drag-nets

Fishing with explosives and trawlers with drag-nets has also caused extensive damage to this sensitive ecosystem.

Indochina mangroves 2007

He will go a long way if he does not throw himself into the river, and even so he will get as far as the drag-nets at

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

But the best catches were made with the drag-nets, which brought up at each haul carp, bream, salmon, saltwater pike, and a number of medium-sized sterlets, which wealthy gourmets have sent alive to

Robur the Conqueror 2003

A million; and promptly, too, or that little head of ours will be swaying to and fro in the drag-nets at Saint-Cloud, while we are gone to find out whether or no there is a Supreme

Father Goriot 2003

He spoke of fyke-nets and drag-nets and warp-lines, and of eel-spearing through the ice.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

Why will they lower their drag-nets into the unfathomable waters, in the vain attempt to bring up your pearls and gems, whose lustre would pale to ashes in the garish light, -- whose only sparkle is in the deep sea-soundings?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

A million; and promptly, too, or that little head of yours will be swaying to and fro in the drag-nets at Saint-Cloud, while we are gone to find out whether or no there is a Supreme Being.

Paras. 500–599 1917

Though, as we have seen, crocodiles have long ago left the Lower Nile, the river abounds in fish, and from the terraces of its banks one may constantly see fishermen throwing their hand-nets, while in the shallows and backwaters of the river, drag-nets are frequently employed.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

Why will they lower their drag-nets into the unfathomable waters, in the vain attempt to bring up your pearls and gems, whose luster would pale to ashes in the garish light, whose only sparkle is in the deep sea-soundings?

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887

A thorough survey required organization and expensive means, such as torches, boats, fishing tongs and drag-nets; and why scour it at all, if not thoroughly and over every inch?

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866