .■" 



In the late 1970s, Poland 

 expanding catch quotas in the 

 EEZ. In 1982, however, to 

 democratic reforms begun by 

 movement, the Polish fleet was 

 the U.S. EEZ following the 

 martial law in December 1981 



was allocated 

 United States 

 encourage the 

 the Solidarity 

 expelled from 

 imposition of 

 I by the then- 



1,000 Metric tons 



250 



200 



150 



100 



w<<^^;¥^<^<^^<^^^^ 



Figure 7. Poland. Fishery allocations in the U.S. EEZ, 1977-92. 



Vietnam: Negotiations were conducted in 

 1991 by the DALMOR representative in 

 Vietnam who was trying to sell the 

 Vietnamese a Polish vessel to be used as a 

 fishery research vessel. The Polish 



Government is paying special attention to its 

 fishery relations with Vietnam as it would like 

 to establish a fishery base in 

 Vietnam so that Polish crews 

 fishing in the Pacific could be 

 rotated by air, with repairs and 

 maintenance of the vessels 

 completed in Vietnamese 

 shipyards. The Polish side is 

 represented in Vietnam by the 

 Department of Fisheries of the 

 Ministry of Transportation and 

 Maritime Economy, DALMOR 

 company, and the Gdansk 

 Shipyards. Polish relations with 

 Vietnam fishery officials are 

 facilitated by the fact that about a 

 half of them were educated in 

 Poland and can speak Polish.**' 



Communist Polish Government. The Polish 

 fleet had to discontinue its fishing in the U.S. 

 200-mile EEZ as it received no catch 

 allocations (figure 7).^** 



The Polish Government rescinded the 

 martial law regulations in 1984, and Polish 

 fishermen were again allocated catch quotas 

 in the United States' waters.^' In 1987, the 

 United States began to decrease (Atlantic 

 mackerel, Pacific hake, etc.), or eliminate 



VIII. JOINT VENTURES 



The conclusion of joint venture 

 agreements is vital for the continuation of 

 Polish high-seas fishing. Polish fishermen 

 urgently need new distant-water fishing 

 grounds on which to operate their substantial 

 fleet. Over 10 joint venture contracts were 

 concluded between 1989 and 1993 with 

 Australian, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, 



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