SUMMARY OF USSR FISH INDUSTRY DATA, JANUARY 1953

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• Publication Date: June 3, 1953
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MAR 1952 SS-4C
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CLASSIFICAT~ CONFIDENTIAL
URPPY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Fleh industry
HOW
PUBLISHED Da11y newspapers,
WHERE
PUBLISHED ISSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 - 31 Jaa 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
~omment; This report presents a compilation, from January
1953 Soviet newspapers and a periodical, of information on the
1952 fish catch, the fish products industry, and fish breeding
and cona~rvation measures.
Fish Catch
In 1952, the USSR fish catch increased almost 70 percent, as compared with
1940. (1)
In 1952, sot one of the nine fishing kolkhozea served by the Pudozhskaya
MRS (Motorized Fishing Station) in the Karelo-Finnish SSR fulfilled the fish-
catching plan. 'Phase kolkhozes failed to meet state deliveries by more than
4,500 quintals of fish,(2) By 1955, Belomorekiy Rayon is to raise its annual
fish catch to 137,000 auintale, as compared with 46,857 quintals in 1950?(3)
A second MRS, the Tallinskaya MRS, has been put Sn operation in the
Estonian SSRe The new MRS is to serve 11 fishing kolkhozes 31ong the coast
of the Gulf of Finland.(4)
In 1952, fishing kolkhozes and state fishing brigades of Pyarnuakaya
Oblast, Estonian SSR, caught 36,093 9uintals more fish than in 1951, Fishing
kolkhozea of Pyarnuakaya Oblast supply 80 percent of the republic fish catch.
The 1952 fishing plan was not fulfilled because of the poor operation of sev-
eral kolkhozes which are still using out-oP-date fishing methods, particularly
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that of waiting for the fish to appear along the coast instead of going out to
look for them. The Estonian Fishing Kolkhoz Union is not giving necessary
assistance to the lagging kolkhozes.(5)
In 1950, the fish catch of Saarema Island, Estonian SSR, increased three
times as compared with 1946. In 1955, the fish catch is to increase 1.6 times
over 1950 and to constitute 25 percent of the total fish catch for the re-
public. By the end of the fifth Five-Year Plan, fishermen of Saarema Island
ere to increase the fish catch as follows: eels 9 times, whitefish 100 per-
cent, salmon 2 times, and sprat 4 times.(6)
At present, nine of 22 fishing kolkhozes in the Latvian SSR are located
in Rizhskaye Oblast.(7) In 1953, the area of pond fisheries in republic
kolkhozee is to reach 5,000 hectares. In 1953, the kolkhoz markets of the
Latvian SSR are to receive nearly 4,000 quintals of fish, or 1,200 quintals
more than in 1952.(8)
In 1953, the Administration of the Trawler Fleet of the Ministry of
Fish Industry Lithuanian SSR is to increase its flab catch by 42 percent,
sa compered with 1952?(9) As of 15 January, fishermen of the travler fleet
had caught almost twice as much fish as by the same time in 1952,(10)
After the Odessa Fishing Kolkhoz Union, Ukrainian SSR, had sent to the
Ministry of Flsh Industry Ukrainian SSR its plan Por Sncreasing the 1953
fish catch over 1952, Deputy Minister Kolosov suggested that the union re-
consider and lower the plan by 5,000 quintals; this meant that the uzio The
kolkhozes were to catch 2,000 quintals less fish in 1953 than in 195
plan presented by the fishing kolkhoz union had called for a fish catch of
1,260 quintals during the first quarter 1953; however, the ministry con-
firmed a plan calling for 2,200 quintals. At the end of December 1952,
after the ministry's plan had already been brought before the fishing organ-
izations, the ministry amended its plan and added several hundred quintals.
In January 1953, other changes were made in the plan. Thus, in effect,
kolkhozes of the union operated during the entire month of January without
s plan.(11)
In '953, pond fisheries of the Ministry of Fish Industry RSFSR are to
deliver to the trade network more than 30,000 quintals oP carp, Prussian
carp, ripus, and other valuable fish for Bale to the population. Manv of
these fish are to be sold alive .(,121 During the first 3 days of January 1953,
trailers of Kamchatskays Oblast caught more tt,an 30,000 pud of flounder, or
50 percent more than during the same period of 1952.(13)
Fishermen oP Krasnovodskaya Oblast, Turkmen SSR, caught 80,000 pud of
fish above the 1952 plan.. (.141
The 1937 gray mullet reserves in the Caspian Sea were estimated by Ye.
