longline
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈlɔːŋlaɪn/
- Specialized
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palangre
- Fishermen often use a longline to catch large fish like tuna, as it allows many hooks to be deployed at once.
- longline fishing
- longline fishery
- longline gear
Examples
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In the early 1980s, perhaps as few as 15 vessels were fishing with longline gear in Hawaii.
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During the period of greatest expansion of the longline fishery (1987-89), troll and handline CPUE declined (Boggs3).
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Since November 1990, all longline vessels fishing around the Hawaiian Islands are required to report by set:
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There are also some direct competitive pressures accompanying the rapid growth of the longline fishery.
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Thus, there may be significant links between the longline fishery and tiger shark populations.
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The fishing grounds of the Hawaii longline fishery expanded in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Catch data from 117 free-vehicle longline sets made on SIO cruises are shown in Table 4.
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Here, we present a spatial and temporal analysis of catches of tiger sharks from the longline fishery logbooks.
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A standard longline consisted of 10-20 gangions placed at 15.2 m intervals along the mainline.
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Sandbar sharks outside the bay were the second-most abundant species taken on longlines fished in this area.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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1.1
A long thin rope or wire used to carry things
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2.0
A strong thin string used to catch fish with a hook
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9.9
A long fishing line with many baited hooks stretched across water
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9.9
A long fishing line with many short lines and hooks hung between buoys to catch fish
A long fishing line with many short lines and hooks that hangs between buoys
A long fishing line with many short lines and hooks used to catch fish
A fishing line with bait on hooks that people leave in the water overnight to catch fish
A strong thin cord used to catch fish with a fishing rod
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Longline for fishing is also just long + line, where line here means 'a long string with many hooks'. So a longline is a very long fishing line set in the sea with many baited hooks to catch fish.