. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. •SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC Sails on First Fishing Trip The largest fishing vessel to fly the flag--the 'SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC--left its home port of New Bedford, Mass., March 28, 196 9, on its first fishing trip. The $5 million, 297-foot, 3,120-tonfreezer stern trawler will fish off Labrador "for anything that can be found in the water," a company spokesman said. He presumed the fish would be ground- fish, codfish, and pollock. The vessel cruises at knots and can cover 26,000 miles. She is carrying a crew of 54 in air-conditioned
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. •SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC Sails on First Fishing Trip The largest fishing vessel to fly the flag--the 'SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC--left its home port of New Bedford, Mass., March 28, 196 9, on its first fishing trip. The $5 million, 297-foot, 3,120-tonfreezer stern trawler will fish off Labrador "for anything that can be found in the water," a company spokesman said. He presumed the fish would be ground- fish, codfish, and pollock. The vessel cruises at knots and can cover 26,000 miles. She is carrying a crew of 54 in air-conditioned cabins: 10 fishermen, 28 processing personnel, 7 in engineroom, and 9 officers. A sister ship, the 'SEAFREEZE PACIFIC,' will fish off the Pacific Northwest from a West Coast port. The trawlers can stay at sea 2 months and process their catch. They are equipped to use nearly everything they catch. Inedible or trash fish, and waste from the cleaning proc- ess, will be converted to fish meal and fish Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries. [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. ]
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