Trident Seafoods Old Yard, Lots of winter shipyard work underway this season. Floating Processors, Trawl Catchers, Factory Trawlers and Tenders in the heart of shipyard repairs and major paint jobs, all getting done gearing up the boats for the next season. Never a dull moment in the Pacific Northwest as fishing vessels run up and down hill between season for annual repairs, upgrades and or to bring the boat back to Seattle’s Ship Canal and Greater PNW as their home port.
Trident Seafoods Aldebaran, Aldebaran 132 ft. Trawl Catcher gets a new shiny paint job this cold winter in Seattle, the bull and horns looking sharp and strong! Trident Seafoods trawl catcher fleet is about 15 vessels ranging in size from 84′ to 165 ft. Of course, governed by federal licensing regulations, some boats operate in the Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands, while some operate in the Gulf of Alaska. The primary target species for these vessels include Alaska pollock and Pacific cod which are harvested at various times throughout the year. When they are not fishing in specific harvesting seasons, some vessels operate as summer salmon tenders taking deliveries of Alaska salmon from a fleet of independent fishermen. Some of Tridents fleet may perform charter work for fisheries research purposes and data collecting.
The Seattle Ship Canal in the Pacific Northwest is a very busy and extremely active community of work boats, commercial fishing boats and research vessels. Trident Seafoods Old Yard in Seattle is literally next to Western Towboat, the two old school commercial companies do many on the water projects and assists to one another. Its very common to see for instance Tug Wasp of Western Towboat assist an Trident Fishing Vessel up or down the Ship Canal and or over the the Pacific Fishermen Shipyard in Ballard to be hauled out and up on their massive ways.
Royal Viking and Pacific Viking are put to bed for the winter over at Trident Old Yard, getting lots of repairs and annual work done on the boats. Royal Viking is a well known Marco Shipyard Built Boat. Captain Herold may have been taken out by Cancer the jerk, but his spirit lives on every season on the Royal Viking! The Square Head Norwegian Capt. Herold was one of a kind, God broke the mold when he made Herold!
Top of a extra foggy morning in the Seattle Ship Canal, Silver Bay Seafoods, Tender Rogue flips around next to Tridents Tender and Trawler winter fleet in the Canal. Western Towboat Tugs get ready for their next tug and barge PNW, AK or worldwide barge mission.