longliner
- noun
- Specialized
:
barco de arrastre
- Many longliners operate in deep waters, where they can catch larger species like swordfish.
- longliner vessels
- caught by longliners
Examples
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There were 167 foreign longliners licensed to fish in 1988 (127 Korean and 40 Japanese), representing 292 license months.
Academic text (1990) -
The government hopes to add over 300 non-shrimp trawlers (23-28m) and longliners under its eighth S-Year Plan (1990-1995).
Academic text (1990) -
The SFA issues licenses to longliners on a monthly basis.
Academic text (1990) -
There is no feedlot operation in New Zealand, and the tuna is predominantly caught by longliners.
Academic text (2002) -
The 1987 agreement granted fishing rights to a maximum of four Soviet purse seiners and two longliners.
Academic text (1990) -
Longliner transshipments of tuna for 1988, mostly yellowfin, bigeye, marlin, and shark, were 12,103 t, down 14 percent from 1987.
Academic text (1990) -
Taiwanese longliners were also active in transshipping through Victoria in 1987, but only 5 Taiwanese longliners used Victoria in 1988 (Table 3).
Academic text (1990) -
During 1988, all purse seiners and longliners that called at Port Victoria for either transshipment or bunkering were boarded by inspection officers of the SFA Fisheries Management Section.
Academic text (1990) -
The longliner returned to port with a full catch of tuna after a long day at sea.
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He worked as a longliner, using hooks and bait to catch a variety of fish.
Synonyms
186
1.0
A person who catches fish for a living
32
1.1
A boat used for catching fish that often has a space to keep the fish alive
6
3.2
A boat or ship used to catch fish, often with tanks to keep the fish alive
A boat used for catching or carrying fish
A boat used to catch fish that has a tank to keep the catch alive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word longliner comes from the simple parts long + line and the ending -er, where -er means 'one who'. Think of a very long fishing line with many hooks trailing behind a boat — a longliner is the boat or person who uses that long line to catch fish.