trawler
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Jens Frederiksen, who works at a fishing business in Nuuk running a big shrimp trawler, said there is a divide in opinion between those in the capital and those in other coastal areas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
She said theories included it was captured accidentally by a trawler and then thrown overboard, or killed by a whale.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
While other experiments with that approach have proven successful, this one results in a hanging work that looks like a trawler accidentally got its haulage caught in a tree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The trawler had engine problems and lost power intermittently.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
Shoto’s vessel was a large interplanetary trawler named the Kurosawa, modeled after a ship called the Bebop in the classic anime series Cowboy Bebop.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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