Ivan Dementievsky writes: Today I’ll tell you about how the Men’s Health Adventure team worked on a seiner in the Sea of Japan. We worked for more than a week, filming a report for the magazine, and I also traveled to Nakhodka to visit friends.
Fishing on a seiner is the same day after day, and is completely similar, so I decided that this report would be easiest to do in the “one day of mine” style, starting with the moment we woke up and finishing the story late in the evening.
1 Hotel at the shipyard (Livadiya). It's a closed enterprise, there's barbed wire everywhere and security everywhere, you can't just go out or come in. But to some extent we were lucky; we were given red passes, which means you can go through without being searched! And on the third floor, behind several magnetic locks, an absolutely wonderful pink room for two was waiting for the Men's Health Adventure team! After the urban gray landscapes and interiors that had haunted us for several days, this pink caramel turned out to be a real surprise!
While we were living, I heard men on the street discussing that journalists from a men's publication were accommodated in a pink room. The shipyard staff was worried about us and waited with bated breath to see how it would all end.
It was an early wake-up call, first of all we were warned that the departure to sea would be at 8 am, so we still had to get to the port. And also the famous acclimatization after a change in time zones, so every morning, checking email, Instagram, news and half-hearted jokes with a sleepy colleague on next pink bed.
2 Colleague, editor of the men's publication Men's Health Anton Zorkin. I got the impression that Anton fell asleep with his laptop and when I woke up I saw him looking at it again - he was burning at work, an alarming thought flashed. But nothing, fresh air, sea, fishing, all this will distract your colleague from editorial worries. 
3 It’s almost seven in the morning local time, Moscow time, it’s time to drink tea before bed. Since I do a lot of work via the Internet, I constantly need to keep Moscow time in mind. Each time it is difficult to calculate the difference from the current one, so my watch is based on Moscow time, my mobile is based on local time - it’s very convenient. Screensaver for mobile, Himalayan Himalayas. And if suddenly, and this happens sometimes, it seems to me that clouds have gathered over me, or some other trouble, I take out my mobile phone and look at this photo, I remember how we spent the night at 5260, how the miner covered me and Alex, and I immediately it gets easier) 
4 Two tablets before leaving. It is not clear how long we will be on the flight; no one is saying anything about this. Maybe we’ll be gone for the whole day, maybe for a day, or maybe more, so we take anti-sickness pills with us and take a couple of them at once for prevention. 
5 The brief training is over, we are ready. As usual, before the long path, sit down, think and let's go! 
6 Port in the Yuzhnomorsky village. Our little bird is standing at the pier, a fairly freshly built boat with the sonorous name Hurricane! We will catch pollock on it. While walking along the ruined pier, I tripped several times over reinforcement bars sticking straight out of the concrete, over nets and ropes, and near Uraganny I almost fell over, tripping over another cable. Here it’s better not to look around, but to look at your feet; it seemed to me that we were not walking along the pier, but going through an obstacle course. But all these are little things - all around is the sound of the surf, the fresh wind mixed with the fishy scent from the nets and the alluring distance of the bays. The weather is beautiful, the sea is calm - fishing promises to be comfortable! 
7 Hurricane close up. 
8 Having dragged their modest belongings on board, they went down so as not to disturb the deck. We were immediately seated in the common room. It serves here as a dining room, a gathering place, and a cinema hall. The ship has a crew of 7 people, and if you try, everyone will fit in. With us, the crew grew to 9 people and this caused some trouble for the guys. Thanks to them, they endured our presence steadfastly, well, a couple of children’s jokes don’t count. In general, when they ask what publication we are from, and I answer that from Men's Health, and the reaction is varied. Most often they say - oh, glamor (!!!) and all that kind of stuff. And then they compared us to a sex shop. I wanted Of course, answer that guy that he has big life complexes, but in the end he didn’t do it, we have our own task, he has his own. But in general, it’s funny to hear this from adults. In the photo, Antonio is treated to breakfast from an absolutely wonderful cook, very sociable and an extremely positive person. 
9 Looks like we're leaving! While we are not needed on deck, we sit and eat sandwiches and have our first morning tea. 
10 This is the cook’s kitchen; two people can of course fit in, but only in an embrace. As soon as the seiner departs, the cook begins to conjure in the kitchen, his task is to feed and drink everyone, you can approach him at any time, there will always be something to eat. 
