trawl

Just as humans have industrialized farming with large, AI-powered tractors and sprawling monocultures, we’ve also figured out how to harvest massive quantities of fish with large nets, trawls, and dredges.

Every accessible square meter of the North Sea was being hit approximately twice per year by a trawl.

Why, I offered to thrash him and his two boys only three weeks ago, for hanging around after dark where I had a trawl set.

Indeed, the pelicans enclosed the fish with their united wings in a regular line as close and compact as a trawl or drag-net.

There is some ship-building, some brewing, with oyster and trawl fishing; the fishery engages nearly seven hundred persons.

Five soundings were taken, and, on July 9, the trawl was put over in three hundred and forty-five fathoms.

We had been driving before a light westerly wind, when the trawl caught on the bottom and stopped the vessel.