POLISH FISHING FLEET

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500740011-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 11, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Polish rrovernment is i akinrr strong efforts to increase the P,.ze of the
Polish f ishinry fleet, both as a means of obta nin? more fish an('. to Ferve
as a r sexvo trans r-)-t and landinry craft fleet for the Polish nail. The
shipyards Stocznia Polhocna at Gdansk and Stoemi.a (a ,.
coact a.ctinr. trawlers of from. 500 to 700 vross tons
v ou" z the fishing '.:.e included someuha~ less than 8,000 tyros;! tons
19-49, it is bored that by the end of 191,0 the fleet will --'row to. 18,000
gross tons. Swinoujscie, `'zczecin, Gdynia and Gdansk serve as horns ports
for trawlers, and rerairs on those ships are usually rode at Gdwt&1cy
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The fishinr, fleet also includes about 250 cutters of varimfn x,12 s with
cret;ro'~totalinr! at least 500 pen. Lar_7er cutters takinr! crews of from
of ht to ten ren and intended for use in the "Torch 366 are constructed at
~otIm (Stolz `ittndo) an.- ro rinou i soie (`T?nine ide) , rile --utters to king a
six-nan crew are b,j.'.t at Darlowo (Pi1r;entralde).
3m Centers for training fishing crews have been establishes?, but the Poles seem
to have '.ifficuityr i a obtaining! 'i 3a,b"Le ctu?ents. Durinr~ the mirror of 1950
about s i.ttyr neul v-t- fined s ,u ?en i s f r8n such centers ..efected in t'oreirm poste;
All. trawlers and cutters are controlled by naval corriinsions, ear h~. of which in-
cludes a Soviet officer.
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56 Pishinr, vessels at Cbtkn are controlled by the cartain of the ports a naval
captain na ed Czoalaw Kazubeka Captain of the Polish navy Stefan Pnppe1baum
also works a, port officer and teacher at the Szkola S pea jalistoir I"orok1ch'
(Si) navy school at Ustka.
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