Fishing Trawlers
Refrigeration machinery aboard lets fishing
trawlers stay out for several weeks filling the hold. A trawler is a
fishing vessel designed for the purpose of operating a trawl, a type
of fishing net that is dragged along the bottom of the sea.
A trawler can also refer to a cruising trawler
which is a recreational boat so named because it resembles a fishing
trawler.
Sailing trawlers were limited to trawling
at depths of 55-75 meters, but modern fishing trawlers often trawl to
900 meters, with experiments having gone even deeper. Sizes of modern
trawlers vary, but range up to 2,500 to 3,000 tons.
One of the biggest ports in England for
trawlers was the city of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire on England's
north-east coast.
The largest fishing trawlers port in Europe
from the 1970s onwards has been Peterhead in the North-East corner of
Scotland. In its prime in the 1980s Peterhead had over 500 trawlers
staying at sea for a week each trip. Peterhead has seen a significant
decline in the number of vessels and the value of fish landed has been
reduced due to several decades of over fishing which in turn has reduced
quotas.
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