单词 | purse seine |
释义 | purse seinen. A seine net which may be pursed or drawn into the shape of a bag, used for catching shoal fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net seinec950 seine-net1603 sweep-net1605 shackle-head1762 sweeping-net1809 hang-net1812 stop-seine1825 purse seine1838 ring net1851 scringe1851 trawl-net1855 sweep-seine1856 ground-seine1874 purse seine net1879 shore seine1884 trek-net1913 1838 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 18 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) For Sale, One large new Fishing Boat;..also, a large Purse Seine, entirely new, and ready for immediate use. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 515 Purse-seines are used to the best advantage in capturing [mackerel]. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 196 Model of mackerel purse-seine. 1907 Daily News 9 Sept. 7 The United States Government waives the use of purse seines by American fishermen during the term governed by the agreement. 1967 Trans. Amer. Fisheries Soc. 96 127/1 Purse seines capture only about half the number of tuna schools upon which they are set. 1975 New 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. 2003 Smithsonian Jan. 60/2 Though bluefin are caught with hook and line, in commercial operations they are typically captured with a purse seine. Compounds General attributive, as purse seine boat, purse seine fishing, purse seine net, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net seinec950 seine-net1603 sweep-net1605 shackle-head1762 sweeping-net1809 hang-net1812 stop-seine1825 purse seine1838 ring net1851 scringe1851 trawl-net1855 sweep-seine1856 ground-seine1874 purse seine net1879 shore seine1884 trek-net1913 1879 N.Y. Times 12 Mar. 4/7 (headline) Purse-seine fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence denounced in the Dominion House of Commons. 1882 Forest & Stream 3 Aug. 11/2 You are wide from the right in your position in regard to the purse seine fishery. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 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. 1884 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 27. 697 Purse-seine boat... This model represents the class of boats exclusively used in the mackerel purse-seine fisheries of New England. 1894 Forest & Stream 10 Feb. 121/3 Among the most active opponents of the pound and purse seine fishermen. 1957 Geogr. Rev. 47 74 Purse-seine fishing from small boats accounts for the rest of the surface catch. 1960 R. 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. 1994 Independent on Sunday 7 Aug. 12/7 Some species..are too dispersed for fishing vessels using purse seine nets to encircle them in the traditional way. 2006 Canberra Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 June a11 The eastern Pacific tuna fishery kills 1469 dolphins..each year as bycatch during purse seine fishing operations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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