FISHING VESSELS - Roberto Orlando Quesquén Fernández - Bog

Fishing is an activity that provides quality food to mankind, in addition to being a productive activity that generates economy and progress to many countries in the world. Although currently fishing exploitation has reached levels that have led to the depredation of large resources, collapsing several fisheries in almost all the world's oceans, however, there are still resources, in some cases with abundant biomass. In addition, according to some specialists, other resources are yet to be discovered, especially from the seabed, which are not very accessible with the available fishing infrastructure. The main platform for the extraction of these resources are boats. They exist in different materials, sizes and purposes. Due to the characteristics of the species, specific methods are oftenspecies often require specific methods for their capture. For this reason, vessels have had to be designed for each type of catch, for example, trawling, purse seine fishing, spinning, harpoon fishing, diving, etc.