creel

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Police are continuing to search for the sole occupant of a creel boat after it washed ashore in Aberdeenshire.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

A search is ongoing after an unoccupied creel boat washed ashore in Aberdeenshire.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

Entanglements can involve creel fishing gear or ghost gear - rope and nets that have been lost or abandoned by fishing boats.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

The creel fishermen had been working further south when they received a report of the entangled whale.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

I remember the smell of crushed ferns in the creel and the delicate sweet odor of fresh damp rainbow trout lying so prettily on the green bed.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck