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Who Pays the Bill? 
Fishery training vessels are legally the property of the various re- 
gional fishery administrations, which reportedly have to pay for their 
costs out of their own operating funds. Whether this includes paying 
the original purchase price has not been determined. What, if any, 
portion of their upkeep is contributed by the Fisheries Ministry is 
also unclear. It would appear that the regional administrations have 
assumed the entire operational expense of their respective training 
fleets and that they use the catches obtained by the training fleet 
to defray part of such expenses. 
The annual operational costs of all 22 training vessels are estimated 
at 20-30 million rubles. What percentage of this amount is covered 
by the sale of the catch is not known, but it is possible that most 
expenses are recovered. 
In March 1974, a Soviet source reported that in 1973 the nine 
training vessels of the Zapryba (page 6) had made a “profit” of 
2.4 million rubles from the sale of landed fish. Since the cost of 
student training was not given, we cannot even speculate on the 
proportion of recovered expenses. 
More than 10,000 Student-Trainees a Year. 
Three vessel classes are prevalent in the training fleet, Grumant, 
Sevastopol, and Atlantik. The Grumant class vessels have been 
equipped with accommodations for 110 students (in addition to a 
crew of about 70), the other two classes can take on 85 and 90 
students respectively. 
From the list of Soviet fishery training vessels on page 3, one 
can calculate that as many as 1,250 students can be trained aboard 
these vessels at the same time as follows: aboard 6 Atlantiks—530 
students; aboard 5 Grumants—550 students; aboard 2 
Sevastopols—170 students. 
Each of the sailing schooners can accommodate at least 200 stu- 
dents, the rest of the training vessels can accept probably 200-300 
more. The total simultaneous trainee capacity of all Soviet fishery 
training vessels can thus be estimated at about 2,000 students at 
any one time. Since several different ‘“‘courses” are given aboard these 
vessels throughout the year it is believed that the total number of 
fishery students who make use of such on-the-job training is at least 
10,000 a year and possibly as great as 15,000 students. 
Global Deployment 
In 1975, a majority of the Soviet training vessels (12) is deployed 
in the Atlantic Ocean and is administratively attached to the Northern 
and Western Regional Fishery Administrations. The list below gives 
vessels’ names, classes, the year they were assigned to the training 
fleet and their homeports. In the Azov and Black Seas Fisheries Ad- 
ministration, only three training vessels are operational, two of them 
of recent vintage. The Caspian Fisheries Administration has one vessel 
of medium gross tonnage. 
32 Radio Moscow, in a broadcast ‘“‘For Seamen”’ of March 27, 1974. 
