Trawlers

Trawlers and purse-seiners dominate the offshore fisheries.

Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas) 2009

Trawlers drag nets along the ocean bottom to catch bottom dwelling (demersal) fish such as cod and shellfish such as shrimp.

AP Environmental Science Chapter 12- Biological 2008

Trawlers, tankers, pleasure cruisers and yachts spangled the expanse of shimmering blue, rather like a Tudor map showing the arrangement of the Armada.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Trawlers in particular produce by-catch, often consisting of large quantities of non-target species, with an estimated 7.3 million tonnes/year discarded globally [35].

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 4 2008

Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and longline fishers (which can deploy thousands of baited hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles (as well as other species of "bycatch," including sharks and even seabirds).

A Struggle for the Sea Turtles 2007

Trawlers sat two or three abreast against the dock, and fishermen bustled about, repairing nets, loading provisions, and washing down guts-strewn decks.

Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

Trawlers sat two or three abreast against the dock, and fishermen bustled about, repairing nets, loading provisions, and washing down guts-strewn decks.

Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

Trawlers sat two or three abreast against the dock, and fishermen bustled about, repairing nets, loading provisions, and washing down guts-strewn decks.

Unnatural Selection Tim Lebbon 2006

Trawlers would cross his lines and wreck his pots, storms would set the floats ashore, lines would part, pots would break up, and his catch would not wait for fair weather to be gathered.

Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

But the address, if it ever existed, never was sent, which made me sad, there was so much I wanted to write her: that I'd _sold_ two stories, had read where the Trawlers were countersuing for divorce, was moving out of the brownstone because it was haunted.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958