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USSR (Contd.): 



Not until the early 1960s, soon after nor- 

 malization of their political problems, did 

 Japan and the USSR begin to trade in fishery 

 products and services. It can be assumed 

 that Soviet fishery exports to Japan will con- 

 tinue to increase. 



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WHALE PRODUCTS EXPORTED 

 TO JAPAN 



During the first 9 naonths of 1966, about 

 3,000 metric tons of Soviet-produced whale 

 meat were exported to Japan; by the end of 

 1966, over 5,000 tons of whale meal and oth- 

 er specialty whale products (fins, hearts, 

 peritoneum, etc.) were slated to be exported. 

 It seems that the Soviet-Japanese fishery 

 trade, which expanded substantially in 1965, 

 is increasing further in 1966, 



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SELLS ALASKA POLLOCK 

 TO JAPAN FOR FISH MEAL 



Two Japanese fishery firms were scheduled 

 to negotiate with the USSR to buy 45,000 met- 

 ric tons of Alaska pollock in 19 67 from Sovi- 

 et vessels fishing off West Kamchatka in the 

 Sea of Okhotsk. Because of market condi- 

 tions, the firms hope to obtain a more favor- 

 able price in 1967 than the US$20.50 a metric 

 ton paid in 1966. The fish will be used to 

 manufacture fish meal. 



Next year will be the third that Japan has 

 bought Alaska pollock. Meal made from it is 

 of high quality and wanted in domestic and 

 export markets. (Kihon Keizai Shimbun, Sept. 

 22, 1966.) 



MURMANSK FISHERIES ARE EXPANDING 



The Main Administration of Northern 

 Fisheries at Murmansk is about to receive 

 11 large fishing and fish-processing vessels. 

 Poland will deliver 3 large freezer stern 

 trawlers and 2 base ships, Denmark 2 large 

 production and transport refrigerators, and 

 Finland 1 tanker. The remaining 3 vessels 

 will be constructed in domestic shipyards: 2 

 fish carriers in Nikolaev-on-the-Black Sea, 

 and 1 production and transport fish carrier 



in Leningrad shipyards. This is only one 

 example of the large Soviet program of buy- 

 ing fishing vessels abroad- -and the impor- 

 tant role foreign shipyards play in supplying 

 modern vessels to the expanding fishing fleet. 



NEW STERN TRAWLERS 

 REACH PACIFIC FLEET 



In August and September 1966, the Far 

 Eastern Main Fisheries Administration re- 

 ceived at least 6 large stern trawlers of the 

 Maiakovskii class built in the Soviet Union. 

 They were distributed equally among the 

 largest Pacific Regional Fisheries Adminis- 

 trations : Primorskii Krai (the Aleksandr 

 Kraev and the Ivan Che rnopiatka ) . Sakhalin 

 (the Valentin Kotelnikov and the Vasilii Vinev - 

 nikov ), and Kamchatka ( Petr Ovchinnikov and 

 Boris Gorinskii) . It is believed that most of 

 the new additions will be used in fisheries 

 off U. S. coasts. 



Other recent additions to the Soviet Pa- 

 cific Fishing Fleet include the Vasilii Put- 

 intsev, a 12,000-gross-ton floating factory 

 of the Zakharov class (2 more are under con- 

 struction at Leningrad Shipyards); a modern 

 refrigerated fish carrier; the 6,400 -gross - 

 ton Bashkir, and 5 large fish-processing 

 factoryships of the Spassk class (18,000 gross 

 tons) bought from Japan. 



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FLAGSHIP RETURNS FROM 

 NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC 



The fishing fleet flagship "Churkin" re- 

 turned to Vladivostok on September 15, 1966, 

 with 13,800 metric tons of fish (including 

 2,420 tons of Pacific hake) caught off the U.S. 

 Pacific Northwest. 



The Churkin left Vladivostok late in 1965, 

 worked in the Sea of Okhotsk and, since May 

 1966, serviced the fleets fishing first Pacific 

 perch and then hake off Oregon and Washing- 

 ton. 



Aleksandr Chepur, Commander of the So- 

 viet fleets operating off the Pacific North- 

 west, was aboard the Churkin. 



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