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purse-seine|ˈpɜːsseɪn|
A fishing-net or seine which may be pursed or drawn into the shape of a bag, used for catching shoal fish. Also attrib. purse-seine boat, purse-seine fisherman, purse-seine fishery, purse-seine fishing, purse-seine-net.
1870Amer. Naturalist IV. 515 Purse-seines are used to the best advantage in capturing [mackerel]. 1883Fish. Exh. Catal. 196 Model of mackerel purse-seine. 1883Goode Fish. Indust. U.S. 66 There is..reason to believe that our great purse-seine fisheries for menhaden and mackerel, though perhaps not causing a decrease in the numbers of the fish, have kept them farther from the shore. 1883Pall Mall G. 1 Sept. 9/1 To enable our fishermen to see the practical working of the celebrated purse seine net, as used by the United States fishermen for the capture of mackerel, herring, and other fish usually caught by the drift net. 1884Bull. U.S. Nat. Museum No. 27. 697 Purse-seine boat... This model represents the class of boats exclusively used in the mackerel purse-seine fisheries of New England. 1889Nature XLI. 180/1 The purse-seine first came into general use in 1850. 1909Purse-seine fishing [used s.v. purse-seiner]. 1935B. R. Hubbard Cradle of Storms vi. 95 Floating canneries had been allowed to invade the False Pass area, and powerful purse-seine boats had come in with them. 1960R. Kirkbride Innocent Abroad x. 74 These purse-seine boats moved like cats' eyes over the water, luring shoals of fish with the beams of their kerosene pressure lamps. 1971Stornoway Gaz. 7 Aug. 3/7 Its provisions apply to all nets, with the exception of purse-seine nets and ring nets, constructed to take fish while being towed or hauled through the sea by or from a fishing boat. 1971Country Life 9 Dec. 1642/2 It was Gardenstown men who took over the first boat built specially for purse-seine fishing. 1975New Yorker 22 Dec. 54/2 When the enormous purse seine (some three hundred fathoms long by eighty fathoms deep) is cast, the boat moves in a circle round a herring shoal, pulling the net into the shape of a pocket in a pool table. 1976Times 14 Feb. 2/3 Huge nets, purse seine nets, that can trap up to 200 tons of fish in a single cast. 1976Quoddy Tides (Eastport, Maine) 13 Aug. 2/1 Herring purse-seine fishermen in the Bay of Fundy have organized themselves with government assistance to change the purse-seine fishery from one based on fish meal to one based on food.
Hence purse-seiner, a vessel employed in purse-seine fishing; ˈpurse-seining.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1919Dialect Notes V. 58 The purse-seiners are reaping a harvest here just now, lots of fish and a good price. Island Co. Times, Coupeville [Washington]. 1941Steinbeck & Ricketts Sea of Cortez i. 7 The purse-seiners of Monterey..are dependable work-boats. 1963Times 25 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. ix/5 Present fishing methods are gill-netting, purse-seining and trolling. 1973Stornoway Gaz. 27 Jan. 1/1 Last Wednesday's total of 7,612 crans from purse-seiners and pair trawlers was a record for the port of Stornoway. 1973Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 44/4 The third and most controversial method is purse-seining—where a net is put round a school of tuna, the base is closed and the whole lot hauled on board. 1979P. Benchley Island i. 13 Commercial purse-seiners telling their wives when to expect them home. |