purse-seine

A single modern purse-seine fishing vessel, like those used in the Mediterranean to annihilate their bluefin tuna population, can capture several thousand adult bluefin in one encirclement of its net.

Matt Rigney: The BP Oil Spill: Spilt Milk Matt Rigney 2010

Fishing net entanglement—in trawl nets, gill nets, and purse-seine nets—is a long-standing problem that involves both commercial fishing vessels and small-scale, local fishing boats.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

Over-harvesting of fish has only increased over the years, as ships have become bigger and more "efficient" methods of harvesting fish (e.g. the purse-seine net,) have been developed.

AP Environmental Science Chapter 19- First-Order Effects 2008

Large schools of surface dwelling (pelagic) fish, such as tuna, are caught by purse-seine fishing in which a net surrounds them and then closes like a drawstring purse.

AP Environmental Science Chapter 12- Biological 2008

Improvements in fishing equipment (more powerful engines, hydroacoustic equipment, and the purse-seine net in the mid 1960s) have changed the nature of the fisheries.

North Sea large marine ecosystem 2008

There are various other appliances used for fish capture in different parts of the world, such as the purse-seine net, the trammel net, the otter-trawl net,

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

There are various other appliances used for fish capture in different parts of the world, such as the purse-seine net, the trammel net, the otter-trawl net, &c.; and, as I have already pointed out, the most scathing satire on our fisheries is to find all these necessary means for catching fish regarded as curiosities.

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

While the coho and the humpback, which came about the same time, and the dog salmon, which comes last of all -- but each to function in the same manner and sequence -- laid in the salt-water bays, resting, it would seem, before the last and most terrible struggle of their brief existence, the gill-net fishermen and the cannery purse-seine boats took toll of them.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

When September days brought the cohoes in full force along with cooler nights and a great burst of rain that drowned the forest fires and cleared away the enshrouding smoke, leaving only the pleasant haze of autumn, the Folly Bay purse-seine boats went out to work.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Well, Gower has the Folly Bay license, and a couple of purse-seine licenses, and that just about gives him the say-so on all the waters around Squitty, besides a couple of good bays on the

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926