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Schilling rudder. A Schilling rudder is a specific type of profiled rudder used on certain boats and ships. [1] The rudder is typically described as 'shaped like a fishtail'. [1] A stainless steel Schilling rudder, as fitted to a small steam-powered launch.
Pollock or pollack (pronounced / ˈ p ɒ l ə k /) is the common name used for either of the two species of North Atlantic marine fish in the genus Pollachius.
The Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) is a marine fish species of the cod genus Gadus and family Gadidae. It is a semi-pelagic schooling fish widely distributed in the North Pacific, with largest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea.
A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers, and their use for fishing has grown dramatically.
A folding table is a type of folding furniture, a table with legs that fold up against the table top. This is intended to make storage more convenient and to make the table more portable. Many folding tables are made of lightweight materials to further increase portability.
Whitefish or white fish is a fisheries term for several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua ), whiting ( Merluccius bilinearis ), haddock ( Melanogrammus aeglefinus ), hake ( Urophycis ), and pollock ( Pollachius ), among others.
The Mackinaw boat is a loose, non-standardized term for a light, open sailboat or rowboat used in the interior of North America during the fur trading era. Within this term two different Mackinaw boats evolved: one for use on the upper Great Lakes , and the other for use on the upper Missouri River and its principal tributaries.
In addition to any year-round fish sandwich offerings, they roll out all kinds of limited time fish specials. But like all fast food, some choices are worth eating and some are better to skip.
Angling in the 1st century CE. Villa of the Nile Mosaic, Lepcis Magna, Tripoli National Museum. Angling (from Old English angol, meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth.
Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is cheap and effective in suitable climates; the work can be done by the ...