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Originally Posted by thefishingfreak
Its not enforced and if you were to hire a professional surveyor to specifically calculate net tonnage, most boats would be way under.
very roughly* (LxBxD-:-100)x67=gross tonnage. and net tonnage is (Gross x.80) or 80% of gross.
So the coast guard "Says" most vessels over 25' will be 5 tons, but in reality not so much.
How do you think they get away with commercially fishing Canadian built boats? (like the "For2na") Canadian built boats can't be documented. They need to be state registered. They are surveyed and calculated for net tonnage (which is almost always lighter than 5 tons) and then state registered.
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Canadian boats can be documented but they can't be used for commercial fishing. But there is a loophole that some folks use to get them into the commercial fleet.
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