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coincident with the zones of activity of the fleet of the state fish industry associations. All this shows the necessity and mutual advantage of the development and extension of economic ties between the fishing collectives and state fish industry enterprises. A characteristic feature of location of the fish industry enterprises (ocean fishing) is their concentration in five large basins (regions), namely, Far-Eastern, Northern, Western, Southern and Caspian, which are large economic territorial complexes (the first two basins are completely within the Russian Federation, and the others only partly). The fish industry is one of a few branches of the national economy, which is in constant contact with the world market and is integrated into the international economic activity. The associations and enterprises of the fish industry catch fish and hunt sea animals throughout the water area of the World Ocean. More than 50% of the fleet work in the international waters, including the 200-mile zones of foreign states. The peculiarity of the fish industry of the country is the developed foreign trade carried out on the basis of 68 interstate agreements and 15 international conventions, 32 representations of the fish industry function abroad, dozens ofjoint enterprises have been established and are functioning both on the territory of our country and abroad. The volume of export-import, barter and other operations in all directions of activity constitutes more than a milliard roubles a year. In the last years, the activity of our fishing fleet in the World Ocean encounters a serious counteraction on the side of other naval states with the aim of removing competitors endangering their national programs in the field of fishing and on the side of various nonstate organizations, purposefully and groundlessly speaking against the large-scale fishing of the Russian fleet in their waters. On the pretext of protection of the environment and preservation of the fish supply, they suggest the organization of preserves or a drastic restriction of the volume of catch. These counteractions are supported by political leaders and the public, in our country as well. All this is done without due account of the fact that the fish resources are reproducible and their use is placed on a strictly scientific basis. A number of countries demand that only a modern, reequipped fleet should work in the 200-mile zones and in the framework ofjoint enterprises. The changes in the political situation in a number of regions which are of importance to Russia as sources of fish supplies, in particular, the coastal waters of Namibia, Western Sahara, Angola, Peru, and the Antarctic as a whole affect, often adversely, the efficient work of the fish industry. Some time earlier, Minrybkhoz of the USSR together with the Foreign Ministry of the USSR tried to do everything to neutralize negative effects of the situation abroad on the activity of the fishing fleet of our country in order not to preserve the level of the output of fish stuffs attained but also to follow the “strategic” aims of its increase in future. However, because of the shortage of means that the Minrybkhoz of the USSR possessed, and also because of the fact that many international processes were political in character, their negative influence on the fish economy increased. In this connection, we deem it necessary to strengthen the role played by the Russian Federation in the protection of 4 8