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creel

[kreel] / kril /




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Police are continuing to search for the sole occupant of a creel boat after it washed ashore in Aberdeenshire.

From BBC Dec. 21, 2025

Family friend and local skipper James Robertson suggested she should try her hand at creel fishing on his boat off Elgol.

From BBC May 12, 2025

Many creel fishermen and scallop divers support restrictions on larger scale commercial fishing in MPAs.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2024

Mark Elder, 26, from Thurso, died when his leg became caught in a rope on the creel boat he was working on and he was pulled overboard.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2023

One Saturday morning, Mother looked up from her sewing as I was running out the front door, one of Granddaddy’s butterfly nets and his old fishing creel slung over my shoulder.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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