Trawling ship
Trawlers are a semi large boat designed for dragging trawling or dredging nets along the seabed.
Trawlers were popularized when steam became accessible as propulsion for fishing vessels making trawling a more effective method of gathering seabed hugging fish. They range in length from 15-40 feet depending on how deep the water it will be operating is and have large wenches to crank the nets in and out of the water. Their hulls are usually made with fiberglass or steel and were powered via steam. Issues began to develop when trawlers effective depth an speed they could work at increased. Boats would be moving too fast for younger Mer to safely move away from and they would also trawl and dredge anywhere they could find what they were looking for without proper surveying of the seafloor leading to multiple damages to Mer structures and several deaths via crowding inside the trawlers nets. Mer were reasonably outraged by the irresponsibility shown by these ships and their gall to continue operating in the same manner after dragging corpses up in their nets multiple times. Tensions would continue to raise for over a year as boat workers and fishing company officials would deny claims made by the Mer and accuse them of "hogging ocean resources". It came to a point where an entire war broke out mer utilizing guerrilla style warfare to demolish nets and damage ship engines so they would not be able to continue. Fighting escalated as boat workers retaliated wielding harpoons and mer responded with their own deadly force that had formerly been reserved to machinery. The conflict eventually came to an end with trawling ships being banned and use of one is now considered piracy. Now days all legal trawling and dredging in Coasnia is preformed from on shore trawling nets mostly for use on urchin farms.
Trawlers were popularized when steam became accessible as propulsion for fishing vessels making trawling a more effective method of gathering seabed hugging fish. They range in length from 15-40 feet depending on how deep the water it will be operating is and have large wenches to crank the nets in and out of the water. Their hulls are usually made with fiberglass or steel and were powered via steam. Issues began to develop when trawlers effective depth an speed they could work at increased. Boats would be moving too fast for younger Mer to safely move away from and they would also trawl and dredge anywhere they could find what they were looking for without proper surveying of the seafloor leading to multiple damages to Mer structures and several deaths via crowding inside the trawlers nets. Mer were reasonably outraged by the irresponsibility shown by these ships and their gall to continue operating in the same manner after dragging corpses up in their nets multiple times. Tensions would continue to raise for over a year as boat workers and fishing company officials would deny claims made by the Mer and accuse them of "hogging ocean resources". It came to a point where an entire war broke out mer utilizing guerrilla style warfare to demolish nets and damage ship engines so they would not be able to continue. Fighting escalated as boat workers retaliated wielding harpoons and mer responded with their own deadly force that had formerly been reserved to machinery. The conflict eventually came to an end with trawling ships being banned and use of one is now considered piracy. Now days all legal trawling and dredging in Coasnia is preformed from on shore trawling nets mostly for use on urchin farms.
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