wellboat

plural wellboats

1. alternativeAlternative form of well-boat.

   Inland transport of live cod is a far cheaper method than wellboat transport. On the other hand the psychological stress on the fish is much higher and it can by no means be compared with wellboat transport in this field.

   1970, Robert M. Howland, Gertrude Kavanagh, editors, Sport Fishery Abstracts: An Abstracting Service for Fishery Research and Management, volume 15, number 1, Narragansett, R.I.: Narragansett Marine Game Fish Laboratory, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, →ISSN, →OCLC, paragraph 12110, pages 200–201

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   [T]hough the people fiſhed ever ſo often, they could never find any ſigns of lobſters being in this part of the ſea: they were therefore continually brought in great wellboats from New England, where they are plentiful; but it happened that one of theſe wellboats broke in pieces near Hellgate, about ten Engliſh miles from New York, and all the lobſters in it got off. Since that time they have ſo multiplied in this part of the ſea, that they are now caught in the greateſt abundance.

   1748 November 10, Peter Kalm [i.e., Pehr Kalm], “October the 31st [1748; Julian calendar]”, in John Reinhold Forster [i.e., Johann Reinhold Forster], transl., Travels into North America; Containing Its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of Its Plantations and Agriculture in General, […] Translated into English […], volume I, Warrington, Cheshire: Printed by William Eyres, published 1770, →OCLC, page 241

   Another good example of the development of the specialized service supplier is the wellboats industry. ASENAV (a firm located in Valdivia, Los Rios region), a manufacturer of marine vessels, undertook the production of wellboats with up to 800-ton capacity for the transport of salmon.

   2016, Michiko Iizuka, Pedro Roje, Valentina Vera, “The Development of Salmon Agriculture in Chile into an Internationally Competitive Industry: 1985–2007”, in Akio Hosono, Michiko Iizuka, Jorge Katz, editors, Chile’s Salmon Industry: Policy Challenges in Managing Public Goods, Tokyo: Springer Japan, →ISBN, section 3.2 (The Expansion of Intermediate Inputs and Services Suppliers), page 86