Despite the decline, Poland remains one 

 of the principal distant-water countries 

 currently fishing off the Falklands. The 3 

 major Polish high-seas fishing companies have 

 all deployed vessels there, targeting both 

 squid and demersal finfish, mostly blue 

 whiting. They deploy primarily large 

 trawlers averaging about 2,500 GRT, and use 

 Montevideo as a supply and transport base.^' 



In 1993, Poland obtained licenses for 5 

 large trawlers to fish off the Falklands during 

 the so-called first season (January-June), 

 when the catch is expected to include 3,700 t 

 of loligo squid. ^^' Another 4 vessels have 

 licenses to harvest finfish during the second 

 season (August to October).^' 



New Zealand: Two stern factory trawlers, 

 one owned by the ODRA company, the other 

 by DALMOR, are fishing inside New 

 Zealand's 200-mile zone. It is believed that 

 these trawlers are being leased by a New 

 Zealand company under commercial contract. 



Norway: The Norwegian Government has 

 allocated Polish fishermen a saithe quota 

 inside the Norwegian EEZ for 1992. Details 

 are not available. 



cooperation agreement (appendix 15)." 

 Polish-Russian fishery relations have been 

 strained recently because of the Polish 

 fishermen's refusal to cease operations in the 

 international waters of the Sea of Okhotsk 

 ("peanut hole") despite repeated calls by 

 Russia for a moratorium on fishing there. 



A more recent irritant was the boycott 

 against Russian trawlers trying to sell their 

 Baltic herring catch in Polish ports. The 

 Polish fishermen's union prevented them from 

 entering and claimed that the Russians were 

 dumping fish at prices 75 percent lower than 

 the prevailing prices on the Polish market (for 

 details see section on competition).^^ 



Nevertheless, economic advantages have 

 encouraged cooperation between the two 

 countries' fishermen. A fish cooperative 

 from Gdansk (Jednosc Rybacka) concluded a 

 contract with the owners of 4 Russian 

 trawlers based in Kaliningrad for delivery of 

 their Baltic herring and sprat landings. The 

 deal is mutually profitable as the Russian 

 owners will buy fuel in Kaliningrad at low, 

 subsidized prices and sell their fish in Poland 

 at higher prices than they could get in 

 Russia. ^^ 



Peru: According to a knowledgeable writer''-, 

 Poland has a bilateral fisheries agreement 

 with Peru, but unfortunately no details were 

 given. The article was published in early 

 1993 when most Polish trawlers were fishing 

 either in the northwestern Pacific or off the 

 Falkland Islands. It is believed that the 

 Peruvian operation probably involves only a 

 few vessels since most of the Polish fleet was 

 deployed in the previously mentioned two 

 fishing grounds. 



Russia/Fonner USSR: In December 1987, 

 the USSR and Poland signed a fisheries 



Sweden: Following the establishment of 

 exclusive economic zones in the Baltic Sea in 

 1977, Poland and Sweden concluded a 

 bilateral fisheries agreement, which is 

 reviewed annually. It allows reciprocal 

 access to each other country's EEZ. On the 

 average, Polish Baltic trawlers were allowed 

 to catch 9,000 t of herring in the Swedish 

 EEZ against 3,000 tons of Baltic cod that the 

 Swedes were allocated in the Polish EEZ. In 

 the summer of 1993, this agreement was 

 suspended because of a severe decline of cod 

 stocks in the Polish EEZ.^'' 



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