trawling
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Pollution, and disturbance from anchoring, bottom trawling and dredging and coastal development have all contributed to its decline, the trust said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
While this is by far the largest whale graveyard yet found, fossils found during trawling suggest there could be others off South Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Crozet islands, said the study.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Investors trawling for value stocks have also boosted shares of energy and materials names.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
