0 a large ship that has equipment for keeping the fish caught by other smaller ships fresh, usually by freezing them --
1 a big fishing boat that has equipment for cleaning and freezing fish as soon as they are caught --
It is a super trawler and factory ship.
Most commercial fishing boats are small, usually less than 30 m but up to 100 m for a large purse seiner or factory ship.
My report, through the coastguards, is that it was in fact a factory ship to which the drift-netters were taking their salmon for storage or processing.
The solution may ultimately be the factory ship processing at sea the earlier catches, and landing only the later catches to market in a fresh condition.
Within 10 minutes, that person is told the location of a nearby foreign factory ship waiting three or four miles out, which is prepared to buy.
I had not thought of using an aircraft carrier as a factory ship.
Then about 10 years ago we had the foreign highly sophisticated factory ship appearing in our waters.
Already there is provision for reporting to the port inspectorate before our own vessels land their fish on the factory ship.
