Sentence examples for seiners from inspiring English sources

Packed with ice, they try to catch a few tonnes of the more valuable sort of tuna, known as bigeye and yellowfin, while the bigger purse seiners like the Playa de Bakio, most of which are European, sweep up hundreds of tonnes of less valuable skipjack tuna outside Somalia's waters.

European purse seiners are generally larger than their North American counterparts, being typically 30 metres in length.

Several of the largest resources of pelagic fish harvested by purse seiners suffered collapses generally blamed on overfishing.

Tuna purse seiners are large vessels mainly designed for long-range fishing, although smaller types operate in the Mediterranean.

These operations employ dugout and outrigger canoes, dhows, and a variety of other small craft, as well as mechanized trawlers and purse seiners.

By the late 1960s, large fleets of 25-metre purse seiners were supplying factory mother ships capable of handling up to 3,000 tons per day.

A short fishing season of only a month, and two weeks of bad weather at the start of the season, have put the fishermen in a bad mood and under huge pressure.At this time of year all boats are purse-seiners, which dangle a wall of net in the water.

The hillsides are beautiful because the farmers still clear those high meadows for hay; the forests are still there because people depend on them for their jobs; the boats that seem so picturesque when seen from a beach in Maine aren't yachts, but the working boats of lobstermen, draggers, scallopers, gill-netters, stop-seiners, sea urchin hunters and shrimpers.

The fishermen had been held by Somali pirates for a week and freed after a ransom of $1.2m so it was rumoured was paid, in contravention of Spanish law.The boat, a big industrial vessel known as a purse seiner, was easy prey.

Lavater's most important books are Aussichten in die Ewigkeit (1768 78), Geheimes Tagebuch von einem Beobachter seiner selbst (1772 73; Secret Journal of a Self Observer, 1795), Pontius Pilatus (1782 85), and Nathanael (1786).

Among his best known works are Die Leibesübungen (1863; "On Physical Exercise"); Die Arbeiterfrage (1865; "The Worker Question"); Die Grundlagen der mathematischen Psychologie (1865; "The Foundation of Mathematical Psychology"); Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart (1866; History of Materialism); J.