🔍 Key Concepts

• Rule 26 – Fishing Vessels (International & Inland), especially the difference between trawling and fishing other than trawling • The standard all‑round light combinations for fishing at night (think color-over-color mnemonics) • How the presence or absence of side lights and/or anchor lights tells you whether the vessel is underway, making way, or anchored

💭 Think About

• Look closely at the vertical stack of colored all‑round lights. What two colors are shown together, and in what order from top to bottom? Which type of fishing does that specific color combination represent under Rule 26? • Now look at the separate red light low and off to the side. Is this more consistent with an anchor light, a side light, or something else? What does that tell you about whether the vessel is underway or anchored? • Ask yourself: If a fishing vessel is tending a small boat, or not actually fishing, would it still show this exact combination of all‑round lights?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify in Rule 26 whether green over white or red over white is used for trawling versus fishing other than trawling • Confirm whether a single all‑round white light alone would indicate a vessel at anchor, and how that differs from what you see here • Check that showing side lights means the vessel is underway and making way, not anchored or stopped, and see how that rules out some of the options