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Definition of Purse seine
1. Noun. A seine designed to be set by two boats around a school of fish and then closed at the bottom by means of a line.
Definition of Purse seine
1. Noun. ''(fishing gear)'': a fishing seine having a purse cable which acts as a draw string for the bottom of the net allowing entire schools of fish to be enclosed and brought up. See [ "Purse Seine"] ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purse Seine
Literary usage of Purse seine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"This notice was to the effect that if we fished within the limits of Seven Mile
Point and Julia Ford Point, with a purse seine, it would meet with the same ..."
2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"On the second occasion, when we went to lay out our purse seine, we were abont
three-quarters of a mile from the mouth of the river, anil our net could not ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1891)
"... says :— " ' The first purse seine that was made so far as I know, was made by
John Tallman, the first, and Jonathan Brownell and Christopher Barker, ..."
4. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic (2006)
"The following will provide data for the purse seine fleet, ... UQS in the purse
seine fleet The purse seine fleet has gone through a remarkable development ..."
5. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"The most extensive changes, however, have taken place since 1870, for it is only
during the last ten years that the use of the purse-seine has been at all ..."
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