Trawl
verb
To pull a large net through the water to catch fish.
Fishermen trawl the ocean for their daily catch.
Often appears as...
- trawl for fish
- trawl the ocean
verb
To search thoroughly or deeply.
She trawled the internet for information on the subject.
Often appears as...
- trawl the internet
- trawl through documents
noun
A net system for catching fish.
A trawl was cast into the water to catch as many fish as possible.
Often appears as...
- cast a trawl
- trawl net
verb
To pull a large net through the water to catch fish.
Fishermen trawl the ocean for their daily catch.
Often appears as...
- trawl for fish
- trawl the ocean
verb
To search thoroughly or deeply.
She trawled the internet for information on the subject.
Often appears as...
- trawl the internet
- trawl through documents
noun
A net system for catching fish.
A trawl was cast into the water to catch as many fish as possible.
Often appears as...
- cast a trawl
- trawl net
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Fishing Action
The word 'trawl' is specifically associated with the act of fishing using a large net.
Local laws regulate how ships can trawl to protect marine life.
Pro Tip 2/3Wide Area
'Trawl' implies covering a broad area in a dragging motion, often in hope of a big catch.
Sure enough, when they trawled the bay, they caught a variety of fish.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Effort
The action of 'trawling' involves significant physical effort and is a labor-intensive process.
They were exhausted after trawling the sea all night.
Pro Tip 1/3Fishing Action
The word 'trawl' is specifically associated with the act of fishing using a large net.
Local laws regulate how ships can trawl to protect marine life.
Pro Tip 2/3Wide Area
'Trawl' implies covering a broad area in a dragging motion, often in hope of a big catch.
Sure enough, when they trawled the bay, they caught a variety of fish.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Effort
The action of 'trawling' involves significant physical effort and is a labor-intensive process.
They were exhausted after trawling the sea all night.
Pro Tip 1/3Fishing Action
The word 'trawl' is specifically associated with the act of fishing using a large net.
Local laws regulate how ships can trawl to protect marine life.
Pro Tip 2/3Wide Area
'Trawl' implies covering a broad area in a dragging motion, often in hope of a big catch.
Sure enough, when they trawled the bay, they caught a variety of fish.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Effort
The action of 'trawling' involves significant physical effort and is a labor-intensive process.
They were exhausted after trawling the sea all night.
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Humboldt Squid Search PIPE...
it's kind of dusk time the sun's going down and then we starting coming closer and closer up to the surface to feed so they're just going to trawl around see if they can pull something in and when they do you'll see our first squid I have so much respect for these fishermen dragging you up squid with just a line a
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Edith Widder: Glowing...
for the deep portion of "Blue Planet." And we were using a special trawling net that we were able to bring these animals up alive. So we captured one of these, and I brought it into the lab. So I'm holding it, and I'm about to touch that tube on its shoulder, and when I do, you'll see bioluminescence coming out.
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The Astronaut of the...
so we'll find our trash or other forms of pollution we'll see you know trawl marks from a fishing net that dragged along the sea floor and more and more climate change for instance is becoming a really massive issue a lot of deep sea animals are um they're called stenotherms and it means
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Beyond the edge of the...
after the rubber ducks its own water the woodcuts here's a different way of looking at organisms on the seafloor face painting as a way to bring awareness to what's going on in the in the deep sea this is in the case of people are trawling the last example I
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Let's turn the high seas...
no country is responsible for them, but they all are, so it's a little like the Wild West. And there are two main types of fishing in the high seas. At the bottom and near the surface. Bottom trawling is the most destructive practice in the world.
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Kristina Gjerde: Making...
photographers and states -- were able to actually change a tragic trajectory that was destroying fragile seascapes such as this coral garden that you see in front of you. That is, we're able to save it from a fate of deep-sea bottom trawling.
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Will the ocean ever run...
with restrictions on certain boats and equipment. Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves.
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Herring Hazards PIPE...
pair trawling two ships to a net between them so large you could fit to Sydney Opera House's inside so heavy the Nets can't be pulled on deck and his contents are sucked into the ship with a vacuum supporters say it's
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Inside a cartoonist's...
a picture, a drawing, a doodle. These ideas come from a variety of places. Cartoonists might find the idea from observing life, reading a newspaper, trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said
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In Gorgeous Palau,...
channel has a resilient history in humans are an important part of the equation whether through the Micronesian challenge or banning bottom trawling and
Video examples
Humboldt Squid Search PIPE...
it's kind of dusk time the sun's going down and then we starting coming closer and closer up to the surface to feed so they're just going to trawl around see if they can pull something in and when they do you'll see our first squid I have so much respect for these fishermen dragging you up squid with just a line a
Video examples
Edith Widder: Glowing...
for the deep portion of "Blue Planet." And we were using a special trawling net that we were able to bring these animals up alive. So we captured one of these, and I brought it into the lab. So I'm holding it, and I'm about to touch that tube on its shoulder, and when I do, you'll see bioluminescence coming out.
Video examples
The Astronaut of the...
so we'll find our trash or other forms of pollution we'll see you know trawl marks from a fishing net that dragged along the sea floor and more and more climate change for instance is becoming a really massive issue a lot of deep sea animals are um they're called stenotherms and it means
Video examples
Beyond the edge of the...
after the rubber ducks its own water the woodcuts here's a different way of looking at organisms on the seafloor face painting as a way to bring awareness to what's going on in the in the deep sea this is in the case of people are trawling the last example I
Video examples
Let's turn the high seas...
no country is responsible for them, but they all are, so it's a little like the Wild West. And there are two main types of fishing in the high seas. At the bottom and near the surface. Bottom trawling is the most destructive practice in the world.
Video examples
Kristina Gjerde: Making...
photographers and states -- were able to actually change a tragic trajectory that was destroying fragile seascapes such as this coral garden that you see in front of you. That is, we're able to save it from a fate of deep-sea bottom trawling.
Video examples
Will the ocean ever run...
with restrictions on certain boats and equipment. Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves.
Video examples
Herring Hazards PIPE...
pair trawling two ships to a net between them so large you could fit to Sydney Opera House's inside so heavy the Nets can't be pulled on deck and his contents are sucked into the ship with a vacuum supporters say it's
Video examples
Inside a cartoonist's...
a picture, a drawing, a doodle. These ideas come from a variety of places. Cartoonists might find the idea from observing life, reading a newspaper, trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said
Video examples
In Gorgeous Palau,...
channel has a resilient history in humans are an important part of the equation whether through the Micronesian challenge or banning bottom trawling and
Example 1 of 10
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Ted Danson
American Actor
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.
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Charlotte Riley
English Actress
Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs little help from humans.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
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Vic Reeves
Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.
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Alice Temperley
British Designer
I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities.
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Emma Donoghue
Irish Playwright
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
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Andrew Eldritch
English Musician
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
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Ted Danson
American Actor
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
Quote examples
J. K. Rowling
English Author
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.
Quote examples
Charlotte Riley
English Actress
Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs little help from humans.
Quote examples
Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
Quote examples
Vic Reeves
Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.
Quote examples
Alice Temperley
British Designer
I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities.
Quote examples
Emma Donoghue
Irish Playwright
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
Quote examples
Andrew Eldritch
English Musician
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
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