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of the fleet and coast installations has not shown any tendency to their reduction with the establishment of market relations. The violations of the organization of labor and interruptions in supply increased the periods of idling of the equipment and the qualified labor resources. The mounted unique slips, cranes and elevators, the conveyers of fish plants, the approach lines, the powerful ships do not begin working or use only half of their capacity because of the general crisis in the economy. This leads to the insufficient output of fish production and to the rise in prices. Our “most advanced theories” of the market economy have, in this respect, one serious practical drawback, namely, they cannot give a clear answer to the following question: What place in the operative economic analysis must the productivity of labor, the efficiency of use of assets and resources when we set the target of an increase in the profit occupy? We have forgotten these economic constants and ... are raising prices. In our opinion, not the “maximization in general” of these three indexes, but a specific search for their optimal relations, is now the “natural and real basis” for a competitive power of fish enterprises which want to get high profits instead of directly extorting high prices. We are sure that with time the administration of the fish enterprises (understood in the broad sense of the word), equipped with the theories of marketing, management and computerization, will return to the analysis of productivity of human labor, of total expenses and the total productivity given by the resources. To my mind, the attempts of Soviet economists to create an artificial “general index of the economic efficiency,” which would combine labor productivity, cost and capital productivity, were sure to be unsuccessful since the system of instructions, rejecting the enterprise, competition and variety of the forms of property, could not introduce it even in the form of business proposals. 3.6. Analysis of Proportions of Goods Produced at the Expense of a Change in Labor Productivity and in the Number of Production Personnel An increase in the volume of production of the fish industry and its separate enterprises can be achieved by changes in labor productivity and in the number of working personnel. More often than not, it is a single process, less frequently the output increases only due to the growth of the labor production. Figuratively speaking, an increase in the output is attained by “number and skill.” However, at the present stage of development of the fish industry, it is more expedient to use skill than to increase the number. First and foremost, it is necessary to raise the efficiency of the economic, technical and organizational measures which provide for the growth of labor productivity. An economist must be able to analyze the situation so that it would become clear what part of the increase of production is ensured by different factors and, first of all, by labor productivity and by the personnel in number. The ability of making such an analysis is today one of the indicators of real qualification of economists. The contemporary economic science has a sufficient arsenal of economic and mathematical methods for carrying out an exact economic analysis of the proportions of the growth and the increment of production, which are due to an increase in labor efficiency and a reduction in the number of 8 4