Exploring Fishing Boats: Classification Methods, Features, and Development Status

Fishing boats are vessels used for fishing and harvesting aquatic animals and plants. It also includes some auxiliary vessels for modern fishing production, such as vessels that process marine products, transportation, breeding, resource survey, fisheries instruction and training, and fishery administration tasks. To ensure the quality of the catch, preservation is one of the essential functions of fishing vessels. The preservation methods on board are generally ice storage, cold seawater preservation, salt storage, micro-freezing, freezing, et. One of them, just as the primary material, is called a steel fishing vessel.

Here is the content list:

• Classification methods

• Features

• Development Status

Fishing Boats Classification methods

There are different classification methods for fishing boats. According to the operating waters, they are divided into marine fishing boats and freshwater fishing boats, and marine fishing boats are divided into coastal, offshore, and ocean-going fishing boats. According to the hull material, they are divided into wooden, glass, steel, aluminum alloy, wire mesh cement fishing boats, and various composite structure fishing boats. The tasks undertaken by fishing vessels are divided into two categories: fishing vessels and fishing auxiliary vessels.

Fishing Boats Features

Most steel fishing vessels are small; however, to adapt to continuous navigation and operation in wind and waves, they require good stability, wave resistance, and seaworthiness, and their structure needs to be especially strong. The load capacity varies significantly during operation. Marine equipment requires reliable structure performance, strong durability, and easy maintenance. The main engine power is enormous, and the relative speed is high. In addition to the configuration of general marine equipment, it must also be equipped with fishing equipment, preservation, and processing equipment, fishing assistance navigation equipment, etc. These are the unique features of fishing boats compared with other vessels. Among them, steel fishing boats are widely loved by fishermen due to their more robust structure.

Development Status

Currently, the number of units engaged in the design and construction of ocean-going fishing vessels in China is limited, the number of independently designed and built ocean-going fishing boats is small, the technical reserve is insufficient, and the overall construction level is backward. The speed of China's ocean-going fishing vessels is slow, energy consumption is high, and fuel cost accounts for 40%-50%, which is about 15% higher than that of ocean-going fishing vessels of the same power in advanced countries. Developed countries to rationalize the use of offshore fishery resources, have established a scientific fisheries management system, attach great importance to the selective research of fishing gear, and every year send fishery survey ships in the world's waters to investigate new fishing grounds and new resources, to provide new operating fishing grounds for their marine fishing fleets. Japan, the United Kingdom, and other countries with the developed maritime fishing industry, to innovate the existing fishing gear and fishing methods, a large number of basic research on various fishing gear and fishing methods so that its structure is increasingly reasonable and improve the net yield. The United States and Japan have the world's most advanced satellite navigation and fish detection systems. They can detect and track fish from the sky, under the sea, and in coastal areas, and they can know the movement of the fish at any time to protect the fishing success rate of fishing vessels.

The above is a brief introduction to fishing boats. I hope it can help you to understand fishing boats.