11 Leaving the common cabin we find ourselves in a corridor, from where we have a view of the cabin for the sailors. There are two of them on the seiner, and one more cabin for the command staff. The corridors are narrow, the rooms are small, everything is extremely compact and functional. The ship has a toilet and a place to wash. 
12 While not far from the shore, the connection works, by the way, 3G works very well, and while we were getting permission for the Internet in our pink room, we did all the work via the mobile Internet. 
13 Anton tries on the sailor's bunk. 4 people can sleep here. Only one person can get dressed at a time; there is simply no room left for the rest. 
14 There is so little space that tea mugs hang on the ceiling near the common room. I took a photo of the ceiling from below. You approach the cook like this, you can have some tea, and he - please, takes a mug from the ceiling and shows where there is boiling water on the ship, where to find sugar and where tea leaves. Simple and functional! 
15 Well... with God! We've been on the seiner for half an hour and no one really knows how long we are, where we are, how we are... All decisions are made by the captain, here he is king and god, he decides to leave for a day, we'll leave for a day, he decides for a week - we'll stay for a week marinate in a seiner. Therefore, every time we set sail, it is somewhat exciting when we return to shore. Surely, the sailors who work here are already accustomed to such a schedule and style of work, when you live in the moment, but we are landlubbers, it was not so easy for us... 
16 Here it is, the sea! The ship, gaining momentum, took a course perpendicular to the shore. However, we won’t go far, the seiner works in the coastal strip, we catch pollock and we have nothing to do far out to sea today. 
17 We take a course towards Nakhodka. Near the cape there is quite a large concentration of ships, both small and large. We left at 8 am; many, as I understand it, have been hanging out on the wave since very early, if not since the previous day. 
18 The captain's cabin and the captain himself. 
19 Anything can happen at sea, so people take such images with them on board. 
20 Hurricane Deck. While we are walking to the fishing spot, there is silence and calm. The deck is clean, dry, the guys are drinking tea and we are looking around to see what’s what. 
21 All decisions about the route and where to throw the net are made in this wheelhouse. At the moment, the guys are discussing the actions of another seiner they met along the course. 
22 GPS And our route is on it. 
23 And here is the seiner that was discussed in the captain’s cabin. We were lucky to catch the moment when they pulled the net out of the sea. 
24 This sailor is in charge of the winch. Using a winch, the net is released into the water and then pulled back on board. With the help of a winch, the net with the catch is pulled to the place where the fish are dumped, and in general, without a winch it is simply impossible to work. Therefore, a separate person is needed here who deals only with this issue. In the photo, a sailor lubricates the winch before starting work. 
25 We went downstairs to have breakfast and drink tea, came up to the top, it was already foggy and light drizzle. June in the Far East is generally foggy and rainy, as I later found out. It immediately became colder and damp and chilly. We circled in the fog for some time, waiting for orders from the captain on where and when to drop the buoy. 
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26 Well, the fishing has begun! The net went into the water, the winch unwinds the ropes. At first something went wrong, I had to help a little to unwind the rope and then everything went like clockwork. 
27 Actually, the sailor responsible for the winch stands at the control levers of the winch all the time and monitors every moment what is happening on the ship. 
28 The time has come to pull out the nets. Along with the nets and fish, all sorts of things come on board! Now the crab traps were hooked. They will need to be unhooked and then thrown overboard near the shore. 
29 Almost every time, something else is pulled out along with the nets. I saw a lot of cables that had to be cut with a saw right during fishing and sent back to the sea piece by piece. In general, man thoroughly polluted the bottom of the sea, throwing out everything he no longer needed there. 
30 Having disconnected the crab pots from the net, the crew continues to pull the nets onto the deck. 
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32 It seems like you go to sea more than once or twice, but every time there is an exciting expectation of how many fish there will be in the nets? Everything depends on this, how much canned food the plant will make, how much the sailors will receive, and where to fish next? 
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34 Every manipulation with the network is also work with a winch. 
35 Now the net has been pulled up to the ship, the final step remains, to pull out its end containing the catch. A lonely seagull feels that there will be something to profit from here and does not lag behind our seiner. 
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37 The network is already completely on deck. Now you need to carefully pull it up and dump all the caught fish into a special tray. The ship has a hold and you can put up to 45-50 tons of fish there, but if the catch is not large. It’s easier not to bother with the hold and leave the fish in the tray. Then picking the fish out of the hold will be quite difficult. 
