While economists appreciate the increased efficiency of the bigger boats -- less labor, fuel and capital expended per fish -- others worry about the lost jobs and the impact on fishing towns.
A company left over from his corporate raider days, Genmar Holdings, is the nation's second-largest leisure boat manufacturer, a labor-intensive segment that has been slow to invest in new technology.
"That gives them the M.S.C. logo and puts them on the same footing in the market as us," he said, even though the Russian fishery was in worse shape, and Russian boats faced vastly lower labor and regulatory costs.
While still working out the precise mechanics of the deception — whether to drop the body from a plane or over the side of a boat, for example — they labored, in the manner of novelists, to create a mythic and somewhat flawed hero they called Maj.
Crew from the Italian naval vessel Bettica found the woman in labor on a boat overnight -- one of 34 vessels intercepted over the weekend.
"So when Himself starts with the visions and the holy labors and the boat full of critters, what am I supposed to do?" she asks.
The majority of these water boats are powered by human labor, sail power, and diesel and gasoline driven engines.
The Rohingya have been left in a situation desperate enough that their kids knowingly set out to sea in incredibly insufficient boats prone to sink in the open water or they volunteer to be smuggled by human traffickers into Thailand to work years of unpaid slave labor on fishing boats to repay their smugglers.
In the drolly titled 2012 painting Building the Boat While Sailing, a crowd labors to assemble a raft that is already afloat; one person hammers a nail with his fist, two more try to raise the sail, several others just loll about while, on opposite sides of the canvas, two figures spurt water into the air like Italian fountains.
The only major business he retains from his days as a corporate raider -- Genmar Holdings, the nation's second-largest leisure boat manufacturer -- is in a labor-intensive segment of the economy that has been among the slowest to invest in new technology.
