collector n Also: a boat used to transport live cod from a 'cod trap' to a 'cod farm'; attrib collector boat: see COLLECTING BOAT.
   1987 POOLE 93 The big boss had taken over Snug Harbour and I was the second hand and did not go on the collector but stayed on the room all summer. 1988 Evening Telegram 24 Oct, p. 6 Another addition to the [cod-farming] company this year was an aluminum collector boat that was used to take the fish from the codtrap. There is a trap door in the boat's holding tank which allows the fish to be transferred directly to the pens without injury. 1990 ibid 14 Jan, p. 19 What happens when the U.S. market takes a dip and the collectors don't want to go [to Labrador]; or when there is black berry in the fish?

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