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

The reorganization of management of the fish industry basins used the idea of establishment of the BIA formed on the basis of the leading structural units (associations). In almost all the basins (except for the Caspian basin), the transporting and marketing associations established were chosen as leading structural units. It was first planned to establish transporting and marketing associations as independent industrial subdivisions in the framework of the basin economic complex. Various points of view were discussed when this problem was analyzed. In particular, the creation of transporting and marketing associations followed from the general tendency of perfecting the organizational structure of management in the basins. One of the problems was that on their way from the fishing grounds the fish and fish products pass through several independent organizational structures. The interests of each of these structures (transporting fleet—port—wholesale trade—fish-processing enterprise—shop) were directed not at the satisfaction of needs of concrete consumers but at the volume (gross) indexes, since the results of the activity of each link of this “chain” were estimated precisely according to these indexes. The establishment of a transporting and marketing association made it possible to resolve, to a certain extent, this contradiction, namely, —to liquidate the majority of independent links of this chain not connected either economically or organizationally); —to concentrate management of all industrial processes in the transporting and marketing association, which made it possible to solve the arising problems more efficiently and also to reduce, less painfully, a considerable number of subdivisions of management staff duplicating one another and to free a considerable number of employees of the management staff for some other kinds of work; —to merge production subdivisions of the same type (refrigerator stores, bases, etc.) in order to make them more efficient, renouncing the unnecessary operations of transporting fish and fish products from one refrigeration store to another, —to establish direct economic relations between the consumers and associations, which made it possible to determine more exactly the requirements for the assortment and quality of production. Among the negative factors that followed was the absence of direct relations between the consumers of production and its producers. The transporting and marketing association determined the assortment of production to be put out proceeding from their possibilities and goals, i.e., practically dictated their will to the producers and consumers. Under these conditions, it was necessary to find the forms of activity of the fishing fleet and the coast fish-processing enterprises that would put the transporting and marketing associations in the position of intermediary agents working for a strictly establishing bonus or getting a definite percent from the realization price. However, it was never actually done. But, in the final analysis, it was precisely the fishing fleet and the coast fish-processing factories that were the real producers who had to be estimated by the consumer, and this estimation is expressed first and foremost in the demand for their production. But the high economic efficiency of the transporting and marketing associations was possible even without raising the technological level of the fishing fleet and of the coast fish-processing enterprises. The transporting and marketing association had to participate in this work with a part of its profit by 4 5