seiner

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Recent Examples of seiner Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up. San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023 Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist. David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023 After five years in the U.S. Army, Herring had become a deckhand on a purse seiner off the coast of Maine. Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022 Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish. Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010 The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings. Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019 By Six Seiners Sharon said she was nearly run down by six seiners while coming down the coast from Point Arguello. San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2019 Take a scenic drive along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up with their catch. San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019 Anyone who has ever worked aboard a seiner has horror stories of close calls, or worse. Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seiner
Noun
  • The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has dwindled their population, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
    Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • Central bankers cut rates three times last year and projected two more this year.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The big picture: Private equity buyers have demonstrated a willingness to pay healthy multiples for restaurant businesses, an industry banker says.
    Richard Collings, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • However, the special $3 PATH ferry tickets people received expired overnight and are not refundable.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Because of its ferry port with daily departures to Denmark, Kristiansand makes an obvious choice for an overnight break as part of a longer Scandinavian road trip.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.
    Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With a vast deep-water area to search, team member Richard Keen, a legendary diver who previously discovered several Roman wrecks off the coast of Guernsey, decided to check with local fishermen to see if any had snagged trawler gear on an underwater obstruction.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Modern industrial fishing fleets drag lines with thousands of hooks miles behind a vessel, and industrial trawlers on the high seas drop nets thousands of feet below the sea’s surface.
    Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
Noun
  • Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.
    Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018

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“Seiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seiner. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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