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  • The main issue affecting ecosystem health has been the escalation of fishing vessels and fishing gear types, from small pangas, handlines with multiple hooks and spearguns, to gill nets, trawls and longlines.

    Gulf of California large marine ecosystem 2008

  • In the late 1970s, Mexican fishermen who had previously used pangas and handlines began to use gillnets.

    Gulf of California large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Fishermen use handlines, traps, spear guns and gill and seine nets.

    Somali Coastal Current large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Granted, physical strength generally dictated that men hauled handlines and seines in the fishery, but other work assignments delegated to women — such as carrying barras of fish up cliff faces, shouldering massive loads of boughs and bresneys, transporting five to six gallons of water over long distances, digging, fertilizing, and weeding gardens — were hardly based on notions of a "weaker sex."

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • But women's reproductive role, together with the degree of physical strength required to row out into the North Atlantic and pull handlines or seines filled with cod, steered women landward and allocated fishing activity to the men in the family unit. 56 Yet even physical strength was not a clear criterion for the division of labor, for much of the landward work performed by women required a good deal of physical exertion.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • In the afternoons they went on to the breakwater with the whole family and fished with handlines in the clear water of the harbour mouth for bass and pollock, with a good deal of success.

    What Happened to the Corbetts Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1939

  • In the afternoons they went on to the breakwater with the whole family and fished with handlines in the clear water of the harbour mouth for bass and pollock, with a good deal of success.

    What Happened to the Corbetts Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1939

  • With a vast turmoil of paddle wheels, swirling of white and green waters, bellowing of speaking trumpets, throwing of handlines and scurrying of deck hands and dock hands, the _Panama_ came to rest.

    The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Engine 24 from Wilson Borough was RIT Multiple handlines were stretched and extensive overhaul operations were commenced due to the fire extending in the walls and roof area.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Engine 24 from Wilson Borough was RIT Multiple handlines were stretched and extensive overhaul operations were commenced due to the fire extending in the walls and roof area.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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