Definition of purse seine
: a large seine designed to be set by two boats around a school of fish and so arranged that after the ends have been brought together the bottom can be closed
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Recent Examples on the Web Even those with legal clearance are often armed with longlines or destructive purse seine nets that let nothing escape.
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Adam Skolnick, Longreads, "The Poke Paradox," 10 Aug. 2020 According to records provided by the fisheries department, there are 1285 trawl boats, 57 purse seine boats, and 1487 mechanised gill nets and other boats registered in south Karnataka.
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Supriya Vohra, Quartz India, "“There is no fish in the ocean”: The future has arrived in this Indian fishing village," 18 Feb. 2020 The tide rises underneath the cannery, lifting the purse seine boats tied to the pier.
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Anjuli Grantham, Alaska Dispatch News, "At Larsen Bay, a cannery where the tenacious rhythm of salmon season holds sway," 9 Sep. 2017
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The first known use of purse seine was in 1838
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