Alter Aeon Online Help

Keywords are:  'ship hardpoint trawl dredge net'

ship trawl  - deploy a ship's fishing net or crab pots
ship dredge - deploy a ship's salvage dredge

Ships with hardpoints can have equipment mounted to them, such as fishing
nets and salvage dredges. These allow your vessel to gather resources from
the open open ocean. Areas will become depleted of resources as they are
harvested, so make sure to move around.

Ships with hardpoints tend to have a slower speed and less cargo capacity
than similarly-priced vessels in their class.

Ships never have more than one hardpoint, no matter how large.