38 What is this? For some reason, one of the sailors, who showed me this thing, found among the catch, decided that I had eaten something like that... 
39 Here it is, wealth from the depths of the sea. 
40 Once the fish have been dumped into the tray, the nets are refilled and prepared to be thrown overboard. 
41 Four sailors are working on deck, not counting the man behind the winch. 
42 Meanwhile, we go down to lunch in a warm room. Among the pollock there was some flounder and the cook fried us some fish. 
43 And for a snack, some salad and tea. Now the guys will finish with the nets and come for lunch, we need to have lunch before this moment to make room for them. And on the zombie box, which is broadcasting here incessantly, there is some kind of disgusting program, everyone is swearing and yelling at each other. Of course, Anton and I didn’t like that the TV was on, but what can we do, the guys are watching this crap... 
44 Next cast. In total, in a day you can get three or five casts, everything happens differently. The fish we caught was very small; about a ton of pollock was caught in the net. 
45 Not only pollock is caught in the net, but some kind of miracle fish of orange color. We often come across crabs, we wanted to try them, but they were all sick and flew overboard. If there were seagulls nearby, then the birds did not allow the crabs or fish that flew into the sea to drown. 
46 This is already the third call, the nets are ready again and will be thrown into the sea. The weather completely deteriorated, it began to rain and became completely cold. 
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48 There is a light wave on the sea. In general, I felt a little dizzy, but this was out of habit. The guys told us that this is not a pitching, it happens that you can’t stand, and this is nonsense, looking into the distance, the cook summed up our conversation. 
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50 In the last catch, we pulled out two tons of pollock, which compared to the first two casts was not so bad. Among the fish caught, there were several very large specimens; this sailor is showing us one. After this casting, the seiner turned towards its home port, and it was decided to spend the night at the base. We had to sort out the network, there were problems with it, and we had to go to the pink room.
We walked for a long time, it was dark at the port, where a car was waiting for us and quickly took us to the hotel, and the guys were still unloading the caught fish to the factory. 
51 Home! Even if the house has pink hues, but after the seiner and the constant rocking, the immovable walls and floor are perceived very warmly) On the way, we stopped at the store and bought some kefir. The guards don’t believe that we don’t drink and are still trying to check whether we are bringing booze into the factory territory. I don’t feel sorry, I showed them my package, and they turned away from us in disappointment.
The difficult day was over, the next day they announced a day off for us, they would spend more than one hour sorting through the net, and most likely the seiner would not go out to sea at all. It doesn’t matter, we will find something to do, walking around the surrounding area, we found an old abandoned stadium and trained there, I just wanted to keep my tone up, Anton was preparing to climb Elbrus. By the way, right now, when I am writing these lines, being in Vologda, on a beer expedition, he is drinking tea in a tent somewhere on the slopes of a mountain. 
How fishermen have fun
Small-tonnage fishing vessels include vessels such as MRT - small fishing trawler, MRS - small fishing seiner, MRDS - small fishing vessel, BP - fishing boat. Depending on the type of small-tonnage vessels, their fishing patterns differ.
Small fishing seiner type MRS-80
MRS-80 is a small fishing seiner with a power plant of 80 hp. With. The ship's crew consisted of 8 people. The project for such vessels appeared in the 50s, when the national economy of our country was faced with the task of dramatically increasing the production of fish products. To solve it, it was necessary to create a system of fish factories and a special coastal fishing fleet.
This seiner was designed to sail no further than 20 miles from the base. He could fish using both a purse seine and a drift net. Structurally, the ship was a boat with a forecastle. The steel hull was assembled using a mixed system. The bow end with a reduced spacing was assembled using a transverse system, and the middle and aft parts had longitudinal braces from strip-bulb No. 5, two bottom, one side and two deck stringers, resting on transverse frames placed through two or three spacings. Sheathing thickness: horizontal keel - 6 mm, bottom - 5 mm, side - 4 mm, deck stringer - 5 mm, deck - 4 mm.
Transverse bulkheads divided the hull into five compartments: forepeak, forecastle, engine room, cargo hold and afterpeak. The afterpeak, in turn, is divided by two longitudinal bulkheads into a tiller compartment and two fresh water tanks.
A Bukkau-Wulf diesel engine was installed in the engine room. With the help of two angular gearboxes, power was taken to the seiner and net-tier winches located on the deck.
