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trawl net

NOUN
  1. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

How To Use trawl net In A Sentence

  • The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it.
  • When I dived the Borgny, an old trawl net was draped round the stern along the seabed.
  • In May 1990, the National Academy of Sciences estimated that as many as 55,000 sea turtles annually drown in American shrimp nets not equipped with turtle excluder device that allow turtles to escape the trawl net.
  • South Africa made history in 1938 when a coelacanth was found in a trawl net in the East London harbour.
  • At the end of his dive, woe betide any luckless invertebrate in the path of his trawl net.
  • Whereas a trawl net has to be fairly solid because it's being dragged through the water behind a large vessel, so they tend to be quite distinctive.
  • The wreck is very heavily netted, with trawl nets wrapped closely around her.
  • A large trawl net has been snagged and abandoned close to the bridge.
  • The second unknown squid lost its tentacles in the trawl net.
  • Much of that is the result of overfishing but the destruction of seabed habitats by trawl nets is also to blame. Times, Sunday Times
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