Ships around the area

Good morning, and have a wonderful day.

Today, I will share a few shots of some of the commercial fishing fleet boats I see often on my early morning walks

I was thinking after I shared a photo recently of the Crystal Ice facility here in New Bedford, and I was amazed at how much Ice they produce daily. I think it was like 500 tons.

and looking into it some more and in chatting with a local history buff here in New Bedford, this interesting fact came to mind

On average, each fishing boat will use somewhere between 80 and 100 thousand pounds of ice on a 10-day trip.
Then each fishing boat makes approximately 20 trips a year and sometimes more so if you took 80,000 lb of ice times 20 trips a year that comes to 1,600,000 pounds of ice on a boat over a year.

There are approximately 500 boats fishing working out of New Bedford, so if each of them did the same thing and I am probably on the low end here, that would mean 800 million pounds of ice being manufactured by the ice company just for the fishing industry alone.

Those numbers are just staggering to me.

So to go with those thoughts, I thought, why not share some photos of the fleet.
Starting with these ones on Pope's Island

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TO get shots of the ships docked in the early morning light or lack of it, I need a very still day.
The reason being I often do bracketed photos inthe early morning, ie three photos at different exposures to catch a good range of the lights and darks, the longest exposure at that time is often 30 seconds, so any movement of the water will rock the boats and make them a little or a lot blurry.

These are the same boats from a different angle, looking out on the pier.

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