Fishing fleet

[1] Fishermen operating a particular type of vessel or in a particular port often belong to a local association which disseminates information and may be used to coordinate activities, such as how best to prevent overfishing in particular areas.

The remaining undecked boats were generally less than 10 metres long, and 65 percent were not fitted with mechanical propulsion systems.

Only one percent of the world fishing fleet is larger than 100 gross tons (longer than 24 metres).

International conventions and agreements awaiting ratification which concern safety at sea are almost exclusively aimed at vessels 24 metres in length and over, and therefore do not apply to artisan vessels in developing countries.

The fishing fleet was an ironic reference to the shipping of unmarried young women from the UK to India during the middle and latter years of the Raj, for the purposes of becoming married to colonial administrators, officers and plantation supervisors., [2][3][4][5]