Korelsky, V. F. Fish, fishermen and fish industry in Russia / V. F. Korelsky. - Bremen : Krebs, [1993?]-.

SUMMARY 1. By the middle of 1980s, the fish industry has become a powerful multibranch economic complex completely provided with raw materials, production capacities, research and design organizations, educational institutions, scientists, engineers, fishing crews and workers of coast enterprises. Our fish industry occupied one of the leading places in the world. At the same time, the sources of the extensive development of the fish industry were practically exhausted. The country could not continue to extend the productive capacities of fisheries, and the economic system of this branch was unable to renovate the techniques and technology of production and master the achievements of the scientific and technical progress quickly and effectively. The material and technical base of the fish industry was progressively wearing out, becoming obsolete physically and morally. Nothing that would be essentially new was introduced into the practical work of the fish industry in the last three five-year periods. By the way, this was typical of the country as a whole. The rates of development of the production of means of production exceeded those of the production of consumer goods. The incomes of the population increased many times quicker than the amount of goods to cover them. The system of labor stimulation became disorganized, which led to the lowering of discipline, violation of the production technology and lowering of the quality of production, but, what was the main thing, the increase in wages not only did not lead to any increase in labor productivity but even led to its decrease in separate cases. As before, the administrative apparatus staked on bureaucracy, orders, instructions, directives, repressions and continued to use the noneconomic methods of management that had not justified themselves. All this deepened the economic crisis, led to a reduction of output, lowering of the standards of living, social conflicts and required decisive transformations of all forms of management and economic reforms. 2. A new mechanism of production can be introduced by carrying out a number of political, economic, cultural and legal reforms in Russia. Their aim is to overcome the consequences of stagnation in the economy, liquidate the monopoly of ministries, bureaucratic structures, to give priority to branches that produce consumer goods, to stimulate business activities, form market structures capable of providing all sectors of economy with raw materials, to give them actual economic independence, and to ensure the functioning of different forms of property. We have not yet achieved much of what we proclaimed when we started reformation; first and foremost, it concerns a financial and budget stabilization, an adaptation of industries to new conditions, the rates of inflation, the “strength” of the rouble, the foreign economic policy. We have not yet 1 5 0