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 main fishing activities are trawling for demersal fish, nephrops and scallops with some seasonal trawling for pelagic species.
The restrictions on fishing for hake, for example, will cause serious problems for pelagic horse mackerel trawling.
Bruce had onboard an extensive array of equipment for sounding, trawling, and dredging in deep water, and devices for measuring temperature and sampling sea water at different depths.
To prevent ' data trawling ' however, we only asked about exposures that were biologically plausible, or exposures that had been previously associated with cryptosporidiosis.
Therefore, neither fish age nor trawling depth were considered to bias the analysis.
We could get in tomorrow but are trawling today.
Intensive night trawling results in appropriation externalities for traditional fishermen, which reduce their fishing incomes.
The level of exploitation of the offshore demersal stocks may remain moderate as long as trawling remains banned from these waters.
