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other words, the growth of the productive forces and the alteration of the economic and production relations between separate parts of the national economic complex must entail a change in the organizational structure of management of the national economy. The latter must be secondary in character, an£ its main goal must be solving the problems connected with the economic development of the country. Thus, the Fish Ministry (Committee) must fulfill the functions of the state management of the fish economy of the country as a single productive economic complex, and the corresponding organizations, namely, concerns, associations, flexible production associations and others, must supervise the activities of fish economic organizations located in the main basins of the Russian Federation. The formation of their structure and recruitment of staff, and the nature of functions they must perform, their rights and responsibilities, all this must be carried out on a voluntary basis with an aim of satisfying legitimate wishes of independent producers. When we finally establish the organizational structure of management of the fish economy, we must begin with the formation of the market of fish products and its infrastructure as the main thing for the sake of which the fish industry and its constituent enterprises exist. Under the conditions of increasing deficit of many kinds of foodstuff, higher and higher demands are placed upon the fish industry. In this connection, the Government shows its wish to ration and distribute them more strictly. Indeed, a fully formed system of distribution is not sufficiently flexible and maneuverable. Its main principle is the fulfillment of the assignments concerning the production and supply, the distribution of fish supplies between the consumers, their realization at retail prices established by the state legislative acts concerning enterprises, cooperations, and other acts. Thus, the fishing collectives which produce up to 10% of the whole volume of fish stuffs had the right to accept or to refuse the state order. When establishing the market funds and the state order, the Center not only ignored this practice but even approved of the balances of fish products with a 10-15% excess over their real resources following from the plan of production. At the same time, the material resources furnished by the Government were not sufficient for the fulfillment of the state order and for ensuring the additional supplies. Under these conditions, the policy of a complete cost accounting and independence of enterprises was obviously discredited as well as the position of the higher organs of economic management in the person of the Ministry and the basin production associations. But the main thing is that the system of strict planning, and centralized distribution of ready goods excluded any possibility of formation of market relations on the basis of supply and demand, and this, in the final analysis, lowered not only the quantitative but also the qualitative indexes of functioning of the enterprises and organizations of the fish industry. The conception of formation of fish supplies under the conditions of the market economy must proceed from a successive transition to contracting principles of supply of fish products with the use of 5 8