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Trawling

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Trawling meaning

A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines. | A laborious search.

Example sentences (20)

A night out with a muscly Eastern European guy was a better prospect than trawling through Netflix yet again for something to watch.

A sitting of the Trawling (Scotland) Committee was held in Wick, with evidence coming from fishermen based at Cromarty, Helmsdale, Wick, Ackergill, Keiss and Thurso.

Illegal fishing practices such as spearfishing with a scuba tank and bottom trawling are strongly enforced elsewhere, he said.

In a renewed appeal, released in September, Detective Chief Inspector Nigel Collins had said: "We’ve been working tirelessly to locate Stefan - using all investigative opportunities and data enquires, speaking with witnesses and trawling CCTV.

Intrigued, Mills began trawling through the annals of the British Library in order to uncover the story of blindness.

It’s been decimated by deep sea trawling, but has been making a remarkable comeback – thanks in no small part to their determination.

O’Flynn said that urgently banning bottom trawling on seamounts and in the Hauraki Gulf marine park needed to be bottom lines for any coalition agreement that the Greens entered into.

Trawling through darkweb markets and listings sites, there are pages of hackers offering their services for hire, as well as the 'fruits' of cybercrime - stolen cards, stolen accounts, stolen PayPal logins.

With my basket in hand, I began trawling the aisles to put this theory to the test.

A 2018 study suggested that more than half of high-seas fishing, including much deep-sea bottom trawling, wouldn’t be economical without those subsidies.

All of this has evident since the practice began in the 14th century — but what has been less well-known is the other impacts trawling, especially climate change.

Atmospheric carbon emissions from benthic trawling depend on water depth and ocean circulation.

Bottom trawling also plays a big role as it rips the seagrass and impairs its further growth.

Damaging activities such as bottom trawling and large development must not take place in protected areas.

He said the commission will today be trawling through Black Friday offers to make sure they are genuine.

In terms of visuals, the game is not exactly high-tech, but that doesn’t mean you’re just left trawling through pages of endless text.

The organisation says research in Lyme Bay in England has shown that where reef features alone were protected from bottom trawling, the abundance of marine life increased by a small amount: 15%.

These bots scout destinations, plan itineraries, search for accommodations and flights, map out road trips and do more — grabbing a lot of information at once and saving you all that time-consuming web trawling.

The Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen observe that if bottom trawling continues unabated, there will be no fish in Sri Lankan waters.

Two ways in which it has been suggested that bottom trawling could be impacting on cod populations is through damage to their nursery grounds and by cod moralities in their bycatch.