seine
Example Sentences
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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
Perhaps I might rig up a net somehow," Elmer mused; "I've got a piece of mosquito netting in my bag that I use for a minnow seine, and that ought to make several head-nets.
From The Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts: Under Canvas or, The Hunt for the Cartaret Ghost by Douglas, Alan
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