How to Use seine in a Sentence

seine

noun
Definition of seinenext
  • The three of us hauled one of John B.’s fifteen-yard seine nets over to the Croatan Sound.
    — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The fish are small and tend to hide in vegetation, and sampling relies on catching the darters in seine nets.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The boats were out Monday catching salmon on a purse seine — a long wall of netting used to encircle fish.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
  • Purse seine fishing nets: Large nets used to capture an enormous volume of fish at once.
    — Adam Skolnick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The most common piece of gear on a seine vessel is also one of the deadliest – the rotating capstan winch used for winding ropes.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Down at the small boat harbor, fisherman Hein Kruithof secured a trailer heaped with seine nets behind his ailing pickup.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Suttkus was a relentless field biologist, wading hip- and neck-deep in the waters of the region over the next 50 years, pulling one end of a 10-foot-long seine net while a graduate student at the other end tried to keep up.
    — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • At our new camp just above the Kasikasima Rapids, the scientists redeploy their dragnet of seines, mist nets, pit traps, Winkler extractors, aluminum boxes and other collecting devices.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The Asian carp, which included 40 silver carp and 11 grass carp, were collected by commercial fishermen using seines to target buffalo and common carp.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Not surprisingly, thousands of fishermen, using all kinds of seines, gill nets, and scoop nets, descend on the Tonle Sap during the annual migration to take advantage of the river’s bounty.
    — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Flipper aired on television, save-the-dolphin campaigns sprang up, and in 1988, an undercover video of dolphins dying in a purse-seine net sparked international outrage and a worldwide tuna boycott.
    — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2016
  • Likewise, oyster beds were scoured and permanently damaged, and shrimp populations were hit hard by the introduction of innovative seafood-harvesting methods like the seine net.
    — Philip Connors, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • In a fish-escape recovery plan filed with the state as a condition to operate, Cooke also committed to recapture escaped fish using company skiffs and seines, and/or enlisting tribes or contracting and hiring commercial fishing-boat operators.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The three of us hauled one of John B.’s fifteen-yard seine nets over to the Croatan Sound.
    — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The fish are small and tend to hide in vegetation, and sampling relies on catching the darters in seine nets.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The boats were out Monday catching salmon on a purse seine — a long wall of netting used to encircle fish.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
  • Purse seine fishing nets: Large nets used to capture an enormous volume of fish at once.
    — Adam Skolnick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The most common piece of gear on a seine vessel is also one of the deadliest – the rotating capstan winch used for winding ropes.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Down at the small boat harbor, fisherman Hein Kruithof secured a trailer heaped with seine nets behind his ailing pickup.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Suttkus was a relentless field biologist, wading hip- and neck-deep in the waters of the region over the next 50 years, pulling one end of a 10-foot-long seine net while a graduate student at the other end tried to keep up.
    — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • At our new camp just above the Kasikasima Rapids, the scientists redeploy their dragnet of seines, mist nets, pit traps, Winkler extractors, aluminum boxes and other collecting devices.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The Asian carp, which included 40 silver carp and 11 grass carp, were collected by commercial fishermen using seines to target buffalo and common carp.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Not surprisingly, thousands of fishermen, using all kinds of seines, gill nets, and scoop nets, descend on the Tonle Sap during the annual migration to take advantage of the river’s bounty.
    — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Flipper aired on television, save-the-dolphin campaigns sprang up, and in 1988, an undercover video of dolphins dying in a purse-seine net sparked international outrage and a worldwide tuna boycott.
    — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2016
  • Likewise, oyster beds were scoured and permanently damaged, and shrimp populations were hit hard by the introduction of innovative seafood-harvesting methods like the seine net.
    — Philip Connors, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • In a fish-escape recovery plan filed with the state as a condition to operate, Cooke also committed to recapture escaped fish using company skiffs and seines, and/or enlisting tribes or contracting and hiring commercial fishing-boat operators.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Oct. 2017

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