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A freezer trawler fully processes the catch on board to customers’ specifications, into frozen-at-sea fillet, block or head and gutted form. Factory freezer trawlers can run to 60 to 70 meters in length and go to sea for six weeks at a time with a crew of over 35 people. They process fish into fillets within hours of being caught.
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets that are pulled along the bottom of the sea or in midwater at a specified depth. A trawler may also operate ...
Vladivostok 2000 (ex- Damanzaihao) is the world's largest fish factory ship [5] with a mass of 49,367 tons and 228 metres (748 ft 0 in) in length. [2] Since July 2019, the vessel is Russia-flagged, owned by Pacific Marine Trawlers Ltd and operated by Dalmoreprodukt, both located at Vladivostok. Previously the ship was sailing under flag of ...
The fishing vessel Gaul was a deep sea factory ship based at Hull, United Kingdom. She was launched in December 1971 by Brooke Marine of Lowestoft, entering service during 1972 with the Ranger Fishing company, where she was registered at North Shields as Ranger Castor, SN18. She was renamed when Ranger Fishing was bought by British United ...
In 1947, the company Christian Salvesen, based in Leith, Scotland, refitted a surplus Algerine-class minesweeper (HMS Felicity) with refrigeration equipment and a factory ship stern ramp, to produce the first combined freezer/stern trawler in 1947. [18] The first purpose-built stern trawler was Fairtry built in 1953 at Aberdeen. The ship was ...
The Ross Group was a British food company founded in Grimsby, England in 1920. The Ross brand remains prominent in the retail frozen fish market. David Ross, the co-founder and significant shareholder in mobile telephone retailer The Carphone Warehouse, is the grandson of J Carl Ross. Originally a small family-owned fish merchanting company ...
Kirkella is a British cod and haddock freezer trawler based in Kingston upon Hull, England. Part of the UK’s distant waters fishing fleet, the vessel was registered in June 2018, is 81 m (266 ft) long, has a 16 m (52 ft) beam, and measures 3,976 gross tons. The crew's accommodation contains a gym and cinema.
The Super Trawler issue was subject to a court challenge in 2014 [10] and an Australian Government scientific report published in late 2014. [11] Before and after this report there was reaffirmation that super trawlers over 130 metres, like Margiris , would not be permitted under Australia's environmental protection law, yet controversy ...