Thread: Southern Ocean fishing Pics

Originally Posted by KarlB

Found out a little more ... The boat is a crab vessel and the photos were taken on the Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada.

And more for the photo buffs: Mike Wood is the photographer and he used a 300 mm lens.

Cheers
KarlB

I wont doubt it, but the person who sent them to me said it was trawling in the southern ocean, but whereever they are its not a good place to be..

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

I wont doubt it, but the person who sent them to me said it was trawling in the southern ocean, but whereever they are its not a good place to be..

Cheers Ean

That wouldn't be the first time the location of photos has been changed as it gets emailed around... like chinese whispers...

Anyway - surely scottish boats that small wouldn't come to the southern ocean to fish???


Btw - this is very cool:

Harvester and Ocean Harvest are the first new pair seiners to feature a Scantrol radio link. This enables the skipper of either vessel to take control of both boats when pair-seining, including distance apart, course, engine and pitch control, in addition to adjusting warp length through a Scantrol Ispool autotrawl/seine system. Considering that the auto spooling has to change three times to take account of the different diameters of wire and rope spooled on the middle drum when pair seining, this is an impressive development.

New Peterhead pair seiners


EDIT - btw - interesting to read what happened to the previous f/v harvester in 2005:
http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources...r_Strilmoy.pdf

Originally Posted by isuzurover

That wouldn't be the first time the location of photos has been changed as it gets emailed around... like chinese whispers...

A bit like the pics of the Pasha Bulka prior to it running aground

Pics from pasha bulker prior to running aground


Martyn

Last November I spent 4 weeks on my mate's 40 ft cat. 14 days of that were spent going between Bunbury WA and Strahne in Tas. We got some bad weather down around Lat 43 on the way across but nothing like that...thank God


edit Ha! I see it wasn't the Southern ocean anyway

The reason I believed it was or has been fishing in the Southern ocean is because the guy who sent them to me was fishing down there....


Anyway,they are some awesome pics no matter where they are taken.



Cheers Ean.

Crab boat eh dont see it on deadlyest catch I wonder if they can actually pull pots in, in that kind of sea

Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

Crab boat eh dont see it on deadlyest catch I wonder if they can actually pull pots in, in that kind of sea

I hate to get into the technical details but the lights showing on his mast indicate a trawler..(Green above white) and I am about 80% sure I can make out a net drum on the deck in the pic where its nose diving..
It is definately a scottish regestration and to me it doesn't have the clear deck that the crabbers need to have to stow and empty pots..

I have been wrong many times before tho..


Cheers Ean

I am pretty sure you are correct Ean. And like you were "led astray" about the Southern Ocean, I believe I was "led astray" about Newfoundland, Canada; and the photographer. The boat and its sister ship seem to operate out of Peterhead, a port just north of Aberdeen, Scotland. Both boats are certainly trawlers. They could conceivably have been fishing of Newfoundland but I think not.

You will find some futher photos here: Next time you are having fish for dinner, think about these guys... (down the page a little).

Cheers
KarlB