seine

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Many birds drown in purse seine nets each year.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

The fishing practices, including trawling and the use of gill and seine nets, were shown to cause physical pressures such as abrasion, smothering, siltation and total habitat loss.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

Using a seine net, they formed a circle and pulled up their catch.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

The most common method used to catch oily fish is known as "seine" fishing, one of the most environmentally friendly fishing techniques in use today:

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024

Bait dealers who seine the South Canadian River in Dewey County, Oklahoma, have taken flathead chubs in abundance in some seasons, but not at all in others.

From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.