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built by Polish shipyards for the Soviet fishing fleet and displayed 
at the site of the exhibition. The German Democratic Republic also 
had a large exhibit. Soviet visitors to the exhibition could not avoid 
the clear evidence of dominant German participation. Taken together, 
the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic 
exhibits occupied practically half of the total exhibition space. Displays 
of other nations included a wide range of standard gear and equip- 
ment. 
The United States’ participation in Inrybprom—75 was minimal. The 
United States was represented by a single firm from Rhode Island, 
the Xodar Corporation, which deals in aquaculture and filtration 
systems, industrial aeration, ultra-violet sterilization, and pollution test- 
ing and consulting. The example of Xodar Corporation should serve 
as encouragement to other U.S. firms engaged in the manufacture 
of fishing industry-related products. Although trade with the Soviet 
Union may seem like a complicated proposition, the Soviet fishing 
industry is becoming more accessible to foreign companies through 
such activities as Inrybprom-—75. 
APPENDIX 1 
AN ACUTE PROBLEM 
The development of fisheries in the Far East and the organization 
of fish marketing were described in the article ““The Results of One 
Year.’’ Because Murmansk fishermen, as is true for Sakhalin fisher- 
men, are troubled by the problems of satisfying the public’s demand 
for fish products more fully, we will continue the discussion. 
We agree with the author of that article that fish marketing is 
not being managed satisfactorily. The wholesale centers of the Ministry 
of Trade’s Myasorybtorg Trust view their task simplistically. Having 
received fresh, frozen, or salted fish, all they need to do is distribute 
it to the stores, and their problems are over. 
But in reality the responsibilities of the wholesale centers have 
an entirely different nature. They are supposed to process a substantial 
part of the fish they receive and offer a wide assortment of products 
to the consumers. 
When there was not enough fish and it was sold immediately at 
the stores, no special attention was given to the fact that the wholesale 
centers were acting only as a transferring link. But the situation has 
changed. The amount of fish to be sold is getting greater, and thought 
must be given to assortment diversity. With this purpose, new 
processing enterprises must be set up under wholesale center adminis- 
tration at the points of consumption, and existing ones must be en- 
larged. 
Ministry of Trade organizations have been involved with wholesale 
fish marketing for many years, but the situation in fish processing 
at the places of consumption has not changed for the better. Let 
us look at Leningrad as an example. Back in the 1930’s, the Leningrad 
wholesale marketing center possessed two enterprises, a fish combine 
and a fish curing plant. These two enterprises exist to this day. Their 
output has been increased through renovation by 15-20 percent, while 
the. city’s population has doubled in this period. Thus it is not surpris- 
ing that there are not more than 5-6 types of culinary products 
