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Moon pool. A moon pool is an equipment deployment and retrieval feature used by marine drilling platforms, drillships, diving support vessels, fishing vessels, marine research and underwater exploration or research vessels, and underwater habitats. [1] It is also known as a wet porch. [2] It is an opening found in the floor or base of the hull ...
A fishing sinker, plummet, or knoch is a weight used in conjunction with a fishing lure or hook to increase its rate of sink, anchoring ability, and/or casting distance. Fishing sinkers may be as small as 1 gram (0.035 oz) for applications in shallow water, and even smaller for fly fishing applications, or as large as several pounds (>1 kg) or ...
Solunar tables are tables that fishermen and hunters use to determine the best days of the month and times of the day for catching fish and hunting game. Knowing the time of the tides, sunrise, and sunset help fishermen predict when fish are going to bite. For hunters, the tides are not a factor.
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F/V Northwestern is an Alaskan crab, Pacific cod, and salmon tendering commercial fishing vessel featured in the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. To date the Northwestern is the only vessel to have featured on all 20 seasons of Deadliest Catch as well as the pilot series America's Deadliest Season. The vessel is owned and operated by ...
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Otter (fishing device) The otter is a fishing device constructed with two parts, an otter board and a fishing line. It is steered by pulling on the line then letting stack so the slide mechanism on the board operates to switch direction. It may be used from a boat or pulled from the shore. It is very difficult to retrieve from a boat once fish ...
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 ...