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Most of the newer vessels have large tonnage (over 2,600 tons). 
The older vessels are all small, except two sailing training vessels 
which were built in Germany soon after World War I. All newer 
and larger vessels also engage in fishing and are therefore called 
“training and production” vessels. Any new additions to the fleet 
will without doubt be training and fishing vessels, so deeply engrained 
is the study-work approach in Soviet fisheries education. 
Almost one-half (10) of all vessels was constructed in East German 
shipyards. Denmark delivered five during 1968-70, one was obtained 
from Poland and the remaining four vessels were built in Soviet 
shipyards. The already-mentioned sailing vessels were taken from Ger- 
many as war reparations. 
Most newer vessels were assigned to the training fleet of the Soviet 
Fisheries Ministry the year they were built, but it took 40 years 
for the ex-German sailing craft to land in that Ministry. 
Figure 1 shows how precipitous the phoenix-like rise of the training 
fleet was. It would appear that the basic decision to build it was 
first taken during the 1961-65 5 Year Plan. Once the Directorate 
for Personnel and Education of the Fisheries Ministry convinced the 
“Kollegium*!” of the usefulness of on-the-job training aboard opera- 
tional fishing vessels, funds flowed easily. 
31 Kollegium is the Executive Board of a Soviet Ministry. It is composed of the Minister, all Deputy 
Ministers, a few of the top executives, a total of 10-15 persons. 
Fig.1. The growth of the Soviet fisheries training fleet. 
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25 
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15 
10 
number of vessels 
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1950 1960 1970 1980 
Prepared by: Division of International Fisheries Analysis, Office 
of International Fisheries, NMFS, NOAA, Commerce. 
