Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of fishing with a trawl attached to a beam and dragged on the bottom.
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Trawling, or as it is more properly termed, beam-trawling, may be described as a method of deep-sea fishing, in which a large bag net is towed along the ground so as to scoop, as it were, the fish into its receptacle.
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Trawling, or as it is more properly termed, beam-trawling, may be described as a method of deep-sea fishing, in which a large bag net is towed along the ground so as to scoop, as it were, the fish into its receptacle.
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Then, at a press conference in The Hague in 1990, I saw the effect of beam-trawling on the bed of the sea and the fish and other creatures that lived there.
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The said selectmen may, subject to such regulations as they may from time to time prescribe, grant permits in writing to engage in beam-trawling or otter-trawling in such waters, and may charge a reasonable fee therefor.
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