After independence, the fishery kolkhozes 

 were privatized and converted into holding 

 companies. These 4 former kolkhozes, and 2 

 newly organized private companies, own the 

 remaining 24 Estonian high-seas vessels 

 (appendix 4). The former kolkhozes were 

 restructured into the following companies: the 

 joint stock company MAJAK (located in 

 Tallinn); the stock company DAGOMAR 

 (Hiiumaa); the stock company MOONSUND 

 SHIPPING (Saaremaa); and the leasing 

 company VAAL (Parnu). The 2 small private 

 companies, KALMAR and MARVEL, are 

 both based in Tallinn. 



The MAJAK fishing company owns 9 

 vessels (appendix 4). All are leased to other 

 countries because MAJAK has discontinued 

 high-seas fishing operations. Four of 

 MAJAK' s trawlers (Kandova, Polva, Pirita, 

 and Paljasaare) have been leased to a 

 Murmansk stockholding company named 

 NORD and fish for cod in the Barents Sea. 

 Two vessels (Paistu and Parallaks) are leased 



Figure 2. --Estonia. Distribution of fishery production, by percentage 

 of total; 1992. 



to a Russian Far Eastern fishing company and 

 deployed in the Russian Pacific 200-mile 

 zone.'' The remaining two vessels (Onekotan 

 and Tiskre), both large stern factory trawlers, 

 have been leased to a company in Guinea- 

 Bissau. The deployment of the small side 

 trawler, Kondopoga, is not known. Since the 

 lessees are not required to inform MAJAK 

 company of any details about their catch, it is 

 not known how much they are harvesting, or 

 what species. 



The DAGOMAR company's 3 medium 

 stern trawlers (ZHELEZNYAKOV class) 

 fished in the Barents Seas and off the West 

 African country of Guinea-Bissau in 1992. 

 DAGOMAR' s 200 fishermen landed 6,300 t 

 of various fish, for an average of over 30 t 

 per fisherman. The targeted species were 

 shrimp and cod in the Barents Sea, and 

 sardines, carangids and octopus off Guinea 

 Bissau. 



The MOONSUND company also owns 3 

 medium stern trawlers of the 

 ZHELEZNYAKOV class. They 

 are fishing for shrimp in the 

 Barents Sea in two joint ventures. 

 The first one is with a newly- 

 established private Estonian 

 company KALMAR, which leased 

 one trawler; the other two vessels 

 are in a joint venture with a 

 Russian company. In 1992, 

 MOONSUND 's vessels were 

 deployed off Colombia under a 

 contract concluded by 

 SOVRYBFLOT (a Russian 

 company which arranges joint 

 ventures, fleet maintenance, and 

 the export of fishery products), but 

 that joint venture contract was not 

 renewed in 1993. 



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