seine

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

Later we found that a score of them roosted behind a broken clapboard, and, by spreading a seine below and around this, we were able to capture and examine the entire colony at will.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

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

Washington anticipates using a state-sanctioned Emerging Commercial Fishery process to test the efficacy of alternative commercial gear, such as pound nets and beach seines.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 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

He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the middle Neosho station Notemigonus was seined from a pond that is flooded frequently by the river, but never was taken in the mainstream.

From Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by James Everett Deacon

Afterward, Lummi fisherman turned to seining, or gillnetting.

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

Bluefin tuna are harvested on both sides of the Atlantic, using primarily harpoon and rod-and-reel in the west and seining nets and longline fishing in the east.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2018

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