longliners

There are thousands of longliners fishing the world's oceans.

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

This does not count the longliners, which lay up to 75 miles of line with hooks set mere yards apart.

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

Until the early 1960s, the Greenland halibut fishery (Fig. 13.3) was mainly pursued by coastal longliners off the coast of northern Norway.

Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas) 2009

For other sectors, there were around 274 eligible Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands crab fishing vessels, 2500 catcher longliners (including Alaska state-water vessels) mostly involved in halibut/sablefish and Pacific cod fisheries, and some 5200 salmon fishing vessels of various types [181].

Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009

Commercial longliners like him are almost completely responsible for the near destruction of the Atlantic swordfish population.

A Whale Of A Problem 2008

Factory-scale trawlers and longliners also harvest huge numbers of fish, but they do their own processing on board, and often clean, vacuum-pack, and freeze their catch within hours.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Factory-scale trawlers and longliners also harvest huge numbers of fish, but they do their own processing on board, and often clean, vacuum-pack, and freeze their catch within hours.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

In the spring of 1897 I was asked by the Council to sail to Iceland with a view to opening work there, in response to a petition sent in to the Board by the Hearn longliners and trawlers, who were just beginning their vast fishery in those waters from Hull and Grimsby.

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

The idea is: longliners would, in exchange for private money, agree to permanently change techniques.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carl Safina 2011

And so, a new do-it-yourself effort, coordinated in part by Pew Charitable Trusts, is encouraging Gulf of Mexico longliners to voluntarily switch away from bluefin-killing longlines to a trolling technique and a tended-line method that would hook few, if any, bluefin tuna.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Carl Safina 2011