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CAPTAIN, FISHING VESSEL

Specialty Definition: CAPTAIN, FISHING VESSEL

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Occupations

Commands fishing vessel crew engaged in catching fish and other marine life: Interviews, hires, and gives instructions to crew, and assigns crew to watches and quarters. Plots courses on navigation charts and computes positions, using standard navigation aids, such as compass, sextant, clock, radio fix, and navigation tables. Steers vessel and operates electronic equipment, such as radio, sonic depth finder, and radar. Directs fishing operations, using knowledge of fishing grounds and work load capacities of vessel and crew. Records daily activities in ship's log. May purchase supplies and equipment for boat, such as food, fuel, webbing, rope, and cable. May tow and maneuver fish barges at cannery wharf. May contact buyers and make arrangements for sale of catch. May buy fish for resale and be designated Buy-Boat Operator (fishing & hunt.), or haul fish from other fishing vessels to cannery and be designated Captain, Cannery Tender (fishing & hunt.). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CAPTAIN, FISHING VESSEL

Specialty definitions using "CAPTAIN, FISHING VESSEL": BOATSWAIN, OTTER TRAWLERfishing captainMATE, FISHING VESSEL. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: CAPTAIN, FISHING VESSEL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 50 54 41 49 4E 2C      46 49 53 48 49 4E 47      56 45 53 53 45 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010000 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 00101100 00100000 01000110 01001001 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010110 01000101 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#80 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#44 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#83 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#86 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0050 0054 0041 0049 004E 002C      0046 0049 0053 0048 0049 004E 0047      0056 0045 0053 0053 0045 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37355054354348142404353424348412563953533946

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