The engine room shaft was closed by a removable superstructure, which housed the wheelhouse, galley, latrine and dryer for work clothes. A traveling compass, a steering column with a steering wheel, a diesel exhaust shaft, a food stall, a grid of flags of the international code of signals, a ventilation deflector and a power plant control panel were mounted on the roof. Fire-fighting equipment was located on the walls, and a manual fire pump stood in front of the wheelhouse.
The anchoring device consisted of two Hall anchors, a hand windlass, screw stoppers, a cut-beam and two cradle for fastening the anchors in a traveling manner. The anchor chains were passed through fairleads cut into the forecastle visor. The mooring device included four bollards and a corresponding number of semi-hawks in the canopy and bulwarks.
The fishing devices included: a seiner platform at the stern, a tiered folding platform on the starboard side, a seiner winch that also serves as a cargo winch, a net-tier winch and a roller system on the starboard side. The cargo device had a boom with a lifting capacity of one ton. The seiner was equipped with a two-oar work boat lashed to the cargo hatch cover.
Steel transport and mining motor boat with one deck and a wheelhouse in the stern.
The vessel is designed for harvesting and transporting fish and seafood.
Navigation area: the seas of the Far East with a distance of 5 miles from the shelter.
Specifications
Load capacity, t -5.65
Number of holds -2
Displacement, t -16.05
Hold volume, m3 -7.27
Width, m -3.25
Side height, m -1.10
Load draft - 0.75
Length, m -13.50
Powerplant: diesel A-41 or diesel
YAZ-204 with RRP, el. from -70
Network winch:
Drive type - hydraulic
Traction force, kg -300
Hydraulic motor - GPR-F-630
Rotation angle, degrees - 360
fishing boat BP-15
Purpose of the vessel
- * Fishing with twin trawls, fixed nets, cast nets, bottom longlines
- * Mechanized fishing
- * Towing of fishing boats
- * Delivery of fresh catch to the shore
Main characteristics
Length between perpendiculars, m 13.5
Cargo capacity, m2 5
Main engine power, kW 110
Speed, knots 9.0
Traction force at trawling speed 3 knots, those 1.5
Number of beds 4
Small fishing vessel MRDS
The vessel is designed to fish for fish and seafood in coastal areas and areas of the open sea at a distance of 200 miles from ports.
The need of Far Eastern fishermen for small vessels of this type to replace physically outdated vessels of the fishing fleet is estimated by industry experts to be no less than 40 vessels. Vessel type - seagoing, steel, single-screw, single-deck vessel, with a developed forecastle, a wheelhouse on the forecastle deck, deckhouses on the upper deck, with a stern location of the ship and an insulated hold for transporting fish. Vessel class - KM LU2 I AZ (fishing);
Area and sailing times - limited throughout the year. Purpose: autonomous fishing for mass species of fish using trawls and snares at a distance of up to 200 miles from the shore and delivery! chilled fish to coastal and floating bases.
Main characteristics:
Sailing autonomy
fuel and provisions, 25 days
Maximum length, m 31.3
Estimated length, m 25.8
Maximum width, m 8.7
Side height, m 4.3
Fully loaded draft, m 3.2
Crew, people 12
Deadweight, t 104.5
Main engine power, kW 440
Displacement fully loaded, t 441.9
Traction force when trawling
at a speed of 5 knots in rough seas
more than 3 points, kN 50
Speed during waves
no more than 3 points, with power at
shaft 400 kW, units 9.9
Small Freezer Fishing Shrimp Trawler
project 13309
Main characteristics
longest length m 29.96
width, m 7.60
side height, m 4.14
load line draft, m 3.10
displacement by load line. t 330.00
full speed, knots 10.6
cruising range, miles 6,200
navigation autonomy, days:
- - for provisions and fresh water 20
- - on fuel and lubricating oil in the field 35
cargo hold capacity, cubic meters 195
cargo hold capacity for fish. t 90
temperature in the hold, degrees from 28
daily freezing, t 7.00
crew, people 12
Mechanization of ships can significantly reduce the amount of work on a ship, so ships are equipped with various installations, instruments, fishing equipment and auxiliary mechanisms.
Thanks to the mechanization of ships, the crew size on the ship is also reduced, for example, the installation of a network sampling machine.
