Type of fishing net; construction of nets dragged behind a ship through a sea allowing large-scale capturing of fish.
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Examples for "trawl "
Examples for "trawl "
1 The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl .
2 The trawl , formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
3 A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects.
4 By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage.
5 I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer.
1 For some reason they occasionally get caught on a trawl net .
2 Large groups of fish found the escape route in the trawl net faster than small groups, suggesting they learnt from each other, he said.
3 Ms Barry said there had been no verified deaths of Maui's dolphins in set nets or trawl nets since 2002.
4 The WWF commissioned a survey of five hundred people and found 83 percent support a ban on set and trawl nets .
5 The plan does not set a target, called for by conservation groups, to reduce the number of sea lions killed in trawling nets .
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