ENDNOTES 



1. National Technical Information Service. Estonia: An Economic Profile. Washington, D.C., July 1992. 



2. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Estonia. Rome, November 1992. The figure of 30,000 employees in the Estonian 

 fishing industry is probably inflated and includes persons who worked in the former fishing kolkhozes, their 

 families, and possibly individuals who weren't directly involved in fishing activities. A more realistic figure is 

 probably about 15,000 employees. 



3. Ibid; Estonian Fishing Agency, September, 1993. 



4. Ibid. 



5. Nordic Investment Bank. Baltic study. September 1991. 



6. Ibid. 



7. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Estonia, Rome, November 1992. 



8. Seized by the victorious Red Army from Nazi Germany after the end of World War II, the Kruzenshtern was 

 for years used by the Soviet Ministry of Fisheries to train cadets from fishery schools and the merchant marine 

 academy. It visited the United States several times. The most memorable of these visits was the one to Newport, 

 Rhode Island, in 1976 for the jamboree of "tall ships" celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the 

 United States. The Kruzenshtern 's home port was Tallinn until December 1991 , when it left for the port of Baltiisk 

 near Kaliningrad. It is now assigned to the Kaliningrad Fisheries College. 



9. U.S. Embassy, Tallinn, Personal Communication, 2 September 1993. 



10. U.S. Embassy, Tallinn, Personal Communication, 10 August 1993. 



11. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Estonia, Rome, November 1992. This figure of 115 given by FAO is at slight 

 variance with the 117 vessels of the Baltic fleet mentioned in the NIB's 1991 study, but the difference of 2 vessels 

 is small enough to be insignificant. The ONI list (appendix 1) shows only 56 vessels of between 100 and 500 GRT, 

 many of which are believed to be operating in the Baltic, especially the BALTIKA and KARELIA classes. The 

 other Estonian vessels fishing in the Baltic probably have a gross tonnage below 100 tons, and were, therefore, not 

 included in ONI's list. 



12. Ibid. 



13. Lauri Vaarja, "The Fishery Industry in Estonia." Published in The First East-West Fisheries Conference, 20-22 

 May 1993, St. Petersburg, Russia. (London, Agra Europe, 1993), p. 61. 



14. U.S. Embassy, Tallinn, Personal Communication, 10 August 1993. 



15. Radio Riga, 12 July 1991. 



16. U.S. Embassy, Tallinn. Personal Communication, 2 September, 1993. 



17. Ibid. 



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