The vessel can be equipped with the following winches:
Trawl winch - designed for all operations of raising and lowering the trawl, as well as for carrying out cargo work;
Warp winch;
Cable winch;
Catch pouring winch;
For example, when fishing with a net, the vessel can be equipped with the following equipment:
Net laying machine;
Net shaking machine;
Network sampling machine;
Water sampling machine;
The mechanization of electric seine retrieval is complicated by electrical safety requirements, which necessitate de-energizing the electric seine electrodes when approaching the non-water retrieval machine, mechanical disconnection of the seine and additional selection if it is used for seine retrieval using a turret. There is also no mechanization for pouring the catch from the motney after removing the wings.
The choice of watercraft for any electrical installation depends on its class and type, as well as on its technical parameters and field operating scheme. Special requirements are imposed, for example, when choosing watercraft for electrofishing units. For these, as a rule, plastic or wooden boats should be used. Duralumin boats of the “Kazanka” type are allowed to be used only after covering the boat hull with an electrically insulating layer. When placing an electrical unit on one boat, it must have special compartments for fish, separated from the primary power source (gasoline station or batteries). The carrying capacity of the boat is selected taking into account the mass of industrial equipment, electrofisher and possible catch, with a reserve in case of worsening weather (strong waves, pitching).
Issues of mechanization in fishing are inseparable from the development of perfect fishing schemes. Of course, the actual fishing pattern is determined by the specific conditions of the reservoir and the fishing situation. However, the technical documentation for any fishing device must include several typical fishing schemes for using this device.
Conclusion
fishing vessel seiner electric seine
Small-tonnage vessels are very profitable today; their use brings fewer losses associated with fuel consumption due to cruising range and the number of crew. Small-tonnage vessels are effectively used for fishing in coastal zones and inland waters.
From the very beginning of the development of fishing vessels to the present, people have been striving to reduce the amount of manual work on the vessel. For this purpose, ships began to be equipped with various equipment and devices. There are many fishing gears for which different fishing schemes are used, and in each fishing scheme there is some process that is mechanized. It is easier and cheaper to mechanize a small-tonnage vessel and equip it with any instruments and devices than large vessels. The processes carried out on a small-tonnage fishing vessel do not require a large number of crew.
Currently, stocks of fish products have sharply decreased and continue to decline, so the use of small-tonnage vessels in our time is much more reasonable and rational.
Seals, as well as any other animals that may live in the sea, ocean, lake, river, etc.
General information
Currently, there are approximately four million commercial fishing vessels on the territory of the Russian Federation. However, it is very important to note here that it is almost impossible to calculate the actual number of vessels that are used for fishing, since many people are engaged in private fishing.
Division into classes. Drifter
Fishing vessels are currently divided into several classes depending on their size, as well as the method of fishing.
There is such a class as drifter. This ship belongs to small and medium-tonnage ships. The name of this ship comes from the English word drift, which means drift. It was named so not by chance, but because fishing is carried out while the ship is quietly drifting. Catching prey is carried out using a flat net, which can reach a height of 3 to 15 meters, and its length can reach 5 km. The design features of this type of ship include the fact that it has a low side, as well as a lot of free space in the bow of the deck. This place is intended for the location of devices involved in network sampling.
Trawler
Fishing trawlers are considered one of the most common. In order to increase the number of fish caught in one go, these large vessels use trawl nets - trawls. Also on these vessels, the primary processing of all caught prey takes place. Nowadays, all fishing vessels belonging to this type are equipped with refrigeration units and freezers, which are designed to store the caught fish while the crew is still sailing. It is worth noting here that there are several subclasses of trawler. The main difference between these species is the way they fish.
There is a side-trawling fishing trawler, a stern-trawling fishing trawler, a large fishing trawler, a large autonomous trawler, etc. As their name suggests, the difference between most ships lies in the location of the trawl, which also changes the fishing process.
It is worth noting that job vacancies on fishing vessels are very rare. Despite the fact that the work is very hard, even ordinary sailors are paid good money for it.
Longliners
The next type of fishing was longline fishing. Using this method involves hunting for fish such as cod, tuna, halibut, and pollock. The essence of this method is that a hook tackle with bait is lowered into the sea. This tackle is attached to a long cable, which is called a longline. For this reason, all ships using this fishing method are called longliners.
