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given twelve mine-sweepers, and at the end of June the first trawlers were put out to the Barents sea for fishing. One of the difficulties of this period was the provision of the fish industry with specialists, and on August 6, 1920, a resolution “On the Mobilization of People Who Worked in the Fish Industry” was adopted which had to remain the fishing branch of industry. On March 10,1921, V.I. Lenin signed a Decree on the creation of a sea research ship-institute “Plavmorin” concerned with opening up the distant grounds of the North for fishing. This was the first research fishing institution. It has been decreed that the institute was considered to be of state importance. This institute was the first in the wide net of research institutions established later on seas and oceans. The modem PINRO is a direct successor to the “Plavmorin.” To make the functioning of GlavTyba more fruitful, Lenin signed, on May 21,1921, a Decree “On the Fish Industry and Fisheries,” which eliminated the state monopoly of fishing in the waters of the republic (seas, rivers, lakes, ponds), except for the Volgo-Caspian, West-Caspian, Aral, Aguevsk, Kerch, and Murmansk regions. In the other regions it was considered to be expedient to rent secondary fishing basins to fishing associations and separate fishers who had the right to use the products they fished at their disposal afier paying the rent. An Azov-Black sea fishing research institute was established in Kerch in 1921. In 1922 a scientific fishing economy expedition headed by N.M. Knipovich worked in the Azov and Black seas. To stimulate the activity of this expedition, the government issued an order to place at the disposal of Glavryba, free of charge, a ship Besstrashny for carrying out the research in the Azov sea with instructions to the Budget Commission to consider questions connected with its maintenance. Almost at the same time, i.e., in 1922, a fish economy institute was established in Moscow. The plan of cooperation played a significant part in the development of the fish industry of the country. Cooperative associations appeared first in the Caspian basin and then in the Azov-Black sea basin. As soon as 1923 an All-Russia Constituent Congress of representatives of the unions of fishers took place in Moscow. After the Far East was liberated, a Decree “On the Order of Exploitation of Fisheries and Sea Animal Hunting Grounds in the Far East” was published on March 2,1923. In August, 192S, a Pacific Ocean fishery was established in Vladivostok, the main target of which was to study the distribution of biological resources with the aim of their rational use. The first fish cannery for producing canned salmon was built in Ust-Kamchatsk in the Far East in 1927, and another four canneries of the same type began functioning in 1928. In the same year, the first crab-canning factory ship was put into operation and the first fish meal factory was constructed in Ust-Kamchatsk. In the same years several canneries and refrigeration warehouses were constructed in the European part of the USSR. In 1926-27, the capital investments into fish industry constituted 9.1 million roubles, and in 1928 as much as 80 million roubles were assigned to the fish industry in the North and Far East. 1 3