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
In mid-September, three men were sent to buy a trawler called the Castlemore in the fishing port of Castletownbere, in the south-west of Ireland.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
It wasn't an oil derrick but an enormous Japanese fishing trawler with two tall cranes for hauling up their vast nets.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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