Fishing Boats 



Crab boats or vessels vary from 16-foot outboard-powered 

 skiffs to 65-foot seine-type or otter-trawl vessels. The smaller boats 

 normally confine their operations to the inside waters, although any type 

 of boat can be used there. Boats in the inside fishery do not have far to 

 travel and can deliver their catches within a few hours. In recent years, 

 vessels of the larger type have been traveling as far as 600 miles to the 

 fishing grounds (fig. 2). These boats have built-in holding tanks supplied 

 with circulating sea-water in which the captured crabs can remain alive 

 indefinitely. 



Figure 2 - Crab pots loaded aboard a barge for 

 transport from Washington to South- 

 eastern Alaska waters. 



