Reasonable estimates range between 20 and 100 vessels of varying size, from dories to larger vessels, used primarily for commercial, sport or sustenance fishing.
As the industry grew, company-owned steamers carrying several smaller dories, from which the fishing was actually conducted, dominated the halibut industry.
They are related to the dories, and have similar deeply compressed bodies.
Many contemporary marine architects and backyard amateurs have been experimenting with the dory type and refining the type to some extent.
It is a type of dory designed to be launched off the beach.
As well as resembling each other, dories are also similar in habit: most are deep-sea and demersal.
The mirror dory has a high first dorsal fin containing 9 spiny rays, and about 27 soft rays in the second.
Dory swims about trying to understand the whale's vocalizations.
