VII. OUTLOOK 



The prospects for the Ukrainian fishing 

 industry are difficult to determine because of 

 the dearth of available information. 

 Ukrainian fishermen suffer from some of the 

 same problems as those in the three Baltic 

 states (i.e., loss of access to distant-water 

 fishing grounds, limited diplomatic 

 representation, and the high price of diesel 

 fuel), but are also further hampered by the 

 relatively slow pace of economic reform in 

 the country. Ukraine's Government, 



especially the parliament, is conservative and 

 has implemented few reforms necessary to 

 create a free market economy. It also has 

 made little progress towards privatizing state- 

 owned companies. 



Ukraine has a substantial fishing fleet, 

 but apparently lacks the management skills to 

 utilize it efficiently. An official Ukrainian 

 Government source indicated that only about 

 30 percent of the Ukrainian high-seas fleet 

 was deployed in distant-water fishing 

 operations in the summer of 1993, the height 

 of the fishing season. The remainder was 

 probably idle in Ukrainian ports. 



SOURCES 



Baseinovoe Proizvodstvennoe Ob 'edinenie 

 Yugryba. Sevastopol, 1991. 



Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Lloyd's Fleet 

 Statistics at 31 December 1992. London, 

 1993. 



U.S. Navy. Office of Naval Intelligence, 29 

 July 1993. 



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