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trawling

noun as in boating

noun as in fishing

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The fishing practices, including trawling and the use of gill and seine nets, were shown to cause physical pressures such as abrasion, smothering, siltation and total habitat loss.

After trawling the national archives and cross referencing eye-witness accounts, family letters and war office reports, Ms Nash was able to identify these men as Sergeant Northey and Major Patrick Angier.

From BBC

Restrictions on scallop dredging and prawn trawling required additional legislation which ministers promised to introduce in two stages.

From BBC

In one glaring recent example, the advocacy group Oceana U.K. found evidence that the United Kingdom allows bottom trawling in many of its MPAs.

From Salon

They joined dredgers trawling for scallops along the UK coastline.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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