operational systems for commercial production scaled up by 



factors of 10, 100, and 1000 are projected and compared. Despite 



uncertainties in the systems, our analysis shows that large-scale 



systems using sewage as a nutrient source and free heat from 



power plant effluent (or located in a warm climate) cculd be 

 profitable . " 

 Subject descriptors: 



Power plant heat use; sewage effluent use; costs. 



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Sysoev, N. P. 

 1970. 



Economics of the Soviet fishing industry (Ekonomika rybnoi 

 promyshlennosti SSSR) . 



D. Daneman, transl., Israel Progr. for Sci. Transl., Jerusalem, 

 1974, 386 pp. (Obtain from NTIS.) 



This book is approved by the U.S. S.R. Ministry of Fisheries as a 

 textbook for institutions of higher learning, and describes the 

 fishing industry, its development, management, and analysis in 

 economic terms. Capital investment, enterprise cost, profit, 

 labor productivity, price formation, financing, and other 

 concepts are explained. While pond fish culture is not 

 identified as a separate topic in the table of contents (there is 

 no index), it is discussed. (See e.g., pp. 30, 46, 101-105, and 

 225.) Pond fish have accounted for 0.6% of the U.S. S.R. catch 

 for 30 years, with their output increasing from 8.4 (in 1940) to 

 52.4 (in 1968) metric kilotons. Productivity averaged 0.67 

 tons/ha in 1968. Economic indicators are shown for six advanced 

 farms in 1968, and include output in tons per hectare, prime cost 

 per ton, profit per ton, profit as a percent of prime cost, 

 profit as a percent of fixed assets, and normal working capital 

 (10 to 30%), and time to recover asset investment (3-8 years). 

 Carp account for up to 90% of the warmwater output. Herbivores 

 accounted for 11% of total pond output in 1968. Profit and 

 productivity improvements relate to mechanization, mineral 

 (nonorganic) fertilizers, multiple species culture, sufficiency 

 of juvenile supplies, pure-strain breeding, use of granular 

 feeds, etc. 

 Subject descriptors: 



U.S.S.R.; economic concepts; methodolgy; development rationale; 

 production data; outlook; revenue; costs; returns; history. 



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Szamborski, Jerzy. 



1967. 



Calculation of economic effectiveness of investments in fish 



farms (Rachunek efektywnosci ekonomicznej inwestycji w obiektach 



rybackich) . 



Gcsp. Rybn. 19(7): 3-5. (Copy of translation available on loan 



from NMFS. ) 



The main factors that influence the evaluation of the economic 



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