Fishing crafts

FISHING CRAFT / FISHING VESSEL

AIM:To get familiarized with various types of fishing crafts.

The term fishing vessels denotes mobile floating objects of any kind, size operating in fresh water, brackish water and marine areas and used for catching, transporting, landing, preserving and/or processing of fish, shell fish and other aquatic animals (excluding whales), residues and plants. The fishing vessels can be classified on the basis of different criteria like depth of operation, materials used in the construction duration of voyage, size of vessel,type of propelling system and in accordance with the actual operations etc.,

 catamaran  canoes

Catamaran

Canoes

Purse seiner Trawler 

Purse seiner

Trawler

Courtesy: trimarinegroup.com and gulfofmaine-census.org

Last modified: Wednesday, 25 April 2012, 5:42 AM