{"id":395,"date":"2015-10-07T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/?p=395"},"modified":"2021-03-19T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T07:12:20","slug":"fishing-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/fishing-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/522684551&#8243;][vc_column_text]The sea produces millions of tons of food each year, and employs millions of people worldwide. Fishing vessels have a variety of designs, depending on the type of fish that they will catch and the length of time they will be at sea. These vessels range from large, well-equipped stern trawlers (some are 120 metres long) to small wooden or fibre-glass vessels only a few metres long with no facilities aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Off the South African coast, large stern trawlers are at sea for days at a time &#8211; some for several weeks &#8211; returning to harbour when their freezer capacity is full. Others go out for a much shorter period to catch snoek, yellowtail and other line fish. Frozen or fresh crayfish (caught in net-traps), hake (a deepsea fish caught by trawling), squid (known as <em>chokka,<\/em> and served as <em>calamari<\/em>) and tuna (a line fish) have large export markets.<\/p>\n<p>[new_royalslider id=&#8221;3&#8243;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/522684551&#8243;][vc_column_text]The sea produces millions of tons of food each year, and employs millions of people worldwide. Fishing vessels have a variety of designs, depending on the type of fish that they will catch and the length of time they will be at sea. These vessels range from large, well-equipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-1-5-10-fishing-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}