418 
Table 2. U.S.S.R. The number of powered and non-powered fishery 
vessels for selected years. 
-TYPE OF VESSEL/ YEAR 1975 1955 1940 
POWERED, TOTAL (E) 18,000 x 10,872 2,727 
Trawlers Bh 
Large Stern 760 - = 
Medium Side 1,810 1,498 107 
Medium Stern 150 = = 
Seiner-trawler 40 - - 
Other 120 100 - 
Total, trawlers 2,880 1,598 107 
Seiners 
100 GRT or more 570 (E) 300 Dede 
less than 100 GRT (E) 2,430 ( Op onal I hey Neate 
Total, seiners (E) 3,000 TECH, 376 
Support Vessels 
Fish carriers 380 (E) 100 - 
Floating canneries 95 - - 
Motherships 5 - - 
Baseships 60 - - 
Cargo support 60 (E) 10 - 
Repair ships 40. n.a. - 
Fuel tankers 75 10 - 
Water carriers 35 (E) 10 - 
Passenger transports 5 = = 
Fishery training 22 2 - 
Research vessels go4/ (E) 13 10 
Total, support 857 (E) 145 10 
Other 3 (E) 11,168 (E) 7,549 (E) 2,234 
Whaling vessels : 
Motherships 5 3/ 3 - 
Catcher boats 90 E) 60 - 
Total, whaling 95 (E) 63 - 
NON-POWERED, TOTAL (E) 62,000 47,752 33,679 
(E)-estimated 
1/  Sovetskaia Torgovliia, July 12, 1975. 
2/ Includes only vessels having a capacity greater than 100 gross register tons. 
3/ Includes vessels having less than 100 gross register tons. 
4/ The figure 80 does not include those vessels which are engaged. in 
exploratory fisheries research (promrazvedka), because they are owned 
by the respective Regional Fishery Administrations and not by the 
Fishery Research Institutes. 
5/ One of these,the Iurii Dolgorukii, was retired in late 1975 bef 
= son} Oe ae : efore th 
1975/76 Antarctic whaling season began. ° € 
Sources: FAO. Yearbook of Fishery Statistics, Vol. VI; Rome, 1957 
(for 1955 and 1940 statistics) 
Division of International Fisheries Analysis, Office of International 
Fisheries, NMFS, NOAA (for 1975 data). 
