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

By early 1930,340 new fish factories were working in the country, 16 stationary factories and 3 fish-factory ships. The rehabilitation period in the fish industry ended in 1930. Whereas in 1920 the fall of the catch was stopped and it constituted 2.6 million centners, in 1930 it exceeded the catch of 1913 by almost 25 percent and constituted 13.0 million centners. In 1930,160 million roubles were allocated to the development of fish industry. Well-equipped trawlers were put into a lot production.by the ship-builders of Leningrad In 1932, the first trawler of home construction came to Murmansk. In 1932, the first whale-boat flotilla Aleut consisting of a whale catcher base and three steam whale-killer boats began functioning at the Pacific Ocean. In the Northern grounds the number of fishing trawlers increased to ninety. The first fish- processing refrigerating factory ships appeared (such as The Komsomol Member o f the Arctic, Food Industry, and others). In the years preceding the Second World War Murmansk was quickly developing as the center of fish industry of the North. A port was constructed, then a fish factory and a ship-yard. Collective fisheries were developing alongside the state enterprises. Motor-boat fishing stations (MFS) were established in 1932 to assist fisheries. They provided for the mechanization of fish processing. Whereas in 1932 there were only seven MFS, in 1940 they amounted already to 85 and included 1211 ships. The fleet belonging to collective fisheries increased 5.8 times during eight years. On the eve of the War, the fish industry possessed 64 refrigeration warehouses (three times that of 1930), 70 canneries with the capacity of 363.8 million cans a year, 36 coast fishery factories. In accordance with the prewar five-year plans, the self-propelled fish-processing fleet increased from 1336 units in 1930 to 5987 units in 1940 (4.4 times). The research connected with fish industry was rapidly developing. In 1929 the Pacific Ocean Research and the Fishing Station was reorganized into a Pacific Ocean Institute for Fish Industry, and in 1934 it got the name of TINRO. In 1932, its branches were established in Kamchatka and Sakhalin, and in 1959 in Magadan. To study the new fishing regions a Pacific Ocean fish reconnaissance was organized in 1933 and an Aral biological research station appeared in 1929. The Second World War (1941-1945) stopped the development of the fish industry. The material damage caused by the war to this industry constituted about a billion roubles. In the postwar years a special period in the development of fish industry, the period of a wide offensive on the open regions of seas and oceans begins. New ports and fish processing bases were constructed to develop ocean fishing and bring the fish-boat ports closer to the sites of the fish products consumption. In 1946-47, the Administration of the Ocean Fishing appeared in Kaliningrad on the Baltic sea, and the Baltic republics organized their own fishing bases. In 1946 an Administration of the Antarctic Whale Tankers was established in Odessa and, when new distant whale catching grounds were discovered, a question arose of creating new ports for fish-fleet on the south of the country. 1 4