Factory Ship (Noun)
Meaning
A whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The Japanese whaling fleet included a large factory ship that could process hundreds of whales per season.
- Environmental groups have long protested the use of factory ships in commercial whaling operations.
- The factory ship served as both a base for the whaling fleet and a processing facility for the caught whales.
- Soviet whalers operated a number of factory ships in the southern hemisphere during the cold war era.
- The International Whaling Commission increased regulations on the use of factory ships in the 1970s and 1980s due to concerns about overhunting.