Because each type of fishing gear requires different machines.
Each type of fishing boat has its own specialized fishing tools; it's impossible for one type of fishing gear to catch all types of fish.
Generally speaking, a fishing boat is used for a specific type of fishing gear, and the amount of corresponding machinery and equipment varies.
For example, the most important machine on a trawler is the winch, which is also the net-hauling machine.
In addition, there are net rolling machines, as well as auxiliary equipment such as hoisting nets and machinery for unloading fish.
The Rising Sun only had one winch and one simple crane, and no other machinery.
Specialized longline fishing boats also have a lot of machinery and equipment, such as mainline reeling machines, branch line winches, line sorting machines, line releasing machines, and bait attaching machines.
The longline fishing that Feng Ye and his team used before was all done by hand, which was quite rudimentary.
Purse seine fishing boats have even more machinery and equipment.
The auxiliary machinery alone includes bottom ring lifting and unlifting frames, bottom ring unwinding machines, fish pump cranes, fishing boat winches, and light-releasing winches.
Not to mention the winch machinery and net-lifting machinery, there are so many that it makes your scalp tingle.
With more machinery and equipment, the price is naturally higher.
This is also why you can't see any seine fishing boats on the island; they simply can't afford the price.
There are also squid fishing boats, tuna fishing boats, shrimp fishing boats, etc., each requiring different machinery and equipment.
Of course, some boats also serve as fishing boats, but generally they are only used for one or two types of fishing gear.
Moreover, it will not equip itself with all the machinery and equipment that can also be used for fishing, but only with the essential ones.
Just like the large ship they ordered, which was only used as a drift net, the machinery was only equipped with one crucial winch.
There are many intricacies involved in fishing boats that target specific fishing methods, and of course, the catches are also substantial.
Moreover, they generally do not operate in coastal waters, but rather in the deep sea or even the open ocean.
That's too far off.
Currently, there are no fishing boats like this on Baishi Island; all the boats are trawlers.
Moreover, large boats are rare; most are small fishing boats, only a dozen meters or so long.
The fishing boat is small, so the fishing gear used is also small, and fewer machines are needed. At most, it can be equipped with a winch like the Rising Sun.
When used for other fishing gear, such as bottom cages, longlines, and gillnets, they are reluctant to install machines and rely on manual labor for setting and retrieving them.
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