The invention relates to a ship for collecting kelps from a ship side. The ship comprises a main ship body, a cab close to a bow, an
engine room casing close to the
tail of the ship, a harvester transversely arranged close to the middle of the main ship body, a
towing rope installed on the harvester and used for
towing upwards and obliquely from outside to inside from the side, a
kelp tip collecting cabin and a
kelp main body collecting cabin, a first conveying belt arranged below the harvester and arranged on a main
deck to correspond to the
kelp tip collecting cabin, and a second conveying belt corresponding to the kelp main body collecting cabin, wherein the kelp tip collecting cabin and the kelp main body collecting cabin are transversely arranged between an
engine room and the harvester; the projections of the
towing direction of the towing
rope attached to the harvester, the transportation direction of a
seedling rope and the transportation direction of a transportation chain ona horizontal plane are all perpendicular to the side. In operation, the ship has the small shielding influence on a waterway and is beneficial to
navigation safety; the harvester is not arranged at the front portion of the ship body so that the front-arranged cab can be arranged, and the problem of obstructing
sight can be solved; and multiple harvesters can be arranged in parallel, so that the improvement of the harvesting efficiency is facilitated.