Talk:Factory ship

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A fact from Factory ship appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 April 2008, and was viewed approximately 2,657 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the world's largest factory trawler, the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn, is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/April.

I have requested that the name of this article be changed from "Fish processing vessel" to the more usual "Factory ship". --

• Comment Google overwhelmingly supports the proposed move - there are 2,320 hits for "fish processing vessel" and 65,700 for "factory ship". 199.125.109.99 (talk) 02:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Should "overfishing" be in here as a subsection? Or should it just be a link to a different topic? -- Kschang77 (talk) 19:51, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think the section certainly belongs here. If it is not controlled carefully, heavy industrial-scale fishing by factory ships can easily result in serious overfishing. However, the section could be rewritten to keep a better focus on how factory ships relate to overfishing. --Epipelagic (talk) 22:23, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. This seems like an attempt to blacken commercial fishing generally. Moreover, the page is about factory ships, not fishing practises, so it's misplaced at best. TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 11:52, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They're not common anymore, but surely mention of whale factory ships is appropriate? TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 11:52, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The section titled "Overfishing" is lacking relevance to the article. It talks about overfishing in general, but it's content is not very relevant to factory ships. The section should be rewritten to be relevant to factory ships (e.g. it could focus on how factory ships facilitate overfishing), or it should be removed. -Ireadandcheck (talk) 18:20, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]