joint venture (between the Soviet Northern 

 Fisheries Administration, SEVRYBA, and the 

 Peruvian state-owned fisheries marketing 

 company, EPSEP) in 1991, and forced the 

 Soviets out of Peruvian coastal waters. 

 However, unconfirmed reports suggest that at 

 least some Russian fishing continued off Peru 

 as late as December 1992."" Current 

 information on Russian-Peruvian bilateral 

 fishery relations is not available. 



B. ASIA AND OCEANIA 



Australia: A Russian-Australian joint venture 

 (J/V), Holding Industry, has been established 

 in Sydney between the Nakhodka Fishing 

 Fleet Base and unknown Australian interests. 

 The goal of the J/V is to process Australian, 

 and later possibly New Zealand, fishery 

 resources for export. The Russian side will 

 provide vessels and crews for fishing 

 operations, while the Australian side will 

 provide access to the Australian EEZ, as well 

 as fuel, foodstuffs and other supplies for the 

 Russian fishermen. One Nakhodka trawler, 

 Argonit, began operations in the Australian 

 EEZ which is reportedly the first fishing ever 

 conducted by either the Russians or the 

 Soviets in the Australian zone.™ 



In early May 1993, the Director General 

 of DALRYBA, the Far Eastern Fisheries 

 Company, Yuriy I. Moskaltsov, visited 

 Australia to negotiate a joint venture named 

 Austral ia-Vostok, Ltd. The Russians are 

 proposing to use the information which they 

 have collected on the fishery stocks in the 

 Australian 200-mile zone in exchange for 

 access to these stocks for a limited number of 

 Russian vessels. Several other projects have 

 also been proposed, including one to 

 modernize a DALRYBA stern factory trawler 

 in an Australian shipyard; the vessel would 

 then fish for Pacific pilchard and saury, can 



the fish, and deliver it to Australian markets. 

 After offloading the canned fish, the vessel 

 would accept a delivery of frozen meat and 

 can it on the return trip to Vladivostok where 

 it would be sold on the Russian market.^' 



Two new Australian joint ventures in 

 Primorskii Krai are also engaged in fishing- 

 related operations: Kvintod Flai Co., Ltd. is 

 involved in fishing and fish processing, as 

 well as timber processing; and Paulus, which 

 is partnered with DALRYBA, will catch and 

 process fish and squid. Details on the 

 activities of these two ventures are currently 

 unavailable. '' 



Another Russian-Australian J/V, between 

 the fishing collective LENINETS from the 

 Khabarovsk Region and the Australian 

 company "Emerald Fishers," concluded a 

 contract to modernize 4 LENINETS vessels in 

 the Singapore shipyard ATLANTIS. When 

 the J/V went bankrupt, three vessels were 

 sequestered at the shipyard, while the fourth 

 one disappeared. It was eventually caught by 

 INTERPOL in Australia — repainted, carrying 

 false documents, and flying a Honduran 

 flag." 



China: The former Soviet Union and the 

 People's Republic of China signed a bilateral 

 fisheries agreement in 1988 which established 

 cooperation between the Soviet Far Eastern 

 Fisheries Administration and the China 

 National Fisheries Corporation. Technical 

 exchanges have taken place in the fields of 

 harvesting, aquaculture (particularly of 

 seaweed), processing, and fishing vessel 

 repair. ^'' 



At the most recent meeting of the joint 

 Russian-Chinese Commission on Fishing held 

 in Moscow in December 1992, an agreement 

 was reached on the construction of a scientific 



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