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Besides the “contracting activity,” the functions of the managing organs of the fish industry include the carrying out of privatization, the creation of competing structures, etc. They will have more profit if the privatization of the state property in the fish branch or in a basin will be carried out more rationally and on a larger scale. In general, in order to increase their profits, the Committee will have to enforce the competition between the enterprises in the fish industry, thus increasing its competitiveness. It is obvious that in order to achieve all this, the Committee will have to use its own means and credits to establish new, technologically progressive enterprises which would be strong rivals of the present monopolists, to make investments in order to help the state enterprises to overcome their backwardness with respect to the advanced ones as concerns the technical equipment, the qualification of cadres, and labor conditions. Only then will some enterprises be free from the obligatory state orders and get a stimulus for voluntary privatization and others will carry out privatization without social conflicts since they will no longer need any guardianship of the state. Under the threat of losing their positions on the domestic market, the advanced enterprises will get a powerful stimulus for self-perfection. The possibility of enlarging their profits at the expense of payments received for the privatization of enterprises of the fish industry will orient the activity of the Committee on the establishment of industries whose production will be of great demand. In addition, it will restore the money-and- commodity balance in the whole industry, will help to carry out an economically effective structural reorganization not by building gigantic factories but by establishing medium and small enterprises. The lowered profit taxes and the smaller amounts of money needed to buy out the state property will extend the circle of candidates for its purchase, make privatization competitive and increase its effectiveness, accelerate the return of credits to the Committee and the turnover of its own resources. It will be profitable, first and foremost, to carry out privatization of enterprises fitted out with modern equipment whose sale will be less troublesome and yield more money. Of considerable interest to the Committee and its basin management organs will be the support of the activity of private enterprises (individual, cooperative, joint-stock) since they will serve as an insurance against failures of state industries. And when there are no failures of this kind, the Committee will not suffer from economic sanctions and, hence, its expenses will decrease. It will give more credits to state enterprises and will make the conditions of their use more favourable. Finally, the more frequently the decisions of the Committee concerning the establishment of new industries and the extension of the operating ones will correspond to the intentions of the local authorities, the smaller deductions to the budgets of the Local Soviets and republics will be needed in order to attain a compromise. All this is also true of the activities of the center of the fish industry concerning the territorial exchange of material resources, including export and import The economic efficiency of such an exchange in the form of market relations will not be harmed by the quotation of the export and import rates in the framework of the territory as a result of negotiations between the Committee, the republics and the local authorities concerning the development of the fish economy of Russia. The subjects of these relations will have to constantly strive for greater 1 4 4