4.4 



ROMANIA 



Romania is adjacent to the Black Sea and its fisheries have been traditionally based on that 

 body of water. In the 1960s, however, it began to buy high-seas fishing and fishery support 

 vessels from the Soviet Union, Poland and the former East Germany. Along with the increase 

 in fishery-vessel tonnage, its marine catch grew rapidly until the late 1970s when coastal 

 countries began to extend their fishery jurisdictions to 200 nautical miles. The Romanian fishing 

 industry could not adapt to the new conditions and Romania's catch began to stagnate and finally 

 decrease rapidly. The fishing fleet aged and became more of a burden than an asset. The 

 outlook for Romania's government-owned fishing industry is bleak and the lack of rapid 

 privatization has helped to perpetuate its inbred inefficiencies. The fishing industry continues 

 to try to meet its two principal goals: 1) to fully utilize its fishery fleet and thus maintain full 

 employment of its fishermen, and 2) to earn hard currencies through the export of fishery 

 products. 



CONTENTS 



I. Background 255 



II. Fishing Fleet 256 



A. High-seas Fleet 256 



B. Black Sea Fleet 257 



III. Shipyards 258 



IV. High-seas Fishing Grounds and Catch 260 



V. High-seas Fishery Organization 262 



VI. Bilateral Fishery Agreements 262 



VII. Fisheries Research 263 



VIII. Outlook 263 



Sources 264 



Endnotes 265 



Appendices 267 



the fleet has to cross both the Bosphorus and 



I. BACKGROUND Gibraltar Straits to arrive at the Atlantic 



fishing grounds. 



The Republic ofRomania, a country with Romania had a traditional Black Sea 



a population of 23 million, has a coastline of fj^hery which was continued after World War 



245 kilometers on the Black Sea. Its high-seas ^ !„ December 1947, King Michael 



fishing industry is mainly located in the port abdicated under communist pressure and a 



of Tulcea from where People's Republic of Romania was 



