collector n A vessel which sails from one coastal settlement or fishing station to another to take aboard the catch for shipment to a larger centre; also attrib; COLLECTING BOAT.
   1909 BROWNE 292 [A boat from Long Tickle arrived.] The boat was a decked sloop, the collector of the 'Room' at Long Tickle. 1953 Nfld Fish Develop Report 87 The [salmon] catch is now generally sold by the fishermen in the dressed form, i.e. with gut and head removed, directly to collector-boats which call at the fishermen's premises daily and bring the fish to central assembly points. M 69-5 The cod was taken from the fishermen and iced into boxes to await the arrival of the collector, which came every evening and took the cod back to the cold storage for processing. 1975 Evening Telegram 8 July, p. 2 The Government should have planned to ship the salmon out sooner last year... Mr Doyle said the division operates five or six collector boats along the northern coast for picking up fishermen's catches. 1977 BUTLER 28 A herring collector came from Buffett. 1980 Evening Telegram 20 Sep, p. 1 He cannot accept the corporation's reasons that it is unable to find boats to be used as collectors in buying fish from fishermen [on the Labrador].

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