companies into private share-holding 

 companies. 



The ANTARKTIKA Fisheries Production 

 Association has its roots in the Whaling Fleet 

 Administration set up in the Black Sea port of 

 Odessa in 1946. 



In 1987, the Association ceased whaling 

 operations and its largest whaling vessel, 

 which was constructed in 1959, the Sovetskaia 

 Ukraina (32,024 GRT), was re-equipped to 

 catch, process, and can fish. 

 ANTARKTIKA's huge fish factory 

 mothership, the Vostok (26,400 GRT), carries 

 her own fleet of 1 1 fishing vessels on board, 

 and can produce 25,000 cans of fish daily.'^^ 

 The company's fleet comprised over 40 

 trawlers of various classes (in addition to the 

 2 large motherships), and it also owned shore- 

 processing plants, construction facilities, and 

 a ship repair yard; it employed 11,000 

 persons. 



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In 1991, ANTARKTIKA owned 57 

 fishing, 12 transport, and 2 factory vessels, 

 and employed 13,400 people. 



The ATLANTIKA Fisheries Production 

 Association was a result of the I960 

 expansion of the Soviet fishing industry and 

 the creation of the Sevastopol Ocean Fishing 

 Administration, which in 1972 changed its 

 name to ATLANTIKA. In 1991, the 

 Association employed 8,850 people and 

 owned over 45 fishing and 3 training vessels. 



KERCHRYBPROM, which was formed 

 in 1950 as the Kerch State-owned Base of 

 Fishing and Marine Mammals, is one of the 

 oldest state enterprises in the Azov/Black Sea 

 Region. In 1991, the Association owned 33 

 fishing, 5 transport, and 2 floating factories, 

 and employed 8,120 people. 



YUGRYBSUDOREMONT is a 



commercial repair shipyard founded in 1981. 

 It repairs large vessels and owns 3 docks, 1 in 

 Kerch and 2 floating docks in Sevastopol. 



YUGRYBTRANSSBYT, die Refrigerated 

 Transport and Trading Administration, was 

 formed in 1967. It is responsible for 

 receiving fish and marine products from 

 national and foreign vessels and transporting 

 them to Soviet and foreign ports for 

 processing or marketing. 



YUGRYBPOISK, the Southern Fisheries 

 Exploratory and Production Association, 

 specializes in fish prospecting and in marine 

 research. Established in 1939, it owned 45 

 vessels of various types and classes carrying 

 many kinds of fishing gear, fish-finding 

 equipment and instruments, and conducting 

 several research projects in 1991. Its 

 research vessels perform hydrographic 

 surveys, search for new potential catch 

 species and fishing grounds, and analyze 

 geophysical and hydrometeorological data. 



Independent fishing companies began to 

 form in Ukraine as early as 1988. For 

 instance, the crew of the trawler 

 Dneprodzerzhinsk (ATLANTIK class of 2,654 

 GRT) leased a vessel from the 

 ANTARKTIKA Association with plans to 

 operate it independently on a contract basis. 

 Details of the activities of this venture are not 

 known, nor whether others have followed in 

 the steps of this ambitious and innovative 

 crew." 



Information on other independent fishing 

 companies and on the current status of the 

 above-mentioned state-owned enterprises is 

 not available. 



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