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COMMERCIAL FISHEEIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 10 



Flota), it will base its ships in the Havana 

 fishing port. Initially, the Soviet fleet there 

 will number 30 vessels: 15 large stern trawl- 

 ers of the Tropik -class (2,600 gross tons) and 

 15 medium freezer side trawlers of the Maiak - 

 class (700 gross tons). All Tropik-class ves- 

 sels and most Maiaks have been delivered to 

 the new Kaliningrad Command, though not all 

 have been sent to Cuba. In late summer 1966, 

 the Tropik-class stern trawlers were fishing 

 with vessels of the Kaliningrad Fisheries Ad- 

 ministration on Georges Bank. The medium 

 freezer side trawlers were operating with 

 Cuban fishing vessels on the Campeche Banks 

 off Yucatan Peninsula in southern Gulf of 

 Mexico, 



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 EXPANDS FISHERY RESEARCH 



South Pacific: A new fishery research 

 vessel, the Raduga, was delivered to the Pa- 

 cific Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography 

 (TINRO). She sailed on her first cruise to the 

 South Pacific in August 1966 for 6 months. 

 The Raduga is looking for demersal species 

 off New Zealand and Australia and for pelag- 

 ic species in the Indian Ocean. 



According to Soviet scientists, prior re- 

 search expeditions to the same area discovered 

 large stocks of bottomfish off New Zealand. 

 However, an estimated 70 percent of those 

 stocks became unavailable when New Zealand 

 extended her fishery limits to 12 miles. 



North Atlantic: Two Soviet oceanographic 

 and fishery research vessels, the Okeanograf 

 and the Aisberg, are conducting fishery re- 

 search west of the British Isles in the stream 

 of the North Atlantic Current. The 4 -month 

 long cruise began on July 1, 1966, when the 

 Okeanograf sailed from Leningrad and the 

 Aisberg from Murmansk. The two vessels 

 met between Faroe and Shetland Islands to 

 carry out simultaneous oceanographic and 

 fishery research. It is believed this research 

 will be of great value for Soviet fishing in the 

 North Atlantic and confirm previous observa- 

 tions by other Soviet research expeditions. 



The oceanographic research vessel F. 

 Nans en left Murmansk for the Norwegian Sea 

 earlier this year. She belongs to the Polar 

 Research Institute for Marine Fisheries and 

 Oceanography (PINRO) and is carrying out 

 oceanographic research together with Ice- 

 landic and other Soviet research vessels. 



Some time ago, Norway, Iceland, and the 

 U.S.S.R. concluded an agreement for joint 

 herring research. It may be that a similar 

 agreement has also been reached for oceano- 

 graphic research, although no details are 

 known. 



Red Sea: The fishery research vessel 

 Akademik Kovalevskii left its home port in 

 mid-1966 for a 3-month research cruise in 

 the Red Sea. It is affiliated with the U.S.S.R. 

 Institute for the Study of the Biology of the 

 Southern Seas at Sevastopol on the Black Sea. 

 The cruise's primary purpose is to study the 

 plankton of the Red Sea and its connections 

 to the Mediterranean and Black Seas. It was 

 organized by the Ukrainian Academy of Sci- 

 ences (Kiev). The plankton distribution is 

 also being studied for possible use in marine 

 fish culture. The 630-gross -ton vessel has 

 aboard about 20 scientists. 



Constructed in 1950 in East Germany, the 

 Akademik Kovalevskii has long been in the 

 forefront of Soviet oceanographic and fishery 

 research. Most of the research was conducted 

 in the Mediterranean and some in the Adriatic 

 Sea. In July 1964, she was the flagship of a 

 more-than-year-long joint Soviet-Cuban ex- 

 pedition studying the fisheries biology of the 

 Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. 



CLAIMS PERFECTION OF 

 SEMIAUTOMATIC CRAB PRODUCTION LINE 



The Russians say they have perfected a 

 semiautomatic continuous crab production line 

 which will replace "many tens" of crab-proc- 

 essing workers aboard crab factoryships. 

 Several of the lines are now being tested by 

 crab factoryships. Presumably, the lines are 

 also aboard vessels operating in the eastern 

 Bering Sea. 



Spain 



FISHING FLEET GROWS RAPIDLY 



The Spanish fishing fleet has become one 

 of the largest and most modern in Western 

 Europe. Ninety-seven Spanish freezer-trawl- 

 ers with a total processing capacity of 2,500 

 tons a day have been placed in service since 

 1961. These vessels constitute one-fourth of 



