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competitiveness as compared to their rivals in order to have the possibility (in the limits of the given quotas) of increasing the scope of the activity in a basin and of concluding direct commodity deals with any partners, thus enhancing and not hindering the necessary reorganization of the fish industry. At present, we observe a wide-scale establishment (which, we hope, will be enhanced in future), on a voluntary basis, of various interbranch associations, syndicates, joint-stock companies, and trading houses with the participation of producers, foreign economic intermediary firms, banks and other organizations. There are a number of formations of this kind in the fish industry even today. For a long time, an optimal structure of management of the foreign economic activity was sought in the Northern fish industrial basin. In 1988, a structure was worked out in the form of a foreign trade firm “Pomor.” However, a number of fish enterprises saw in its affiliation to the association “Sevryba” an attempt to restrict their rights to foreign economic activity. Nevertheless, the former Ministry of the Fish Economy of the USSR gave to it the rights of agency servicing of ships in all the basins of the fish industry. 'Thus, in 1989 the basin apparatus was supplemented by a foreign economic subdivision consisting of three departments: an export department, a department of foreign economic ties, and a currency department. These departments, in tum, were divided into sectors in accordance with specific activities. A year was needed to work out necessary calculations and methods. During that time, about thirty people gained practical experience, within the new form of service, in the sphere of foreign economic activity. When “Sevryba” was reorganized into an association of fish industrial enterprises, a possibility appeared of giving independence to the foreign economic subdivision. This was not done, however, for one reason, namely, because of a close connection of rouble credits of the wholesale supply firm “Sevrybsbyt” for payment for goods after their shipment to the transport boats with the rouble covering in the amount of its cost plus ten per cent of the export additional charge after the enterprises receive hard currency. Today this problem no longer exists. There was also a subjective factor, the doubt of the administration of the Northern basin as to the ability of a new foreign economic subdivision to cope with the problems and to overcome the potential counteraction of “Sevrybflot.” It was also impossible to ignore such a factor as the unwillingness of the administration of the fish industry of the North to weaken its influence on foreign trade. These were the reasons why the foreign trade group of the basin was inculcated into the “Sevrybsbyt” firm. In any event, during the two years after its establishment, the new service proved its effectiveness, having gained a considerable experience in its cooperation with fishing enterprises. Almost all hard-currency operations of the Northern basin were ensured by the foreign trade firm whose foreign trade turnover constituted about 250 million American dollars. The main trends of its activity were: the export of fish products, scarp-metal, services (transporting ships and tankers charter) with the aim of getting hard currency for the budget and for the enterprises in the sum exceeding 100 million American dollars, 1 4 5