KulakovE at 30,000 to 50,000 quintals. Since then, the number of Caspian
Sea gray mullet has Dean Increasing steadily, but the catch remainb small.
The catch of Caspian Sea gray mullet from 1940 through 1951 was as follows
(in quintals):
Catch
Year
Catch
Year
Catch
ar
Ye
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1940
1,524
194E
2,140
1948
3,039
1941
2,408
1945
1,351
1949
3,350
1942
1,310
1946
3,077
195e
5,327
1843
1,152
1947
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CUi~iFIOE
2,868
NTIAL
1951
5,149
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During the 12 years, a total of 35,000 quintals of gray mullet was caught.
Gray mullet fishing has been conducted chiefly along the shores of the
Turkmen 33R (starting in 1937) and oP the Azerbaydzhan SSR (starting in 1941).
Gray mullet fishing along the shores of the Dagestanskaya ASSR was begun in
1946 and along the shores of the Kazakh SSR in 1940, but the catches from these
two areas are small {200 to 400 quintals annually). Gray mullet are caught
along the shores of the Turkmen SSR almost the year around, but the bulk of
the catch is obtained at the end of winter and during the spring and Bummer.
Fishing for gray mullet along the coast of the Azerbaydzhan SSR is conducted
chiefly during the spring and summer months but along the Dagestan coast only
in the eummer.(15)
Fish Products
D?,riag the Fourth Five-Year Plan, production of the canning shop of the
Helomorskiy Fish-Canning Combine, Karelo-Finnish SSR, doubled. The shop..aow
has an annual production capacity of 900,000 bars of canned fish.(3)
Zn 1955, enterprises of Saarema Island, Estonian SSR, are to increase
production of canned fish more than 19 times, as compared with 1950. In
1953, two large refrigeration plants are to be put in operation on the is~
land.(6)
Every year, production of fish products increases in Riga and Rizhskays
Oblast, Latvian SSR. From 1946 to 1951, gross production of the Skultskiy
Fish Plant has increased 830 percent.(7) The Ventspils Fish Combine produced
more than 500,000 Sara of canned fish above the 1952 plan.(16)
In 1953, pond fisheries of the Ministry of Fish Industry RSFSR are to
provide 6 million fry for stocking kolkhoz ponds.(12)
At the Taimlyanskaye Reservoir, s spawning installation with an area of
more than 1,000 hectares and a planned annual yield oP more than 40 million
fry is being constructed. Anew sturgeon-breeding plant is also being con-
structed; after completion, local Tsimlyanskaya sturgeon and a new type fish
which is a cross between sturgeon and starlet will be bred there. The new
plant is also to increase reserves oP Don starlet. All these measures
should increase the Tsimlyanskays Reservoir fish catch to 120,000-150,000
quintals annually.
To Sncrease the Pish catch in the Kuybyshev Reservoir, three spawning
installations are to be constructed with an area of 2,200 hectares and
planned annual yield of more than 60 million carp, bream, and pike perch Pry.
Two sturgeon-breeding plants with a annual yield of 3 million sturgeon fry
are also to be constructed. Nearly 300,000 brood fish are to be imported.
The fish catch of the Kuybyshev Reservoir should be more than 200,000 quin-
tals annually.(17)
SOURCES
1. Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 3 Jan 53
2, Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamye, 16 Jan 53
3 Ibid:, 9 Jan 53
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4. Moscov, Izvestiya, 25 Jan 53
5. Tallin, Sovetskaya Bstoaiye, 16 Jaa 53
6. Ibid., 3 Jan 53
7. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 27 Jan 53
8. Ibid., 8 Jan 53
9. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziys, 29 Jaa 53
10. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 16 Jan 53
11. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 31 Jan 53
12. Ibid., 18 Jsa 53
13. Moacov, Trud, 8 Jan 53
14. Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 1 Jan 53
15. Moscov, Rybnoye Khozysyetvo, No 1, 1953
16. Sovetskaya Latviya, 14 Jan 53
17. Izvestiya, 30 Jan 53
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