ENDNOTES 



1. This was equivalent to 120 million leva at the exchange rate prevailing at the time of 6 Bulgarian leva to 1 U.S. 

 dollar. 



2. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Bulgaria, Rome, April 1991. 



3. T.K. Ivanov, "Bulgarian High Sea Fishery: Present and Future." Published in The First East-West Fisheries 

 Conference, 20-22 May 1993, St. Petersburg, Russia, (Agra Europe, Ltd. London), 1993, p. 13. 



4. T.K. Ivanov, "Bulgarian High Sea Fishery: Present and Future," Op. cit. 



5. FAO, Personal Communication, 21 July 1993; U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 26 July 1993. 



6. FAO, Personal Communication, 21 July 1993. 



7. The 5 TROPIK class trawlers were scrapped in Varna, Bulgaria, and in Pakistan. 



8. The MAYAKOVSKII-class stem trawler (Lebed) was scrapped in April 1986 at Eleisis, Greece. 



9. The disposition of the 6 ATLANTIK-class stem trawlers is not known. 



10. U.S. Embassy, Sofia, 29 September 1993. The Kondor reportedly sank after hitting a rock. The location of 

 the sinking in the Atlantic was not precisely identified, but it may have been off West Africa where the vessel was 

 fishing on its prior trips. 



11. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Bulgaria, Rome, April 1991. 



12. The "second season" begins in June of each year and lasts until the end of November. 



13. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Bulgaria, Rome, April 1991. 



14. The 1990 exchange rate was US$ 1=6 Bulgarian leva. 



15. Duma (Sofia), 21 October 1991, pp. 1-2. 



16. FAO, Fishery Country Profile. Bulgaria, Rome, April 1991. 



17. Duma (Sofia), 21 October 1991, pp. 1-2. 



18. "Shelled Trawler Rescued," Japan Times, 4 October 1977; "Argentina Opens Fire on Two Fishing Vessels," 

 Japan Times, 2 October 1977. 



19. U.S. Embassy, Buenos Aires, 22 August 1993. 



20. "Luz Rojo Para el Acuerdo Biilgaro," Redes, No. 42, 1989. 



21. "Fishing Agreement with Bulgaria Suspended," Buenos Aires DYN, 2 March 1989. 



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