longline

[lawng-lahyn, long-]

1. a heavy and very long fishing line with a large number of baited hooks, used in deep-sea commercial fishing.

Example Sentences

“You’ll learn how much butter or whipped cream goes into a ‘Dolly Dollop,’ what condiment is almost always on the table at Parton family meals, and what special dish Rachel makes at Dolly’s request every year for her birthday,” the book’s longline reads, per Variety.

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Longline fishing gets its name from a long, horizontal fishing line, up to a mile long, from which hang baited hooks.

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He went back to engineering on vessels; he became a CEO; he was the first head of the Freezer Longline Coalition that promotes “intelligent and orderly harvest of Pacific cod”; he became an AA advocate.

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Balearic shearwaters are long-lived but Critically Endangered mainly because of declines driven by fisheries by-catch, as they can get caught on baited longline hooks and gill nets.

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By 2018, the entire population of orcas in these waters had taught one another to feast on longline buffets, with whole groups that previously foraged on seals and penguins developing a taste for human-caught toothfish.

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