While the ship is moving to the point where fishing will be carried out, the crew is engaged in attaching bait to the hooks. The length of the underpants can be up to 5 km. In this case, there are approximately 4,500 hooks that need to be baited. In order to lower the tackle with hooks to the very bottom, where the fish feed, anchors are used. However, there are also more advanced vessels such as longliners. The modernization consists in the fact that on board the ship there is an automatic system for attaching bait to hooks. The bait speed reaches four hooks per second.
Seiner
Seiners are fishing vessels whose sailors fish using a method called a purse seine. This seine is lifted out of the water using the ship's cargo crane. This method is used very actively for catching fish such as herring. The largest catch can be obtained in the spring if you fish in the city of Sitka, located in Alaska. By design, a seiner is the simplest fishing vessel with one deck, as well as a superstructure that is slightly offset towards the bow of the ship. At the stern of the vessel there is a working space where the seine is stored and processed, and there is also a turntable from which it is swept out during fishing. It is also worth noting that the seiner usually tows a small motor boat behind it. In order to detect a large school of herring while fishing, this vessel has an echolocator.
Floating bases
What most often happens is that a fishing vessel unloads its catch onto a fish processing ship. This category is considered the most numerous, and it usually operates far from the coast. On board such vessels there is necessarily space for storing and processing fish. Among the characteristics of such ships, one can highlight the fact that their maximum carrying capacity can reach from 2,000 to 3,000 tons. In addition, such facilities have equipment on board that is quite capable of carrying out all fish processing processes, including cleaning, cutting, freezing, etc.
The number of crew that services this vessel and works on it reaches 90 people. Photos of fishing vessels of this type are always easier to find than others, since the size of this category of ship is much larger than others. It is worth noting that they have been in areas where fishing is carried out for quite a long time, and therefore they are most often equipped with floating bases. At such bases there are administrative offices of the fleet, crew rest areas, hospitals and means of communication with the ground.
Harpoon ships or dredges
The use of harpoon vessels is justified only in hunting very large game. Most often this game is whales. Such vessels are equipped with large harpoons, to the ends of which a rope is attached, and the tip has either pointed ends or swivel legs. It is worth noting here that whale fishing is most often carried out by more than one vessel. For this purpose, entire whaling fleets are used, and storage and processing of the prey is carried out on floating bases.
However, whale fishing is currently prohibited in almost all countries except Japan, Iceland and Norway. Fishing is a very profitable business, but you should prepare for the fact that you will have to spend most of the year at sea.
I hope each of you has ever tried fish or eaten canned food, but has anyone thought about how difficult it is to remove this product from its habitat. I will try to talk about this in detail.
TO fishing vessels refers to boats, boats or vessels from which fish, whales, seals or other living resources are caught in the ocean, sea, lake or river. All of them can be divided according to the purpose of use into several types: commercial - commercial ships, amateur or poaching.
There are currently approximately four million commercial fishing vessels.
Actually the actual number fishing boats impossible to determine. In ancient times, fishermen went fishing on rafts or boats built from tree bark or hollowed out from coniferous timber. The sail attached to the mast made it possible for fishermen to go further out to sea and conduct a variety of fisheries. The ancient fishermen who created a special vessel for this fishery were considered excellent fishermen.
Over a long period of development, fishing has developed into a separate industry, which has led to the emergence of several types fishing vessels: trawlers, floating bases, drifters, seiners, tuna fishermen and other commercial products. Commercial fishing boats began to be equipped with the first radio navigation devices to identify schools of fish.
Last time fishing boats, meeting international standards, they are becoming more and more modernized. The fishing industry is considered a high-risk industry. In this regard, at the International Maritime Forum in 1959, under the leadership of the UN, a Convention was signed that defines acceptable standards for the design and construction of fishing vessels, and also stipulates the operating conditions of ship crews.
Most commercial fishing vessels are small ships measuring up to 30 meters, but some have dimensions up to 150 meters, as a rule, these are floating fish processing plants or trawlers. Fishing vessels commercial importance can be classified according to way fishing.
drifters and gillnet fishing
drifters and gillnet fishing
Drifter(English “drift” - drift) - a fishing vessel designed for catching fish while drifting using flat nets with a height of 3 to 15 meters and a length of up to 5000 meters, freely floating after they are set. A feature of the architecture of such vessels is a low side, and a free deck in the bow for mechanisms for selecting nets. Drifters have the dimensions of small or medium-tonnage fishing vessels.
a commercial fishing tests the strength of even the most experienced captains. Many sailors go fishing to earn money, but this money comes from hard, long hours of work. They work 20 hours a day, but there are places in the world where you can earn tens of thousands of dollars in a short period of time.
