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attained due to diversification of production. In this connection of essential importance is the problem of technological compatibility and the common aim of small enterprises and cooperatives resulting from the denationalization of economic complexes. Arbitrariness is inadmissible here. The development of compound economic structures of the joint venture type not always entails a rise in the efficiency of the production processes. By the end of 1991, the fish industry included more than 50 joint enterprises with the participation of firms, companies, and enterprises of developed capitalist countries, whose share constituted one third of the registered fund. The activity of these enterprises gives some additional opportunities for increasing the export potential of the industry. However, the effect of their functioning in the fish economy is as yet insignificant Only 43% of the total number of registered enterprises cany out production activity, or render services. 3.2. Improving the Fish Industry Economic Mechanism under the Conditions of Intensification Of special importance for the development of the economy in Russia is the comprehension of the essence, content, and trends of the alteration of the system of production relations. In this connection, it is expedient to consider the problems of interrelation of the process of intensification of production and a further development of the system of production relations. It is difficult to find any special literature devoted to this problem. With rare exception, in scientific papers the process of intensification of production was only connected with the development of productive forces. However, it is known that productive forces and production relations are two sides of a definite production process, which are closely interrelated and are the elements of a single system. Therefore, we cannot connect the intensification process only with the development of productive forces. As a rule, the intensification of production is investigated only in connection with such phenomena as the scientific and technical progress, better use of the factors of production as a result of a qualitative alteration of their constituent parts, a reduction of resources needed for the output of a unit ofproduction and a number of other parameters which directly characterize the level of productive forces development. In this case, the production relations serve at best as a social background for the intensification. The drawback of this approach not only manifested itself in the theoretical one-sidedness, but also (what is more important) produced a negative effect on practical deeds. Indeed, although many people frequently spoke from high rostrums about the necessity of the all-round intensification of the national economy, the level and the rate of the process of intensification are falling down in almost all branches of the economy, and in some places extensive methods of managing the economy still predominate. It seems to me that this is directly connected with insufficient account of the relations between the process of intensification and the development of production relations. It should be pointed out, as a substantiation of what has been said, that the old economic mechanism did not “accept” the 6 8