Meanings of seiner (seiners) in English

There are currently over 500 observers based on purse seiners in the Western Pacific.

The craft that came scurrying in just before nightfall were mackerel seiners from Gloucester.

He expects to work his purse seiners overtime, and to hell with the individual fisherman.

Most of those fish were caught by purse seiners.

The Cook Islands government has sold another 100 days worth of fishing to US purse seiners.

There'll be a lot of independent purse seiners.

What it does say is that purse seiners will be fishing for tuna, and tuna like species.

The very seiners of the bay who sell dried sea-horses to the tourists are better gentlemen than you.

The reduction comes as purse seiners are starting to head out to sea again after lying idle since December.

Mr Beer says members are aware the Spanish purse seiners will be targeting skipjack tuna, which has a healthy population.

Our correspondent, Monica Miller, says the operator of one of the purse seiners had difficulty controlling his vessel when it lost power.

Majuro is a major tuna transhipment hub, with many purse seiners in Majuro to off-load catches before returning to fishing grounds nearby.

They say without the exemption locally based purse seiners would be forced to fish in areas that are far away from American Samoa.

Under the agreement the Cook Islands will receive almost $US7-million for allowing four European purse seiners to fish for skipjack tuna.

Kiribati has cut its fishing days for the US purse seiners to 300 days a year after offering thousands of days in previous years.

The Cook Islands opposition Democratic Party says in signing a deal with Spanish purse seiners the government has abandoned principle in favour of money.