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fishing trawler
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commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- fishing vessel
- Image
- Pino Ladra 29.jpg
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- Commons category
- Trawlers
- topic's main category
- Category:Trawlers
- different from
- naval trawler
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Encyclopedic overview
The Irish RSW Pelagic Trawler Brendelen SO709 in Skagen harbour Fishing intensity extracted from Automatic Identification System data of EU trawlers greater than 15 metres in length, in the period October 2014 – September 2015 (see Main Map for full resolution)
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets that are pulled along the bottom of the sea or in midwater at a specified depth. A trawler may also operate two or more trawl nets simultaneously (double-rig and multi-rig).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fishing trawler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.