For skilled captains, seasonal fishing in the town of Naknek brings in more than $130,000 in net profit. The Department of Fish and Game regulates fishing times and salmon catch volumes. This is done in order to maintain the delicate balance of the ecosystem and not destroy all the fish.
Fishing in Naknek is aggressive, focusing on small bodies of water. For violation, captains face large fines of $15,000 or even prison.
The catch is carried out using a driftnet (gill) net. It is similar to a volleyball net, only it moves with the undercurrents of the tide. The mesh size of the drift net allows you to catch fish of a certain size by the gills. The net with a buoy at the end is thrown from the drifter into the water using a drum, from which it is unwound using a mechanical drive. The other end is at the stern of the fishing boat. The gill net remains in the water for a certain time, after which it is pulled onto the vessel.
trawlers and trawling
side trawling fishing trawler
Next type fishing vessels are trawlers(from the English “trawl” - trawl, seine). This is the most common type fishing vessels who use trawl nets - trawls - for a larger catch of fish and its primary processing. Trawlers, as a rule, are equipped with refrigeration units for freezing and storing fish products, and there are also several types: side trawling fishing trawler (MRTB), stern trawling fishing trawler (MRTC), large fishing trawler (BRT), large autonomous trawler (BAT), large freezing fishing trawler (BMRT), freezing canning fishing trawler (RTMC), medium fishing trawler (SRT), medium freezing fishing trawler (SRTM), freezing seiner trawler (STM), fishing crab trawler (RKT) and freezing fishing trawler (RTM).
trawling
tuna trawler
Trawlers are equipped with trawl winches, on the drums of which up to 4000 meters of cable - warp are laid, which allows fishing at depths of up to 2 km. The trawl is lifted aboard the fishing vessel through a slipway. Technological equipment trawler consists of a complex of machines and mechanized lines for cutting, washing fish, sometimes canning, as well as for producing fish meal and fat from waste. Most modern trawlers are equipped with fish-finding equipment and devices for monitoring trawl parameters, which allow you to control its movement in the water and targeting fish accumulations.
longliners and longline fishing
longline fishing
Longline fishing This is a method of industrial fishing for aquatic fish (cod, tuna, halibut, pollock), which uses hook tackle with bait attached to a long cable - a “line”. Fishing vessels using this fishing method got the name longliners.
In the state of Alaska, 120 km from the coast lies the continental shelf, in the area of which the largest populations of Pacific halibut and black cod live. In one five-day voyage, the team fishing boat can earn about $200,000. During the year, fishing vessels make about twelve trips to the shelf.
Bye fishing boat follows to the point, the team puts the bait on 4,500 hooks attached to a cable up to 5 km long, which make up a large tackle. The captain uses an echo sounder and electronic charts to explore the seabed. Each fish has its own habitat characteristics. Halibut likes shallow water with a rocky bottom, while cod prefers deeper, muddier water.
The gear is lowered to the very bottom, where the fish feed, using anchors. To deploy a line, fishermen first release signal buoys to fishing boat could find him when he returns for his catch. The first of two anchors is then released, holding the gear in place on the seabed. After this, the fishermen pull tier, throwing kilometers of cables with 5 cm hooks overboard. Then the tackle is pulled in and a second anchor and more signal buoys are thrown out. As a rule, two more tackles are set up in this way.
On more modernized fishing boats improved fishing methods. On these longliners During the installation of gear, an automatic system of hooking bait is used at a speed of four per second. Passed through a special device tier, and the team simultaneously feeds bait fish into the gutter. As a result, a cable with hooks and bait appears at the exit. Once a “fishy” place has been found, the automatic setting process begins. tiers. Kilometers of baited gear are released from the stern fishing boat.
After a certain period of time fishing boats reel in their first catch. One end of the tier is attached to a hydraulic pulley system. Additionally, for normal lifting of gear, there is a ship control panel in the stern. The first fish picked up is sent to a tray, where a special device removes the fish from the hook and drops it into a container with ice. The mechanism retracts the gear and more and more fish fall into the container. A good catch depends on the number of tackles thrown. With the appearance of the first fish on board fishing boat without fish processing equipment, you must get to the port no later than 5 days.
