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A fishing net pulled by that little boat at its top, I'd say.
I just wonder if that river in an urban-industrial area is the best place for fishing ...

Here is a scan of this specific panel from gr/VCB 5:

It is definitely a tugboat. And the shawody object must be, as germund said, timber logs pulled by the tugboat. I guess we talk about "Timber rafting".

Thank you Greek_User for posting a scan. In your picture the tugboat is darker than what I was looking at which makes the drawing clearer. Yes, I see now it's timber logs pulled by a tugboat. I also found I had the the story in Gladstone Giant #5 Donald Duck Adventures and can recognize the tugboat with the large size printing.

In the smaller Fantagraphics copy, though, it originally looked to me like a gag where a gigantic fish was swimming just under the water's surface and what is the tugboat just looked like the fishes tail. After having suddenly spotted Carl Barks' caricature in a crowd scene the other day in a Junior Woodchuck story, and all the great hidden gags done by Don Rosa, I think I may be looking too hard.

I agree with Andrea's comment about "What a nerve...."

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