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  2. Alaskan king crab fishing - Wikipedia

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    Commercial fishing boats are between 12 and 75 m (39 and 246 ft) in length, are equipped with hydraulic systems to lift the catch, and are able to withstand the freezing weather of the Bering Sea. [2] Each fishing boat sets its own sailing schedule during the crabbing season, often staying out for days or weeks at a time.

  3. FV Northwestern - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the 1980s the Northwestern kept very busy year round, fishing opilio crab, blue king crab, red king crab, and brown king crab at different times of the year. To keep up with the increasing demand for crab in the late 1980s and early 1990s, boats needed to carry more pots (steel box shaped traps that are used to fish for crab).

  4. Pacesetter (fishing vessel) - Wikipedia

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    A partner boat reported seeing Pacesetter roll from side to side. The U.S. Coast Guard found that the vessel was overloaded with crab pots. Pope had loaded the boat with pots at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to the boat's supposed maximum. He then left the harbor and picked up an estimated 22 more bait pots on his way to the

  5. Crab fisheries - Wikipedia

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    Small crab boat in harbour at A Illa de Arousa, Galicia, Spain. Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs. True crabs make up 20% of all crustaceans caught and farmed worldwide, with about 1.4 million tonnes being consumed annually. The horse crab, Portunus trituberculatus, accounts for one quarter of that total.

  6. FV Scandies Rose - Wikipedia

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    FV Scandies Rose (Fishing Vessel Scandies Rose) [1] was a crab fishing vessel built in 1978 by Bender Shipbuilding out of Mobile, Alabama. [2] [3] Originally named Enterprise, she was registered in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. She mainly fished for king crabs, opilio crabs, and Pacific cod, in both the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. [3]

  7. Fishing vessel - Wikipedia

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    A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps/prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.

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  9. Chesapeake Bay deadrise - Wikipedia

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    One of the first types of purpose-built small powered fishing boats to appear on the Chesapeake Bay were the Hooper Island draketails of the 1920s and 1930s. The Hooper Island draketails featured construction similar to the sailing skipjacks, but were narrower as stability was not needed to carry a sail and a narrow hull made best use of the ...