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This is what comes of giving a man a Fish, instead of giving him a hand-line and teaching him HOW to Catch Fish Himself …
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He also uses a lot of blackfin tuna from Tobago, in the Caribbean, that is hand-line caught.
Terms of Endangerment Clover, Charles 2008
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The draft policy also calls for the establishment of registered crew lists for the traditional line fish, squid, and hand-line hake fisheries.
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Multiple rights for the hand-line hake and tuna sectors was acceptable and as, an additional concession, these two sectors, as with the traditional linefish sector, would retain access to snoek.
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Commercial line fishing would be split into three sectors, the traditional linefish sector, the hand-line hake sector and the tuna sector with albacore (longfin) tuna as a traditional target.
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Commercial rights in the traditional linefish, hand-line hake and tuna sectors would be allocated for the first time under the Marine
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He no longer went to Point Hunter to fish with a hand-line; Stephen had also abandoned that site.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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That canceled his plans for the coming weekend, which had consisted of fishing with a hand-line from the rocks west of the landing place and taking a long walk with Stephen.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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He no longer went to Point Hunter to fish with a hand-line; Stephen had also abandoned that site.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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That canceled his plans for the coming weekend, which had consisted of fishing with a hand-line from the rocks west of the landing place and taking a long walk with Stephen.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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