The 57.66-metre Kapitan is the latest in a series of vivier crabbers delivered to Russian Far East fishing company Antey to fish in the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk.
With a maximum payload of 120 tonnes of crab in its nine tanks on two levels, Kapitan is outfitted with automated systems to monitor catch quality and conditions in the stainless steel tanks. Catches are sorted as they are brought on board, with female and juvenile crab returned to the sea and male animals retained.
Kapitan has been built at the Nakhodka Ship Repair Plant under the Russian state investment quotas initiative.
The design incorporates a straight bow and a length-to-breadth ratio optimised for the best possible seakeeping. Kapitan has accommodation for a crew of up to 24 and can spend up to 40 days at sea.
‘This is the most modern crab fishing vessel in the world, nothing compares to it. It has everything needed for highly efficient fishing, and the key element is a vivier system capable of holding 120 tonnes of live crab of three species at different storage temperatures,’ said Antey Group’s Alexander Gabriel.
