noun
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A net or dragnet used for trawling.
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A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
verb
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To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
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To fish from a slow-moving boat.
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To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
Examples of trawl in a Sentence
A mixed demersal trawl How are Demersal Fish Caught?
After the middle of the 20th century the boats began to use trawl nets for white fish and prawns.
The beam trawl was the first type to be used.
It was caught about 24 nautical miles east of Lizard Point, SW Cornwall in a mid-water pair trawl.
They are also vulnerable to seine net fishing, and are bycatches of trawl fishing.
On the basis of that rule, no angler may gill net, trawl, or trammel net for commercial use.
A power block was used to haul in the trawl net.
They are towed along the seabed in front of the main trawl gear.
Photograph showing close-up of an otter trawl, taken around 1900 Open A steam winch was used to haul the trawls.
Many deep-sea trawlers now have active trawl doors that can be adapted remotely whilst on the seabed.
To this stopper is shackled the independent wire which in turn is shackled to the flat link in the end of the trawl warp.
Because an essential measure for the ranking will be the number of connections to your site when these engines trawl the web.
The trawl winch system is arranged for regenerative braking.
On this strong wire rope with its massive protection of bobbins and rubber the whole structure of the trawl is built up.
The police have assumed the right to vet the entire business of government in an open-ended trawl for alleged wrongdoing.
The trawl fisheries of the coast yield sole, plaice, turbot, brill, skate, &c., of which a large part is brought alive to the market.
Vessels, Beam Trawl 20 meters or over, can be rigged for either beam trawling or scallop dredging.
One involves the trials that we have been conducting in the bass trawl fleet using separator grids.
Do n't forget to trawl the net for free delivery codes.
But will trawl the archives I have in odd books and photos to see if I can find anything.
All the present members use video, but occasionally the film projector is brought out for a nostalgic trawl through the archives.
The bottom trawl fishery west of Shetland has two main components.
That 's a lot of Web sites to trawl through !
The whiting is one of the most valuable food fishes of northern Europe, and is caught throughout the year by hook and line and by the trawl.
The head-line beckets are the first to be explained, as these play a big part in the operation of hauling the trawl.
Missing my independence and getting cabin fever to boot, I started to trawl the net for a solution.
A mixed demersal trawl How are demersal trawl How are Demersal Fish Caught?
The majority of trawl vessels directly target Nephrops but they are also taken as by catch inthe demersal fishery.
Beam trawl Beam trawls are used principally in waters shallower than 50m in depth to catch flatfish over relatively even sandy seabed.
Trawl fishing began in 1882, attracting fisher folk from coastal settlements in Kincardineshire and as far south as Northumberland.
At other times, he may buy frozen horse mackerel or even white fish that has been found dead in the trawl.
Trawl eBay and remainder sites regularly and you are bound to find it, and for considerably less than you would have paid new!