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The annual increases or decreases in the total Soviet catch are 
also given in table 2 both in absolute figures (column 2) and in 
percentages of change (column 3). As was already evident in the 
graph (fig. 2), Soviet fishery catches sustained many ups and downs 
during the Stalin era, but in the post-Stalin years (1953-75) they 
decreased only twice and only by small amounts: in 1957 and in 
1971. 
