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2. Going fishing in Lake Erie? New fish cleaning station open at ...

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   A new fish cleaning station opened at Lampe Marina, on the south end of the parking lot, in Erie on May 1, 2024. The station will be open 24 hours a day, May 1 through Oct. 31, 2024.

3. Careening - Wikipedia

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   Careening (also known as "heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock. It is used for cleaning or repairing the hull. Before ship's hulls were protected from marine growth by fastening copper sheets over the surface of the hull, fouling by this growth would seriously affect the ...

4. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   1. (galley (kitchen)) The compartment of a ship where food is cooked or prepared; a ship's kitchen. 2. (galley) A type of ship propelled by oars, used especially in the Mediterranean for warfare, piracy, and trade from the 8th century BC to the 16th century AD, with some in use until the early 19th century. 3.

5. Fishing trawler - Wikipedia

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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.

6. Electrofishing - Wikipedia

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   Electrofishing. Scientists carrying out a population and species survey using electrofishing equipment. Electrofishing is a fishing technique that uses direct current electricity flowing between a submerged cathode and anode. This affects the movements of nearby fish so that they swim toward the anode, where they can be caught or stunned.

7. Jacob's ladder (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   This is the Jacob's ladder. While they were a popular way of boarding a vessel or carrying out shipside maintenance during the era of wooden ships, and even as recently as the 1950s, their use today on board modern merchant ships is minimal due to obvious safety issues. Today, Jacob's ladders are used only to board lifeboats and liferafts and ...