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A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers, and their use for fishing has grown dramatically. Some factory ships are equipped to serve as ...
Pseudopangasius Bleeker, 1862. Neopangasius Popta, 1904. Sinopangasius Chang & Wu, 1965. Pangasius is a genus of medium-large to very large shark catfishes native to fresh water in South and Southeast Asia. The term "pangasius" is sometimes used to specifically refer to the commercially important basa fish, P. bocourti.
Galway hooker. The Galway hooker ( Irish: húicéir) is a traditional fishing boat used in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland. The hooker was developed for the strong seas there. It is identified by its sharp, clean entry, bluff bow, marked tumblehome and raked transom. Its sail plan consists of a single mast with a main sail and two ...
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.
The Filet-O-Fish is a fish sandwich sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's. [3] It was created in 1962 by Lou Groen , a McDonald's franchise owner in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] in response to declining hamburger sales on Fridays due to the practice of abstaining from meat on ...
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place a fish fillet, skin side down, in the center of a piece of parchment paper. Season with a pinch each of salt and pepper. Place 1 fennel slice, 2 lemon slices, 3 ...
The zander ( Sander lucioperca ), sander or pikeperch, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Percidae, which also includes perch, ruffe and darter. It is found in freshwater and brackish habitats in western Eurasia. It is a popular game fish and has been introduced to a variety of localities outside its native range.
Ship stability. Ship stability is an area of naval architecture and ship design that deals with how a ship behaves at sea, both in still water and in waves, whether intact or damaged. Stability calculations focus on centers of gravity, centers of buoyancy, the metacenters of vessels, and on how these interact.