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KAMCHATKA: SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT
V. E. Bykasov
Institute of Volcanology, Far East Branch, RAS,
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
The output and processing of hydrobioresources yielding 50% of gross and 80% of saleable production (in money calculus) and 90% of export goods exchange in the basis for the development of Kamchatka as an independent economic region. As formerly, salmon remains the main resource which provides 40% of fishery profits, although it makes up only 5–7% (45000–60000 t/yr) of the regional catch.
However, as a result of improvident target practice conducted by fish industry itself for gross output and hence excessive catch, food-fish resources of the Kamchatka hudroecoregion were reduced during last 40 years by 2.2-2.5 million tons of yearly output. And only during last 3 years regional catch was reduced from 1.4 million tons in 1990 to 97000 tons in 1992.
Moreover, as a result of 49-year adherence to the standard model of the so-called combined development to commercial level of the production capacity of all natural resources, region […]