REFRIGERATING FISHING VESSELS

A refrigerating fishing vessel has a pump for loading catches which can suction directly from the bottom of the net. Its refrigerating and loading installation has a channel linking two deposits with different characteristics, both located on deck. The channel has a series of ducts which can be selectively closed, with the mouths of as many loading tanks. Preferentially the tanks are in even numbers and grouped in two parallel rows to the two sides of the vessel. The tanks communicate by their bottoms with a refrigerated brine system which is regulated by valves and capable of releasing a continuous flow to any of the deck deposits and/or one or more loading tanks where it is recycled, entering by the upper part. The loading tanks have intake at their bottoms which can be closed by valves independently to introduce a continuous surplus of brine which can cause overflowing of the tanks and unloading of the fish by flotation, or introduce sea water for cleaning the tanks or for keeping live bait.