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priority to increasing the fisheries catch, it was a foregone conclusion 
that only the least productive vessels could be spared. Only old fishing 
vessels were fitted out for training. In addition, obsolete vessels from 
the naval and the oceanographic research fleet were turned over to 
the Fisheries Ministry rather than to the scrap heap. 
Later, in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the acquisition of training vessels 
was to become a priority. Specially equipped training vessels were 
ordered abroad by SUDOIMPORT and the Soviets also began 
domestic construction of training vessels. 
The Rise from the Ashes. 
Today, the Soviet Fisheries Ministry has at its disposal 22 training 
vessels, 16 of which were built less than 7 years ago and are equipped 
with every modern device. Table 1 is a list of these vessels giving 
a few basic data on each, including their names and tonnage. The 
total gross registered tonnage of the training fleet is 67,054 tons, 
the largest in the world and greater than the gross tonnage of the 
entire fishing fleet in such traditional fishing countries as Belgium, 
Denmark and Ireland put together.*° 
30 Only vessels over 100 GRT are counted. 
Table 1. U.S.S.R. Fishery training vessels (as of January 1, 1975) 
[BUILT _'| SERVICE AS TRAINING 
Country VESSEL 
Homeport 
GDR Sevastopol' 
Barograf Atlantik 
Bataisk: Vorkuta Poland Murmansk 
Diplot : Atlantik GDR Riga 
Ekholot : Grumant Denmark Riga 
Geliograf Atlantik GDR Vladivostok 
Grif SRT GDR Riga 
Kommissar Polukhin Sevastopol’ USSR Murmansk 
Kompas Grumant Denmark Murmansk 
Kruzenshtern Sail Germany Riga 
Kurgan SRT GDR Riga 
Kurs Grumant Denmark Sevastopol’ 
Kursograf Atlantik GDR Riga 
Kvadrant Atlantik GDR Vladivostok 
Lokator Grumant Denmark Vladivostok 
Mikhail Korsunov Zelenodolsk USSR Astrakhan 
Navigator SRT GDR Riga 
Nikolai Zytsar Sevastopol’ USSR Riga 
Pelengator Grumant Denmark Vladivostok 
Ruslan SRT GDR Sevastopol' 
Sedov Sail Germany Riga 
Volnomer Atlantik GDR Vladivostok 
Zabaikal'e Sevastopol' USSR Vladivostok 
Azch. = Azcherryba (Azov - Black Sea Fisheries Administration) 
Sevryba (Northern Fisheries Administration) 
Sev. 
Zap. Zapryba (Western Fisheries Administration) 
Dal. = Dalryba (Far Eastern Fisheries Administration) 
Kasp. = Kaspryba (Caspian Fisheries Administration) 
TP = Training and production vessel. T = Training vessel. 
Source: Personal communication to M. Kravanja, Office of International Fisheries, NMFS, 
NOAA from Mr. E. Ikonnikov-Tsipulin, Deputy Director for Education, Soviet 
Ministry of Fisheries. 
