22. U.S. Embassy, Sofia, 29 September 1993. The 1979 agreement is apparently no longer valid since the 

 Bulgarians are no longer permitted to fish inside the Russian 200-mile zone in the Barents Sea. The Bulgarian 

 fishermen, however, continue to fish in the Barents Sea, but in its international waters. 



23. V.V. Revnivtsev, "Poisk Optimarnoi Strukturi SP," Rybnoe Khoziaistvo (Moscow), No. 1, 1993. Although 

 the Russian source specifically mentions that the Feniks only "receives and processes the fish from Kamchatkan 

 fishermen," Bulgarian catch statistics, provided by OKEANSKI RIBOLOV, show a 1991 and 1992 catch of Alaska 

 pollock (803 t in 1991 and 410 1 in 1992). The Alaska pollock could only have been caught in the Russian 200-mile 

 zone or the nearby international waters of the "peanut hole", since the species is only harvested in the North 

 Pacific. The FAO statistics for Bulgaria, however, show no Alaska pollock catch for those years. The discrepancy 

 could not be explained with available data. 



24. Pari (Sofia), 12 May 1993. 



25. U.S. Embassy, Sofia, 29 September 1993. 



26. "UK/Bulgarian Joint Fishing Venture," Eurofish Report, 15 July 1993. 



27. U.S. Embassy, Sofia, 29 September 1993. 



28. National Marine Fisheries Service, Fisheries of the United States, Washington, D.C., various years. 



29. Todor Ivanov, Managing Director of OKEANSKI RIBOLOV, Personal Communication, September 1993. 



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



31. 24 Chasa (Sofia), 21 June 1993. 



32. This figure is probably wrong as 44,000 tons of fishmeal would convert into a 220,000 t catch. The Bulgarian 

 total fisheries catch that year was only 100,200 tons. 



33. Zemedebko Zname (Sofia), 31 March 1965; Transporten Glas, February 1968. 



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