noun
definition
A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.
definition
A fisherman who uses a trawl net.
Examples of trawlers in a Sentence
In summer the waters are visited by a great number of foreign fishermen, inclusive of about 300 fishing-boats from French ports, as well as by fishing-boats from the Faeroes and Norway, and steam trawlers from England.
Two of the docks are for the accommodation of the fishing fleet, which, consisting principally of steam trawlers, numbers upwards of 500 vessels.
Too often they had heard the thunder of a mine, caught in the sweeps, explode under a trawlers counter.
In the early years of the 10th century the competition of foreign steam trawlers inflicted much hardship on the fishermen.
Although this does n't look over luxurious, as far as sidewinder trawlers went this was about as good as it got.
For extended stays, you will want cruisers or trawlers that make it more comfortable for longer periods of time.
This was to be the convoy escorted by two dance class trawlers, destination Gibraltar.
Ditto in Malaysia where foreign trawlers have been burnt by local fishers.
When Hewett trawlers sailed from Fleetwood, they still carried the pennant on their funnels.
Another section is devoted to the use of radio telegraphy on board deep-sea trawlers.
Large bass may take several decades to grow and so once caught by trawlers they will not be replaced.
A gill net does not destroy the sea bed unlike beam trawlers or even worse scallop dredgers.
Trawlers are extensively employed, and steamers bring the catches directly to the large fish markets at Geestemnde and Altona, whence facilities are afforded by the railways for the rapid transport of fish to Berlin and other centres.
Meanwhile the Dance class trawlers, with their heavier and somewhat archaic 4 in, guns, occupied themselves with the convoy itself.
Trawlers, the strip miners of the sea, often precipitate the collapse of fish stocks from years of over-harvesting.
From small one man vessels up to large pelagic trawlers.
Yet Belgian trawlers had been exempted from the ban.
The convoy with its twelve escorts would proceed to Dungeness where the Dover Command escorts, minesweeping trawlers, would relieve those from Portsmouth.
Many deep-sea trawlers now have active trawl doors that can be adapted remotely whilst on the seabed.
It is claimed, as a further result of the experiments, that from May to October the young fish would be practically free on the shallow part of the Bank from the risk of premature capture by trawlers, and that the increased value of the fish, consequent upon their phenomenal growth-rate, would greatly exceed the cost of transplantation.
Over one hundred fishing-smacks and trawlers usually land their catches at the south dock, where there is a flourishing fish-market.