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abroad ; his venture proved to be a success. Under the Soviet government 

 trawling in the Barents Sea began to develop rapidly. The trawler fleet of the 

 u.s.s.r. in the Barents Sea comprised 300 craft by the beginning of 1958 



IAR 



HAIRY 

 SEAL 



SEA 

 HARE 



SMALL 

 RORQUAL 



NARWHAL 



GREENLAND 

 SEAL 



COD SAND- 

 DAB & OTHERS 



SEA 

 BIRDS 



MARKED LINK 

 WEAK LINK 



Fig. 72. Diagram of food correlations of Arctic cod (Klumov, 1935). 



(counting only ships of more than 42 m length and including a powerful 

 fleet of refrigerated trawler factory ships with a stern trawl sweep). In Soviet 

 times the herring fishery has developed rapidly on the Murman coast. The 

 hunting of marine animals — the Greenland seal — is a trade which has 

 existed since time immemorial in the Gorlo of the White Sea. 



Acclimatization prospects in the Barents Sea. The Barents Sea may turn out 

 to be the most suitable region for the acclimatization of commercial fish 

 and of the forms it feeds on, of all the northern parts of the Pacific Ocean. 



There is no doubt that several members of the Pacific Ocean fauna of the 

 lower Arctic and north-boreal aspects, for which the way through the Arctic 

 Ocean is now closed, could thrive successfully in the Barents Sea, since its 

 salinity and temperature conditions (potentially amphiboreal forms) are the 

 same as those of their main habitats. Attempts have been made to bring into 

 the White Sea the far eastern salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha); Kamchatka 

 crab was also prepared for transportation into the Barents Sea, but as yet no 

 further ventures have been undertaken. No comprehensive study of the Pacific 

 Ocean fauna as an acclimatization stock for the Barents Sea has so far been 

 carried out. Neither should the idea of collecting stock for acclimatization in 



