0 present participle of trawl
1 to pull a large, cone-shaped net through the sea at a deep level behind a special boat in order to catch fish:
2 to search among a large number or many different places in order to find people or information you want:
The outright banning of trawling provides a corner solution.
However, a spurt in night trawling took place thereafter, which caused another technological externality.
A monitoring programme was introduced, sampling cod by otter trawling using research vessels.
We did a lot of trawling at 400 fathoms.
The great majority of the failures are due to the initial stage of trawling the dictionary for possible candidates.
Fish were caught by trammel or bottom trawling by artisanal fishing boats.
They were unequivocal in blaming this upon the spread of night trawling.
The level of exploitation of the offshore demersal stocks may remain moderate as long as trawling remains banned from these waters.
