A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
1 The bow pulley in each dory fairly chuckled with delight as the trawl line was pulled over it.
2 Mr. Samuel Wiley, of Gloucester, in September 1893, caught a salmon at sea off Gloucester on a trawl line fished for hake.
3 In December, 1891, a salmon weighing 28 pounds was caught on a cod trawl line set near Halfway Rock, off Salem Harbor, Mass.
4 Mr. Mayo states that these were the first salmon ever taken on trawl lines in that region.
5 Hake are found in the deep water on the W. and SW. in spring, summer, and fall; trawl lines principally are used here.
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