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Two reasons:

Firstly, there is a pathetic old superstition that women on ships are bad luck. The superstition is false but that doesn't stop the uneducated from believing in it.

Secondly, fishing is dominantly a male industry. Although there ARE females working in the fishing industry, there are still more men than women.

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