purse seinen.
/ˈpəː(s) seɪn/, U.S. /ˈpər(s) ˌseɪn/ A seine net which may be pursed or drawn into the shape of a bag, used for catching shoal fish.
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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.
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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).
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