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

This seine was simply a long piece of the wire-netting which we had brought with us to serve as land-crab-proof fencing round the camp.

From The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

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

When parts of the river dry out, officials use hand nets and seines to pull fish from warm puddles and relocate them to still-flowing sections of the river.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

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

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

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

I don’t believe there’s going to be much more fish going to be seined this fall––and wouldn’t she make a passage of it in this easterly?

From The Seiners by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

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