dredger
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Kinmen residents in recent years have reported seeing an increase in sand dredger vessels from China, which take sand from the ocean floor, as well as fishing ships, close to its coast.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Ms Zain told the paper she had alerted both the Malaysian authorities and the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur about the activities of the dredger.
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
Samuel Denapo: These dredging activities, this dredger, it created a lot of problems.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
The 75 families who lived on Tatuoca island began to question the benefits of the port complex expansion in 2009 when a dredger began scooping up chunks of the seabed to accommodate big ships.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
“I wondered, Dad, if you would hook up the oyster dredger to the Miss Amanda and help me haul something out of the river?”
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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