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productivity. Hence, the uncontrolled inflation, national conflicts and the general economic and political instability. In industrially developed countries the rationalization and maintenance of order in market relations occurred not by the will of enterprisers or capitalists. The main factors were the legal culture of wide masses of the population, the development of public consciousness, the public control of the economic activity and, of course, the competition, the acute struggle of enterprises for consumers. It was unprofitable to carry out suspicious affairs, to deccive the partners and workers. Any swindle soon became known to everybody and the doors of banks or business clubs were closed before the enterprises of this kind, the consumers turned their back to them. A good reputation became very valuable. Therefore, we need a transition stage with mechanisms of management of the fish industry specific for it. These mechanisms must ensure the evolution of “the old” to “the new.” The first step must be the transformation of bureaucrats into really responsible employees. This is the only way to the inculcation and the development of civilized market relations. It is senseless to banish the administration. In the present-day economy, it creates conditions for carrying out any economic operations and market transactions. In regions and at enterprises it is necessary, first of all, to make the administrative apparatus participate in working out measures that would provide for the transition of the center and of every fish industrial basin to civilized market relations. And for this to occur it is necessary to have a mechanism that would guarantee the responsibility of managers for their actions. This responsibility cannot yet be completely moral in our conditions since we have lost the age­ long correlation of the culture and the ethics of a civilized market, and along time will pass before we regenerate it. Neither is it political since it presupposes the publicity of any action carried out by the administration and an instantaneous reaction of the society to errors and misdemeanor of employees that do not remain without a corresponding response (a dismissal of an official, a discharge of medium- or lower-level employees). We have no tradition of this kind and a long time will pass before we create conditions for its appearance (provide necessary information and professional cadres). The main specific feature of the mechanism of economic interaction of the counteragents in the period of transition to market relations is the economic responsibility not only of enterprisers and hired workers but also of the apparatus of executive managers for their economic and directional activities at the federal, at the republican or regional, and at the local levels. The basis of this mechanism is the self-financing of the administrative organs in accordance with the successes and failures in the activity of each of them, not the activity they have carried out being monopolistic managers of material and technical resources and the production, but the activity that must be defined by the new position of the administration in the system of economic power from the center to the enterprises. The only source of profit of managers will be the worthy representation at negotiations, concerning the development of enterprises, fish industrial basins and the industry as a whole, of the interests of those who delegated them the authority and the coordination of these interests with others, 1 4 1