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
  • Lowe's grandfather was a commercial fisherman, and his grandfather's uncles were commercial whalers, who passed down the terror of whales to the subsequent generations, Lowe said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • They’re named after Johan Bryde, an early 20th-century Norwegian whaler.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Mitch is a successful banker who hates his job and the life it’s bought him, with a wife who does not understand him.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
  • But if there’s a wave of momentum for such cable TV deals, Wall Street and bankers have been hiding it well.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
    Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The Argo-Saronic Islands Hydra Photo: Getty Images Catch the two-hour ferry from Athens to reach this quintessential port town.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 26 May 2025
  • Engage with the only authorized provider of ferry service.
    Michael Burke, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Gulf Coast shrimpers have been pummeled in recent years by natural and man-made disasters, as well as rising fuel costs.
    Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Southern shrimpers face multiple challenges, including rising costs and cheaper foreign imports.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Shrimp trawlers caught these deep-sea sharks between depths of about 1,000 to 1,300 feet, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • This new deal extends fishing rights for EU trawlers in U.K. waters until 2038, an agreement particularly coveted by Brussels as an existing deal was due to expire next year.
    Holly Ellyatt,Silvia Amaro, CNBC, 19 May 2025
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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