contract, but the deal was renegotiated twice, 

 once when the two Germanys united, and 

 again after the Soviet Union dissolved. The 

 latest renegotiated contract has the Russian 

 Committee on Fisheries paying US$225 

 million for the vessels. The trawlers are 

 being delivered 2 each to the trawl fleets of 

 Murmansk {Boris Syromyatnikov and Kapitan 

 Bogomolov), and Arkhangelsk {Kapitan 

 Bubnov and Pomor); these 4 trawlers left 

 Stralsund on February 5 and 9, 1993, 

 respectively; the other 5 were expected to 

 leave, one every 2 weeks until May 3. The 

 Kaliningrad Trawl Fleet received the Rybak 

 and Nekrasovo, and the seventh vessel, the 

 Tosno, will go to the Leningrad Fisheries 

 Production Association, LENRYBPROM.-- 



A dozen of the ATLANTIK-III class 

 vessels, purchased from Stralsund, were 

 assigned to the Soviet fisheries research fleet. 

 They were distributed as follows: the Polar 

 Scientific Research Institute for Fisheries and 

 Oceanography (PINRO) in Murmansk - 3 

 units; the Atlantic Institute (ATLANTNIRO) 

 in Kaliningrad - 3 units; the Southern Seas 

 Institute (YUGNIRO) in Kerch - 2 units; and 

 the Pacific Institute (TINRO) in Vladivostok 

 - 4 units. Those still owned by Russia are: 

 PINRO, TINRO, Professor Kaganovskiy, 

 Professor Kizevetter, Professor Levanidov, 

 Professor Marti, Professor Soldatov, 

 ATLANTNIRO, Atlantida, Frithof Nansen. 

 The names of the 2 YUGNIRO units are not 

 known, but they probably now belong to the 

 Ukrainian Fisheries Research Institute. 



The German company, Elbewerft 

 Boizenberg GmbH Shipyard, located in 

 eastern Germany on the Elbe River, is 

 constructing 30 longliners to be deployed 

 mainly in the Far East for the Okhotsk 

 Fishing Company which is registered in 

 Cyprus." The first of these vessels, the 



Antias, was due for delivery in August 1993, 

 and the second, Kaprodon, soon afterward. 

 The vessels are being fitted with Norwegian 

 autolines for longline fishing, and processing 

 lines which will allow the vessels to process 

 up to 25 tons of fish a day.-" 



Finland: In the mid-1980s, the former Soviet 

 agency, Sudolmport, ordered three large crab 

 processing motherships (SODRUZHESTVO 

 class, 180 meters long; 32,096 GRT each) 

 from the Rauma-Repola shipyard in Rauma, 

 Finland. The first of these, the 



Sodruzhestvo'\ was launched in September 

 1987, and delivered to Vladivostok in March 

 1988 for the Sea of Okhotsk and the North 

 Pacific fisheries. The second vessel, Piotr 

 Zhitnikov, was also delivered to the Far East 

 in May 1989. It is identical to the 

 Sodruzhestvo except that it underwent some 

 modernization. The third vessel, Vsevolod 

 Sibirtsev, was launched in March 1989 and 

 delivered by the end of that year.-'' 



On September 10, 1987, Rauma-Repola 

 delivered a research and survey vessel, 

 Akademik Fedorov (140 meters long), to 

 GOSKOMGIDROMET. The vessel has full 

 ice-breaking capabilities for operation in the 

 Antarctic. Another research vessel, Akademik 

 loffe, built in Rauma in February 1989 is 

 based in Kaliningrad to conduct research in 

 the Atlantic.-' 



Norway: In late Summer 1993, the 

 Vladivostok Trawl and Refrigerated Fleet 

 (VBTRF) received two longliners {Kapitan 

 Kartashov and Kapitan Samoilenko) from the 

 Soviknes Shipyard in Sovik, Norway, as part 

 of a plan to modernize its fleet. Their 

 longlines are equipped with some 30,000 

 hooks to catch Pacific cod, halibut, sablefish, 

 and other bottom species in the so-called 

 "hard" grounds with rocky bottoms and 



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