purse seine
121brailing — 1) transferring of fish in bulk from a net to a vessel or from a vessel to a processing facility 2) the bringing of the lead line of a purse seine to the water surface …
122choke — 1) a triangular piece at the wing end of a purse seine, used to get the float and load lines while heaving the net by a power block 2) a method of baiting herring for slow trolling 3) killing fish in a gill net, the squeaking noise made when a… …
123Christmas tree — a purse seine with fishes stuck in the mesh …
124drifting fish aggregating device — natural or artificial free drifting objects that attract pelagic fishes, such as tunas. Natural ones are logs and branches and objects of human origin such as oil drums and buoys. Artificial ones are deliberately constructed, such as bamboo rafts …
125fish magnet — a moveable electrode used to bring up a school of fish that normally is too deep for a purse seine to catch …
126fish-magnet — a moveable electrode used to bring up a school of fish that normally is too deep for a purse seine to catch …
127fishing fleet — 1) an aggregation of fishing vessels of a particular country or using a particular gear, e.g. a purse seine fleet, the West Country Newfoundland migratory fishing fleet 2) a group of women arriving en masse at a colony in search of husbands… …
128fishmagnet — a moveable electrode used to bring up a school of fish that normally is too deep for a purse seine to catch …
