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ships that made it possible to process the catch directly on board and, what is the main thing, to open up new regions for fishing, far from the coastal bases. The science connected with fishing played a considerable role in solving this problem. As long as 1938, the Soviet scientists suggested that the Atlantic herring migrated far to the north, up to the western shores of Spitsbergen. To verify this hypothesis, two ships, N. Knipovich and Avangard were sent there in 1939. Near the western slope of the Medvezhinsko-Spitsbergen bank, they found huge schools of large 30-cm-long herring. This herring got the name of “polar zalom” (“polar jam”). This region proved to be very promising. In 1941, the investigations were continued until the war put an end to it. In 1946, the expeditionary fishing-boats Rynda and Kashaloi went to this region again and again were successful. This was the reason for organizing the industrial fishing of herring in these waters. Beginning with 1950, dozens of ships from Murmansk and Kaliningrad began regular visits there. To organize herring fisheries, a special administration called “Murmanseld' ” was established in 19S0. This was the beginning of a large herring fishery in the ocean. The investigation of distant regions was actively extended, which was simplified by the appearance of a new type of fishing-boats in 1955-56, a large trawler with stem trawling, refrigerating boxes and cooled holds of Pushkin type. In 1956, large schools of ocean perch were revealed near the Flemish Cape. In 1957-60, the regions of the Large Newfoundland bank and Labrador were opened up. Administrations of fish reconnaissance, such as the Northern Industrial Fishing Reconnaissance, Western Reconnaissance, the Azov-Black sea Industrial Reconnaissance and the Pacific Ocean Management of Reconnaissance and the Research Fleet were established whose task was to reveal and study new regions suitable for industrial fishing. Their duty was also to inform fish industry institutions of the results of investigations. Regular investigations of the north-western coasts of Africa began in 1956-57. In 1961, the first expedition of the Atlantic Research Institute was sent to study the fish resources in the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic on board the Muksun. In 1961-62, one of these expeditions discovered rich supplies of fish in the region of Namibia. In 1962, the regions of the Georgess Bank were opened up for fishing. In 1964-65, complex regular investigations of the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic began, for the purpose of industrial fishing, using ships belonging to the All-Union Research Institute of Fishing and the Atlantic Research Institute. In 1964, an industrial fishing expedition to the Indian Ocean was organized, which discovered large supplies of fish off the north-eastern coasts of Aftica, off the coast of the Arabian sea and off the coasts of India. 2 2