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1.4. Social and Economic Problems Facing the Fish Industry Complex Today As all other people of our country, fishermen are indignant at the situation when they cannot buy goods they need with the increasing mass of money they have. The only way out of this situation is to make the production potential of the enterprises and the remuneration of labor of their workers correspond to the final results of the work. The number of workers occupied in a certain kind of production must be decreased when the catch, output and supply of goods become lower, and the base and the additional pay must be closely correlated with the final results. This is not so in the fish industry today. The economic management, which can be figuratively called “self-consumption,” is inconsistent with the new economic mechanism and will lead to a complete bankruptcy. The catch and the supply of fish products were affected not only by the unsatisfactory renovation of the fish fleet but also by the loss of a real control of fisheries both in the regions and in the industry as a whole, because of the violation of the fixed organizational structure of management. Thus, the termination of the reduction of volumes of catch, output, supply and consumption offish and fish products, as well as the elimination of the disparity between the labor input and the wages collected, which we could observe for a long time and which led, in the final analysis, to the inflation process, must be the starting pointfor the realization of the conception of transition to market relations. What are the main points of the conception of the transition of the fish industry to market relations, which, naturally, must be supplemented with the most modem mechanisms of realization of the principal positions? It is necessary to complete the formation of a new organizational structure ofmanagement o f the fish industry, and to work out a program of privatization to envisage the transformation of state-owned property into some other forms of property. To continue, where it is expedient, the subdivision of highly concentrated industries by establishing a lot of small and medium enterprises, and to transfer separate state enterprises and organizations (which do not promise any financial improvement) to collective fisheries. This hard work presupposes the creation of a market infrastructure, establishment of joint-stock companies, leasing enterprises to their personnel and also conveying the right of possession of small enterprises, organizations and industries to collectives, families and for private use. The state regulation must be carried on via state orders brought to the notice of the industry by the Government ofRussia at the level o f state needs. The proportion of the state order in the total output of the enterprise must constitute 30-35%. Thus, the first main point is the organization of the fish industry to suit market relations. In all the countries where the fish industry is highly developed, the control of the development of the fish industry is carried out by ministries and departments which are the state organs. The experience of such countries as the USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, Norway testifies that the Federal Government possesses full power in the administration of the resources of fish and sea animals and the regulation of their use in the 200-mile zone. Thus, in the USA and Canada the Federal Government, 2 9