Now the target is only a single factory trawler: the Atlantic Star.

A marine biologist, he owns a share in a factory trawler that takes pollock from the Bering Sea.

Meanwhile, huge factory trawlers vacuum the ocean with nets that could hold 12 jumbo jets.

So I was delighted to hear about dories firsthand, and I wish the factory trawlers were not trying to empty the oceans.

The factory trawlers took the same amount in 15 years.

It manages a fleet of large catcher-processor, also known as factory trawlers, where the fish is caught, processed and frozen on board.

The bulk of the nation's domestic wild shrimp still come from big factory trawlers working the Gulf's open waters.

On average, about 300,000 tonnes of cod were landed annually until the 1960s, when advances in technology enabled factory trawlers to take larger catches.

By the late 1960's, factory trawlers from the Soviet Union were working United States waters.

But the idea extends to include factory trawlers supporting a fleet of smaller catching vessels that are not carried on board.