beam trawl

American  

noun

1. a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.

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Example Sentences

The fish was retrieved from a beam trawl trailing through Australia's eastern abyss, where John Pogonoski from the Australian National Fish Collection immediately recognized the rarely seen predator.

From National Geographic • Jun. 7, 2017

The benefit of the otter trawl for fishers was that it could catch groundfish like cod, not just the flatfish scared up by the beam trawl.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2013

A tendency to return to the use of the small beam trawl for deep-sea work has lately shown itself.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

We had only a sailing vessel of about sixty tons, and the old heavy beam trawl, for the other trawl and steam fishing boats were then quite in their infancy.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir