trawl net

NOUN
  1. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
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How To Use trawl net In A Sentence

  • Much of that is the result of overfishing but the destruction of seabed habitats by trawl nets is also to blame. Times, Sunday Times
  • Briefly, animals were collected with a mid-water trawl net fitted with a light-tight, thermally insulated cod-end, brought to the surface in the closed cod-end, and sorted out under dim red light.
  • The death of most of these turtles is due to drowning in trawl nets (and not by boat or propeller hits).
  • Dropping to deck level at 26m on the port side, the railing is intact and draped with several layers of trawl net.
  • Much of that is the result of overfishing but the destruction of seabed habitats by trawl nets is also to blame. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trawl net is like a long bag, and dragged underwater behind the trawler for about four hours.
  • Pairs of vessels patrol the fishery with large trawl nets slung between them that catch everything in their path.
  • The torches illuminated the irregular shape of a trawl net.
  • Any trawl net including trawl, pair trawl or shrimp trawl net.
  • The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it.
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