On fishing boat With automatic gear, the caught fish is immediately processed. One operator operates the winch, the second processes the fish, gutting the insides. After which it is washed with water and sorted by type and size. The fish are then completely frozen on small trays 7 hours after being caught. When freezers are full, the modern team fishing boat proceeds to packaging the catch. Frozen fish is placed in a container of water diluted with a small amount of chlorine, where it becomes crusty, which in turn protects it from frostbite. The fish is then placed in packages, from where it is again sent to the freezer, where the temperature is minus 15 degrees Celsius.
seiners and purse sein method
seiner
Seiner(from the English “seine” - purse seine) - this fishing boat, leading fishing fishing using a purse seine, lifted by a cargo boom. Every spring, several of the best anglers flock to the picturesque town of Sitka, Alaska. Everyone has the same goal - to catch as many herring as possible. But fishing in the area doesn't come cheap—a permit costs about $300,000. This is fast, expensive and dangerous fishing. Short period fishing sometimes decides entire destinies. For 30 minutes of fishing, one fishing vessel can earn about $200,000.
The Department of Fishing and Game designates certain areas and periods of time where herring fishing can be carried out. Aerial reconnaissance provides insight into how herring will spread in the strait. The value of herring is determined not by the carcass, but by the caviar and milk. The more mature the caviar, the higher the quality of the product.
Seiner it is usually a single-deck vessel with the superstructure offset towards the bow. At the stern there is a working space for storing and processing the seine and a turning platform from where it is swept out during fishing. Besides, seiner tows an auxiliary motor boat. The department announces the opening of the season over the radio station and fishing begins.
purse method
While fishing fishing boats find large schools of herring using sonar. Once a school is detected, an auxiliary motor boat with the end of a seine attached to it moves away from the stern of the fishing vessel and surrounds the fish. The lower part of the seine is designed in such a way that it can be pulled together and turn into a fish trap. The caught fish accumulates in a relatively small bottom part of the net. Then the ship's crew, using devices for retrieving and laying the seine, winds and compacts it, lifting the fish on board using a lifting device - a crane. When the net is tightened, the trembling catch is pumped aboard floating base- a vessel with a larger capacity.
purse seine catch
transshipment of fish from the seiner to the floating base
Sometimes one catch can reach up to 900 tons. On such a catch there is one fishing boat can earn over $1 million.
floating fish processing plants, floating bases and transport vessels
floating base
The catch is unloaded on fish processing vessels- the largest fishing fleet, operating at long distances from the coast, and having on board facilities for storing and processing fish. The modern floating plant carries out all processing processes for harvested seafood, including cleaning, cutting, freezing, briquetting, packaging, packaging, canning, fish oil extraction, and food production. The total carrying capacity of such vessels ranges from 2000 to 3000 tons, the crew size reaches 90 people.
During a long stay in fishing areas remote from home ports fishing vessels, they and their teams are served by specially designed for these purposes floating bases. Such floating bases house the administrative bodies of the fleet, means of communication with the ground, hospitals and rest homes.
Transportation in the fishing industry is carried out. It involves the delivery of commercial fish and food products to processing centers or canneries.
fish processing
At the port, fish processing companies once again sort the fish and weigh them. After that, the fish is sent via conveyors to workshops where it is frozen. Then, in this form, the fish is placed in boxes with an average weight of 600 kg and sent to. Trucks from fishing industry companies then proceed to terminals, from where the cargo can be transported to destinations around the world on large ships.
harpoon or whaling ships
Harpoon ships used for hunting whales. A harpoon is a throwing weapon with a rope attached to the rear end of the rod; the tip of the harpoon is either serrated or has swivel legs, due to which it is held in the body of a whale or fish. Often they act not alone, but as part of whaling fleets, while the harpoon ships themselves are small, and the whales they catch are processed on board floating bases (). Now whaling PROHIBITED laws of most countries, only Norway, Iceland and Japan still engage in whaling.
dredges
Japanese drager
The intake part of the dredge is a sequence of metal scrapers, behind each of which there is a wire scoop for collecting oysters and scallops raked from the seabed. The main unit of the intake part of the hydraulic dredges for collecting shellfish there is a sled with a knife in front and a chain scoop in the back; water jet nozzles located in front of the knife make it easier to remove shellfish.
Fisheries can be a profitable industry, but those who choose this path must be able to make sacrifices, because fishermen, like all sailors, are united by a longing for home and family.
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