The seafood industry of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) is now developing dynamically, being an important part of the economies of these republics. However, the way to actual success was difficult and laborious, as Igor Emilianov reports

Historically, the fish business was always vitally significant in the Baltic States, but its biggest expansion took place in the 1960s to 1980s, when the former Soviet Union (USSR) used the favourable geographic location of Baltic harbours to develop fishing in the Atlantic Ocean.

A