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.
The Irish RSW Pelagic Trawler Brendelen SO709 in Skagen harbour
Painting of A Brixham trawler by William Adolphus Knell. The painting is now in the National Maritime Museum.
Armed trawler HNoMS Honningsvåg off Iceland.
Decca Navigator (Mark 21) and Decca Track Plotter (the forerunners of modern GPS navigation and plotting equipment) on the bridge of this (rather dated) trawler.
A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.
Crab boat working the North Sea
Fishing boats lashed together in a tidal creek in Anjarle village, Maharashtra, India
Viking boat showing clinker planking.
Herring Buss taking aboard its drift net (G. Groenewegen).