fisheries will dominate Adriatic fisheries in 

 the future. The small Montenegrin coasdine 

 (199 km) and the even smaller Slovenian 

 littoral (32 km) will support some limited 

 fishing, but mostly for domestic 

 consumption. 



II. FLEET 



Yugoslavia had one high-seas vessel 

 (615 gross registered tons, GRT) registered 

 in 1975 and decommissioned in 1976 

 (appendix 2). From 1977 through 1981, 

 Yugoslavia had two high-seas vessels, both 

 registered at 1,047 GRT. These two vessels, 

 tuna purse seiners built in Yugoslavia, were 

 crewed by Dalmatian fishermen. They 

 entered the tuna fishery off West Africa and 

 transshipped their catch to a U.S. company 

 in California. The venture was not 

 successful for a variety of reasons and the 

 U.S. company bought one of the seiners in 

 1980, and the other in 1981. Yugoslavia 

 has had no high-seas vessels since 1982 

 (appendix 2). 



In December 1992, the Croatian fleet 

 consisted of 17 fishing vessels with a total 

 tonnage of 2,284 GRT. Slovenia had 8 

 vessels ( 1 ,016 GRT) and Montenegro owned 

 2 vessels (208 GRT). The small-tonnage 

 Croatian fleet was, on the average, 21 years 

 old and was supported by a small vessel 

 (113 GRT) which was 37 years old. 

 Slovenia's fishing fleet, which had no 

 support vessels, was much more modern and 

 younger (11 years on the average), while 

 Montenegro's fleet was purchased only 5 

 years ago. 



III. MODERNIZATION PROGRAMS 



During the 1980s, the Yugoslav 

 Federal Government expressed an interest in 

 expanding and modernizing its fishing fleet. 

 In 1986, it proposed the construction of 15 

 new vessels and the modernization of 61 

 others, the work for which was to be 

 completed in Yugoslav shipyards.^ In 1987, 

 Belgrade raised its catch targets by 60 

 percent to around 80,000 tons annually,^ and 

 subsequently announced that it would add 26 

 new vessels to its coastal fishing fleet.* 

 Judging by the FAQ catch statistics, these 

 plans did not materialize and, instead of 

 increasing by 60 percent, the Yugoslav 

 marine catch decreased by more than 15 

 percent by 1991. 



IV. FLEET REDUCTION 



SFRJ has had no decommissioning 

 schemes since it sold its last high-seas tuna 

 vessel in 1981. Small vessels fishing in the 

 Adriatic, however, are occasionally 

 replaced. 



V. SHIPYARDS 



Several yards specialize in building 

 vessels between 10 and 70 meters long and 

 in modernizing vessels up to 1,000 GRT.'' 

 Some of the shipyards were building small 

 coastal fishing vessels both for domestic and 

 foreign clients (Libya was one of them). 

 Information on their recent activity is not 

 available. 



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