Seiners

"seiners" -- perhaps defraying other incidental charges besides. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

This past May, a resident of San Marcos Island in Baja California Sur reported the following account, Purse seiners (net boats) netted all of the yellowtail in the Isla San Marcos area last week. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Purse seiners are boats that deploy large nets that draw closed like a purse, ensnaring tuna. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the summer I do get to go out onto the bay and watch the real seiners - whales. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Bardot had traversed the area and reported that more than 20 purse seiners were operating there. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Until you run into the cisco seiners in wisconsin. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ten purse seiners floated several miles from the Steve Irwin in one direction, five in the other. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the 1950s Russian fishers developed a gillnet fishery in offshore waters in the Norwegian Sea, and in the early 1960s purse seiners started using echo sounding equipment to locate herring. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Trawlers and purse-seiners dominate the offshore fisheries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only other boats fishing were purse seiners conducting test sets to provide the Department of Fisheries and Oceans with data. ❋ West End Bob (2008)

Instead the unsustainable number of tuna caught in the Med is caught mostly by huge corporations with fleets of purse seiners and spotter aircraft. ❋ Jax (2007)

The southern horizon fills with setnetters, drift gillnetters, and seiners heading into the dangerous waters of the North Pacific, their sodium lights blazing as the midnight sun sets far to the north. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The last time the seiners had been out, they had craned their necks and stared about the sea, they had rowed hither and yon and stuck their noses into all the old herring coves they knew of, but they had come home empty-handed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Gordon Tidemand had set much in motion since the amazing coup scored by his seiners. ❋ Unknown (2003)