THE CUBAN FISHING FLEET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00429A000600040026-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: December 10, 1963
• Content Type: BRIEF

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10 December 1963
She Fishing Fleet
1. The rapidly expanding Cuban fishing fleet now contains well over 2
boats of various types and sizes regularly working in the waters of the
Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic. Maly of these are new and
i dern3.y designed boats constructed in Cuba during the past two years and
capable of lengthy stays at sea. According to Cuban press accounts, forty
of the 331 long class boats and 40 of the 251 long ,,,,, , class boats were
delivered to the Cuban fishing fleet during 1962 and 1963. In aridition,
Cuban shipyards were constructing fifty of the larger 75' L b a class boats
as of June 1963 and had net the goal of producing 88 of the boats by the end
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of the year. In addition,, Cuba has tw&m sea-ping trawlers built for it in
Poland and Japan and five of the 19 to 22 Soviet fishing boats that have been
operating out of Cuba are scheduled to be turned over to the Cuba3$.
2. The expansion of the Cuban fishing industry its a high-priority project
in the Soviet technical assistance program. According to a 6 December Havana
radio broadcast, the Cuban goal is to have over 900 modern fishing boats in
operation by 1970.
The expansion of the Cuban fishing fleet under the Soviet aid program
is linked to a gnu the construction of a i tome in Cuba for the Soviet
fishing fleet. Construction began early this year in Havana harbor and when
completed it is to be capable of handling 130 Soviet trawlers. Thus, a significant
expansion of Soviet fishing operations in the Caribbean and Eastern Atlantic is
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in prospect.
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