Photo 1. Bulgaria. Bulgaria ordered 9 KALMAR-class stem factory trawlers (2,450GRT) from a Polish 

 shipyard in the mid-1970s. 



90 period (appendix 1). Currently, the fishing 

 fleet consists of only 24 such vessels. (19 

 trawlers, supported by 5 large fishery 

 transports and baseships). The 12 vessels 

 which are no longer in the Bulgarian registry 

 were mostly scrapped. They were 5 TROPIK 

 class,' 1 MAYAKOVSKII class,^ and 6 

 ATLANTIK class stern factory trawlers.'' 

 Their total tonnage amounted to 32,312 GRT, 

 or about 40 percent of the current Bulgarian 

 high-seas fleet tonnage. The stern factory 

 trawlers of the ATLANTIK, KALMAR, and 

 MAYAKOVSKII class still in the Bulgarian 

 registry are by now all about 18-25 years old, 

 but they are well-maintained and will continue 



their high-seas operations in the foreseeable 

 future. One of Bulgaria's high-seas vessels, 

 an ATLANTIK-class stern factory trawler, the 

 Kondor, sank in April 1991 during a fishing 

 trip in the Atlantic Ocean. '° It is therefore no 

 longer listed in appendix 1 . 



The 5 large refrigerated transports and 

 baseships of the SIBIR class (photo 2) are also 

 about 20 years old, but will undergo 

 modernization and continue to support the 

 Bulgarian high-seas fleet. 



To obtain much needed hard currency, 

 OKEANSKI RIBOLOV plans to sell its most 



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