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

The principle of management of basins that formed long before the People’s Commissariate of Fish Industry was established in 1939, corresponded and still corresponds to the objectives set before the fish economy. The associations, enterprises and organizations located in the basins are united by a single base, the necessity of regulating the fishery with due account of the natural and artificial reproduction of fish supplies. The all-Union fish industrial associations acting in the basins up to December 1,1988, constituted economic complexes with a developed infrastructure, interior cooperation and specialization of enterprises. Single transport, trade and supply organizations were established and successfully functioned in every basin as well as single organs of reconnaissance of fish supplies and of forecasting their rational use, single servicing, and repair yards. Nevertheless, far from all problems found a solution in the framework of the All-Union fish industrial organizations. This referred, first of all, to the structure of research organizations established in the basins. Quite recently, a large number of research institutes and designing organizations functioned in the basins, which were occupied with the themes being worked out by the leading subdivisions rather than with the investigation of specific trends of the development and technological re-equipment of the fleet and enterprises of the basin. In turn, this state of affairs forced the directors of industrial associations to look for the possibilities of establishing their own regional research and design organizations. All this adversely affected the efficiency of using the scientific and technical potential of the industry, led to duplicating the themes treated, to excessively long periods needed to work out separate themes and provoked difficulties in introducing research and development programs into the economy. The organizational structure of ship repairs in the basins was not satisfactory since two organizational structures functioned here simultaneously, namely, a basin structure subjected to the all- Union fish economy associations and a Union one represented by “Remrybflot.” The practice of this subdivision of the fish economy has shown that this parallel existence of similar industrial structures cannot be justified either by economic, industrial, or organizational needs but only scattered forces and means allocated for the repair and reconstruction of the fleet It should also be emphasized that the practice of planning and carrying out repairs itself was not aimed at attaining the end result of the work of the fish industry, i.e., the increase in the catch of fish and processing on board the fish-factory ships. Ship-repairing enterprises were mainly interested in increasing the volume of ship repairs and were not stimulated to increase the periods of faultless work of ships between repairs. The planning and management of the arrangement of the fishing, transporting and auxiliary fleet are carried out at the level of a single basin organ as well as in the open part of the World Ocean in accordance with the allocated quotas of fishing and sea animal hunting. The organization of license fishing, management of the work of foreign ships in the economic zone of the CIS, the supply of the fleet with fuel and other material and technical resources, the transporting of the production from the fishing grounds, the coordination of the work on ports (which is especially important for the Far- Eastern, Northern and Western basins), the training of the personnel are also carried out at the basin level. 4 3