trawls in English

noun

1

an act of fishing with a trawl net.

they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl

2

a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a vessel along the bottom or in the midwater of the sea or a lake.

Whereas a trawl net has to be fairly solid because it's being dragged through the water behind a large vessel, so they tend to be quite distinctive.

verb

1

fish with a trawl net or seine.

the boats trawled for flounder

synonyms: fish, seine, drag a net, sift, troll, hunt, search, look

noun

• trotline, spiller
• dragnet, trawl net

verb

• fish, seine, drag a net, sift, troll, hunt, search, look

Use "trawls" in a sentence

1. O. vulgaris is caught by bottom trawls on a huge scale off the northwestern coast of Africa.

2. The Bluefish fishery predominantly uses gillnets, but other gear includes hook and line, pound nets, seines, and trawls

3. Trawls or Danish seines with mesh size ≥ 120 mm with a 120 mm square mesh window (Appendix 1)

4. During the comprehensive Mediterranean International Trawl Survey program from 1995 to 1999, only two angelsharks were captured from 9,905 trawls.

5. Steam trawler and otter trawls were introduced in the 20th century, as well as automated floating fish factories to process and freeze the catch at sea.

6. He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people, who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue.

7. The cable’s inventor, man, has also proved to be the most common enemy of the cable, not only in times of war, but, more frequently, by the dragging of trawls and the use of ships’ anchors.