Usage of "trawl net" | TermGallery

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Type of fishing net; construction of nets dragged behind a ship through a sea allowing large-scale capturing of fish.

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The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl. 
 A Yacht Voyage Round England 

The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use. 
 Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine 

A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects. 
 The Irish Times 

By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage. 
 The Guardian 

I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer. 
 Cleaving 

Acton grew afraid that WhatsApp would turn into a mass surveillance dragnet. 
 Wired 

A wider dragnet is required, with more testing and rigorous contact tracing. 
 The economist 

So the problem with us is how to get out the dragnet. 
 Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra... 

The State Police have spread a dragnet, but it doesn't look hopeful. 
 Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung 

Some of those caught in the dragnet are left scratching their heads. 
 Reuters 

Usage of trawl net in English

For some reason they occasionally get caught on a trawl net. 
 Radio NZ 

Large groups of fish found the escape route in the trawl net faster than small groups, suggesting they learnt from each other, he said. 
 Radio NZ 

Ms Barry said there had been no verified deaths of Maui's dolphins in set nets or trawl nets since 2002. 
 Radio NZ 

The WWF commissioned a survey of five hundred people and found 83 percent support a ban on set and trawl nets. 
 Radio NZ 

The plan does not set a target, called for by conservation groups, to reduce the number of sea lions killed in trawling nets. 
 Radio NZ 

"You won't want to talk about the two bodies we fished out of the trawl nets, then." 
 Broken angels 

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