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seine

[seyn] / seɪn /


VERB
trawl
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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, the Karuk Tribe fisheries team formed a circle and pulled up their catch.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 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

We were going to seine this pool of water, when uncle came down to where we were and wanted to know what we were doing.

From A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer by Washington Bailey

Local communities believe that certain fishing practices, such as spearfishing with scuba gear and semi-industrial fishing with purse seines and night lights, are major contributors to the decline of fish stocks.

From Science Daily Nov. 16, 2024

Joining a flotilla of competing boats near Point Roberts, the Emancipator initiated a set and then began pulling in its seines.

From Seattle Times Mar. 2, 2023

Good carbon bargains tend to be seafood caught in midwater trawls and purse seines — nets that don't touch the bottom of the ocean.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2021

For three years researchers working in the Sound of Elsinore, Denmark, sampled fish with traps, seines, gillnets, push nets, fishing poles, bottom trawls, along with visual observations by snorkelers during the day and at night.

From Scientific American Feb. 3, 2015

“Oh, the river’s pretty,” he said, “but fishing’s hard work. You try hauling one of those seines up from the bottom sometime and you’ll find out.”

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

In the 1800s, when the pupfish swam throughout the valley, the Paiute peoples seined the fish for food.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2021

We seined under blue skies, taking in the squawking seabirds and miles of wild tidal beach.

From The New Yorker Dec. 26, 2016

Most of the supporting cast were amateurs seined from Philadelphia dramatic groups, or girl friends of members of the crew stuck into the film just to maintain employee relations.

From Time Magazine Archive

From manufacturers and retailers Hubbard, promising heavy plugs on the air, seined some $560,000 in merchandise.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the waters of this river, since man was, have the Indians drawn and dipped and seined their sustenance—inconnu, jack-fish, grayling, white-fish, and loche.

From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

But since Larry died, Ellie says she’s stuck mostly to purse seining and beach seining when she fishes with their adult sons, Luke and Kyle.

From Seattle Times Apr. 6, 2023

These artisanal techniques are far less harmful than trawling, purse seining or driftnets – and than the reckless sport-fishing boats speeding at 10 knots, trailing long lines.

From The Guardian Sep. 13, 2020

A bill stalled in the State Legislature would prohibit purse seining of menhaden in New York.

From New York Times Sep. 13, 2018

The way fishing has been the past couple of seasons she’s thankful she got out of seining, she said.

From Washington Times Apr. 1, 2017

The Ocean Queen was a stout, no-nonsense workboat built from thick planks of Alaska yellow cedar, rigged for long-lining and purse seining.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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