Sentence examples for bottom trawler from inspiring English sources

In 1993, he pulled his ship alongside a Cuban bottom trawler on the Grand Banks and attacked it with butyric acid.

A single pass by a bottom trawler can leave a scar on the seabed or side of a seamount of up to one kilometer square.

The first specimens of the viper dogfish were two immature males caught off southern Japan by the bottom trawler Seiryo-Maru in 1986.

During the EU-RESHIO project a commercial bottom trawler towing an Italian-type fishing net of 40 mm (stretched) was used.

Fish traps are not allowed on most state reefs, and bottom trawlers steer clear of reefs because they tear up their gear.

The closing in the 1990s of 8,500 square miles of fishing territory to the bottom trawlers and dredgers, which can scoop up large quantities and damage groundfish habitat, was part of that strategy.

Now, though, Sri Lankan fishermen are returning to the sea and have complained of poaching and overfishing by Indians — especially the extensive Indian use of bottom trawlers and monofilament nylon nets, each banned in Sri Lanka.

Harmless to humans, the tiger catshark is caught incidentally by bottom trawlers, recreational anglers, and rarely squid fishers.

This is a wild and bountiful area largely untouched by bottom trawlers, oil spills, massive dead zones, and other evidence of human abuse.

Not targeted by commercial fisheries because of its small size, it is taken incidentally and discarded by bottom trawlers operating between Mossel Bay and East London, and by fishing boats in False Bay.

For example, the agreement with Senegal allows 38 European boats to operate in Senegalese waters; two of these are bottom trawlers catching Black Hake, a species that is already overexploited.