ENDNOTES 



1. Jezequel, Bruno, "Romanian Fisheries after the Revolution: the Slogan is Quality," Le Marin (Rennes, France), 

 1 June 1990; and U.S. Department of State, 11 June 1993 (cable No. 154373). 



2. Journal of Commerce, (New York), 2 November 1970. The food production investment funds in the 5-Year Plan 

 for 1971-75 amounted to US$ 750 million, or $150 million each year; 20 percent of this amount would be $30 

 million. Most of these funds were used to buy new fishery vessels in the former German Democratic Republic and 

 in Poland. The Romanians were planning to deploy the new modem processing vessels in the Atlantic cod fishery 

 off New England and sell the catch to U.S. fish-processing plants. Unfortunately, these plans went awry when the 

 United States Government extended its fisheries jurisdiction from 12 miles to 200 nautical miles in late 1976. 



3. Romanian fisheries delegation. Personal Communication, 5 December 1973. The actual number of Romanian 

 stem factory trawlers was 18 at the end of 1973, but the Romanians probably included the 1 trawler which was on 

 order in Poland and delivered in 1974. 



4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Lloyd's Register of Shipping Statistical Tables, London, various years; U.S. Navy, 

 Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 27 July 1993. The two sources have slightly different figures because ONI only 

 shows the Romanian high-seas fleet as it existed on 27 July 1993 and does not include any trawlers which might 

 have been decommissioned prior to that date. Lloyd's statistics, on the other hand, go only through June of 1992 

 when they show the number of high-seas fishing vessels at 41 imits; a year later the ONI count gives 38 such 

 vessels, the "missing" 3 trawlers were probably decommissioned. 



No such discrepancies exist in the number of the 12 fishery support vessels, none of which has yet been 

 decommissioned. Both Lloyd's (appendix 2) and ONI (appendices 1 & 4) have the same numbers. 



5. Anca Sfectcovici of the Romanian Development Agency stated in May 1993 that only 10 fishery transports, 

 having 84,000 GRT, support the high-seas fleet. Given the difference between this tonnage and the tonnage reported 

 by Lloyd's in appendix 3 (about 95,000 GRT), it would appear that the 2 eliminated fishery transports were the 2 

 SIBIR-class vessels (Polar I and Polar 11). Their total gross tonnage is 10,240 GRT. 



6. U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence, 27 July 1993. 



7. The Office of Naval Intelligence, in late July 1993, reported no knowledge of any Romanian vessels being 

 reflagged or having been eliminated from the Romanian registry during the last 2 years. 



8. Anca Sfectcovici, "The Fishery Industry of Romania." Published in: The First East-West Fisheries Conference, 

 20-22 May 1993, St. Petersburg. Russia, (London, Agra Europe, Ltd.), 1993. 



9. Ibid. 



10. U.S. Department of State, 11 June 1993. 



11. Agerpres in English, 21 March 1989. 



12. In 1989, the Tulcea Shipyard was modernized and reorganized so that it can now build vessels as large as 

 15,000 deadweight tons. It is not known whether it still builds the small Black Sea trawlers. 



13. Romanian fisheries delegation. Personal Communication, 5 December 1973. 



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