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Wages earned by Soviet fishermen are often two or three 
times higher than the average Soviet worker's salary. In 
1975 deck hands could earn up to $600 a month while the 
average Soviet worker earned less than $200 a month. Soviet 
fishing vessel captains are paid over $1,000 monthly. 
Productivity is a basic factor used in determining the 
wage paid to a member of the fishing industry. Other factors, 
such as location and duration at sea, are also considered. 
There are more than 20 manuals and handbooks dealing with 
wage computation for fishermen. In 1972 a Soviet labor of- 
ficial said that the system for determining wage rates in the 
fishing industry is more complicated than in any other Soviet 
industry. 
MAJOR FISHING AREAS 
Industrial pollution and overfishing within Soviet 
coastal waters have necessitated fishing operations on the 
high seas which, according to NMFS estimates, accounted for 
over 90 percent of the Soviet Union's 1975 catch. In 1950 
the Soviet fleet had to travel about 200 miles to reach good 
fishing grounds. This distance increased to over 4,000 miles 
in the late 1960s. 
The major Soviet fishing grounds include the Atlantic, 
Indian, and Pacific Oceans, the Azov and Black Seas, and 
Soviet inland waters. The primary areas are in the Atlantic 
and Pacific where the harvest about doubled between 1964 and 
1973. The following table shows distribution of the harvest 
by fishing areas in 1964 and 1973. 
Fishing area Billions of pounds Percent of total 
1964 1973 1964 1973 
Atlantic Ocean 4.6 1ORe 46.4 5)3}5 IL 
Pacific Ocean Bie 653 B22 3822 
Indian Ocean (a) One Orel ORS 
Inland waters, 
including the Caspian 
Sea eG ie 8) iG ORO 
Azov and Black Seas OVS 0.6 Baal Nee 
Totals 9.9 LOO 100 109 
“Less than 100 million pounds. 
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