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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 ...
The boats that are used for trawling are called trawlers or draggers. Trawlers vary in size from small open boats with as little as 30 hp (22 kW) engines to large factory trawlers with over 10,000 hp (7.5 MW). Trawling can be carried out by one trawler or by two trawlers fishing cooperatively (pair trawling). Trawling can be contrasted with ...
On September 5, 1972, at 10:25 [1] ICGV Ægir, under Cdr. Guðmundur Kjærnested's command, encountered an unmarked trawler fishing northeast of Hornbanki.The master of this black-hulled trawler refused to divulge the trawler's name and number, and, after being warned to follow the Coast Guard's orders, played Rule, Britannia! over the radio.
The basic idea of a mother ship is that it can carry small fishing boats that return to the mother ship with their catch. But the idea extends to include factory trawlers supporting a fleet of smaller catching vessels that are not carried on board. They serve as the main ship in a fleet operating in waters a great distance from their home ports.
MS American Monarch is a factory stern fishing trawler.At over 6,000 GRT, the ship can process 1,200 tons of fish a day.British historian David Edgerton has noted that: "since the total global catch is 100 million tons per annum ... 300 of these ships could catch all the fish now caught worldwide".
MFV Pere Charles DA 34 was a French-built Irish-flagged fishing trawler which sank on 10 January 2007 off the coast of Wexford with the loss of all hands on board.. Pere Charles was built in 1982, and at the time of her sinking, had a gross tonnage of 100 metric tons and an overall length of 20 meters. [1]
From 1942 until the formal end of fighting on 14 August 1945 (), the YP-278, under the command of Capt. Harry J. Conway (1942 until December 1944) and Lt. D. Dudley Bloom (December 1944-July 1945), ran food supplies to ports along the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (until February 1945) and to those Philippines safely under Allied control (March–August 1945) in preparation for a planned ...
Muletta. A muletta is a variety of Portuguese fishing trawler, a sailing ship used to catch fish by means of large nets.They are between 45 and 60 feet (14 and 18 m) long, with an average of about 50 feet (15 m), and are crewed by between 10 and 18 sailors.