Norwegian General Consulates in St. 

 Petersburg and Murmansk. Under this 

 umbrella agreement, the leaders of Norway's 

 Finnmark Province and of the Arkhangelsk 

 Region met in Arkhangelsk in June 1992. 

 They agreed to create joint ventures in salmon 

 farms, hatcheries, and feed production, as 

 well as in fishery processing plants. '"' 



During a visit of Russian Foreign 

 Minister Andrei KOZYREV to Norway in 

 1991, it was agreed to renew discussions 

 concerning the demarcation of the maritime 

 boundary, the economic zones and the 

 continental shelf in the Barents Sea. In 1926. 

 the former USSR unilaterally established a 

 boundary in the Barents Sea which Norway 

 never recognized. Negotiations between 

 Russia and Norway on this problem have 

 been ongoing for two decades, but only in 

 early 1993 was a preliminary agreement 

 reached on the boundary in the "northern 

 part" (probably the area around the Svalbard 

 Islands) of the Barents Sea. Further 

 discussion will center on a relatively small, 

 but economically vital area in the Barents 

 Sea.'o^ 



In February 1993, the major issue 

 discussed by the Foreign Ministers of Norway 

 and the Russian Federation in respect to the 

 Barents Sea was the problem of overfishing. 

 The Ministers agreed to try to preserve 

 fishery stocks in the Barents Sea by increasing 

 controls on fishing activity by both sides. "'^ 



The aquaculture section of the Murmansk 

 Fisheries Administration and Norway's Polar 

 Industries Association have agreed to establish 

 a 50/50 joint venture called Kolnor 

 Association. The joint venture will culture 

 cod taken at sea by Russian trawlers. Six 

 sites in northern Norway and in the 

 Murmansk region of northern Russia have 



been selected for the construction of sea pens, 

 round cages with a 40-meter diameter and a 

 capacity of 12,000 cubic meters. The first 

 pens will be built in Kongfjord, Norway, 

 where a good infrastructure, transportation 

 links, processing plants, well-trained workers, 

 and good harbor facilities exist. "^ 



Romania: In February 1978, Romania and 

 the Soviet Union signed in Bucharest a 

 bilateral fisheries cooperation agreement (see 

 appendix 8 in Romania chapter of this 

 volume). The 5-year agreement'"^ established 

 a Joint Commission to meet at least once each 

 year alternately in Bucharest and Moscow. 

 The Commission would coordinate the 

 exchange of fishery experts and the results of 

 exploratory and other fishery research; it 

 would also organize technical conferences, 

 etc. One of its most important provisions was 

 the coordination of Romanian and Soviet 

 high-seas fisheries in various world oceans.'"* 

 Whether this agreement was continued by the 

 Russian Federation is not known. 



D. AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST 



The Gambia: The fishery relations between 

 the Russian Federation (or form.er Soviet 

 Union) and the Gambian Government are not 

 fully known. According to a June 1993 

 report by the U.S. Embassy in Banjul, 4 

 Kaliningrad fishing vessels have been issued 

 licenses to fish within the Gambian FEZ. 

 Since the Gambian Government currently 

 lacks fisheries enforcement capabilities, it 

 cannot be excluded that additional Russian 

 vessels are fishing in that country's EEZ. 



Morocco: The former Soviet Union 

 concluded a fisheries agreement with the 

 Government of Morocco in 1991 and obtained 

 a large annual catch quota (850,000 tons) in 

 the Moroccan 200-mile zone. The Russian 



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