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Chapter 2 Theoretical Problems Connected with Management of the Fish IndustryComplex under the Conditions of Intensification of Economic Reforms The fish industry and fisheries in Russia are a complex of branches of industry, the sphere of circulation and the objects of the infrastructure which envelope all the aspects of the fish economy from reconnaissance and processing to the sale of ready goods. This complex can only be compared to the agricultural complex, with the only difference that the integration in the agro-industrial branches is realized only in the sphere of control; whereas in the aqua-industrial complex all the production processes are combined, which makes it possible to realize the whole cycle of previously nonhomogeneous processes, such as the search for fish, fishing, processing, up to the stage of ready production and its transportation, at one and the same enterprise (fish-factory ship) and by the same crew. 2.1. Theoretical Problems Connected with Reorganization of Management of the Fish Industry Complex The drawbacks of the industrial mechanism functioning under the conditions of the administrative control of the fish industry complex are typical, in a certain modification, of the industrial mechanism functioning in any other branch of national economy. It is quite obvious that this mechanism does not correspond to the all-round intensification. It retards the process of intensification and contradicts it We can see why, irrespective of all declarations concerning the intensification of industry, the share of extensive factors in the output of ready goods is so large. For the industrial mechanism not to contradict, but, conversely, to correspond to the principles of intensification, we need far-reaching reforms in the production relations. In the new system of economic relations, the principal economic section (PES), which realizes versatile activities in the material and nonmaterial spheres of economy, becomes the basic section. It seems to be quite correct to begin reorganizing the control, in accordance with the strategic plans, precisely with this section. Although every enterprise is a part of a single integral system, it can also function as a real (economically independent) section of this system. It should be emphasized that this “detail” makes qualitative changes in the state of the enterprise. Its personnel becomes the subject of property and the enterprise becomes a commodity producer. All this requires the formation of the corresponding organizational and economic environment different in principle from the environment in which the 3 5