freezer trawler

The majority of trawlers operating on the high seas are freezer trawlers.

Another decisive moment of development was in the 1960s, when the new freezer trawlers, which revolutionised the fishing industry, were first built.

A 1,300 ton stern fishing freezer trawler.

A few days earlier, Canadian inspectors had apparently boarded a Spanish freezer trawler, which was also fishing in international waters.

A freezer trawler fully processes the catch on board to customers' specifications, into frozen-at-sea fillet, block or head and gutted form.

Factory freezer trawlers can run to 60 to 70 meters in length and go to sea for six weeks at a time with a crew of over 35 people.

When the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans issued licenses to three factory freezer trawlers in 1985, Peckford declared it a "disaster of monumental proportions."

He expanded quickly, chartering his first fishing boat in 1963, and in 1965 founding a fishing company with three freezer trawlers as a joint venture with a Japanese firm.

Or the fish can be caught by freezer trawlers that freeze the fish before providing it to factories, or by factory ships which can do the processing themselves on board.

Fish processing ships consist of various types, including freezer trawlers, longline factory vessels, purse seine freezer vessels, stern trawlers and squid jiggers.

The focus has almost always been on the North Sea, although between 1965 and 1973 eight distant-water freezer trawlers belonging to Ranger Fisheries, a subsidiary of P and O, were based in the port.

The sector says that what the Moroccans are offering - the technical conditions that they want the Community fleet to submit to - is unacceptable, and there are a number of limitations on freezer trawlers and shrimp vessels that are unacceptable.

Briefly, this trade consisted of large factory ships or latterly, freezer trawlers, lying in the more sheltered anchorages around the coasts of the UK where they would load fresh herring and mackerel from British fishing vessels directly arrived from their fishing grounds.

There were at least four large Russian Factory ships just inside the Summer Isles, the rest consisted of a mixed bag of Polish, Bulgarian, and even Italian freezer trawlers, in all we counted more than thirty ships awaiting their turn to load mackerel from the Scottish purse netters.