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Meaning of "purse seine" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PURSE SEINE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURSE SEINE

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Purse seine is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PURSE SEINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

purse seine

Seine fishing

Seine fishing is a method of fishing that employs a seine or dragnet. A seine is a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top edge buoyed by floats. Seine nets can be deployed from the shore as a beach seine, or from a boat. Boats deploying seine nets are known as seiners. There are two main types of seine net deployed from seiners: purse seines and Danish seines.

Definition of purse seine in the English dictionary

The definition of purse seine in the dictionary is a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom by means of a line resembling the string formerly used to draw shut the neck of a money pouch or purse.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PURSE SEINE

purse
purse snatcher
purse strings
purse-proud
purseful
purselike
purser
pursership
pursily
pursiness
purslane
pursuable
pursual
pursuance
pursuant
pursuantly
pursue
pursuer
pursuing
pursuingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE PURSE SEINE

Boulogne-sur-Seine
caffeine
codeine
cysteine
dihydrocodeine
eine
fluoresceine
Hauts-de-Seine
Heine
homocysteine
madeleine
mauveine
narceine
Neuilly-sur-Seine
seine
sparteine
theine
vicereine

Synonyms and antonyms of purse seine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «purse seine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PURSE SEINE

Find out the translation of purse seine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of purse seine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «purse seine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

围网
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de cerco
570 millions of speakers

English

purse seine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बटुआ सीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكيسية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кошелек невода
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

com rede de cerco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পার্স সাইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

senne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sehelai dompet
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ringwaden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

巾着網
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Purse seine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vây
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பர்ஸ் சீன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्स सिनेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çanta seini
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cianciolo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

okrężnica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гаманець невода
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plasă-pungă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γρι-γρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sleepnet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snörpvad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snurpenot
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of purse seine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PURSE SEINE»

The term «purse seine» is regularly used and occupies the 92.501 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PURSE SEINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about purse seine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURSE SEINE»

Discover the use of purse seine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purse seine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Purse-seining with Small Boats
THE PURSE-SEINE When many fish swim close to each other and in the same direction, we call them a school of fish. A purse- seine is a net which catches schools of fish (Figure 2). Figure 2. This is a purse. lt has rings at the top. A string is ...
M. Ben-Yami, 1987
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The Coastal Resources of Brunei Darussalam: Status, ...
A maximum of two to three setting operations is made during the course of a purse seine trip. Occasionally, during moonless nights, nighttime purse seine operations with the use of lights as fish lures are conducted. Trawl and purse seine ...
Geronimo Silvestre, 1992
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Marine and Freshwater Products Handbook
Nets in Motion The purse seine is a motion net designed for and especially effective in the capture of schooling fish such as mackerel, tuna, sardines, salmon , herring, and menhaden. All purse seines work on the same principle: a wall of net is ...
Roy E. Martin, Emily Paine Carter, George J. Flick, Jr., 2000
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Review of the State of World Marine Fishery Resources
Mexico and several Mediterranean countries (particularly Croatia, Italy, Malta, Morocco. Spain and Turkey). Presently, on the industrial scale, tuna and tuna- like species are mainly caught with purse-seine, longline and pole-and-line over wide ...
‎2005
5
Status of Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries in 1995
2.1.1 Thai purse seine fisheries Until 1993, catch statistics of the Government of Thailand sub-categorized the purse seine fisheries into Thai purse seine, anchovy purse seine and luring purse seine fisheries. After 1994 the fisheries were ...
Richard S. Shomura, Jacek Majkowski, Robert F. Harman, 1996
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A Fishery Manager's Guidebook: Management Measures and Their ...
The warps are pulled in so that the seine approaches the beach in a semicircular form - and most of the fish in the area between the seine and the beach are likely to be caught. In many seine fisheries, both beach seine and purse seine, light ...
K. L. Cochrane, 2002
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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 50, Wildlife and ...
(4) Purse Seine category quota. (i) The total amount of large medium and giant BFT that may be caught, retained, possessed, or landed by vessels that possess Purse Seine category Atlantic Tunas permits is 18.6 percent (171.8 mt) of the ...
Office of the Federal Register (U S ), 2012
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
(i) Managing Owners of purse seine vessels of 400 short tons carrying capacity or less will be notified by registered mail that their vessel is in this category and is subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) (2) 399 Chapter II — National Marine ...
‎1977
9
Fisheries Management in Japan: Its institutional features ...
5.2.1.2 Development of Purse Seine Fishing in Japan Japanese purse seine fishing started in the central part of Japan in the early seventeenth century. The net was about 600 m in length, and operated with 9 boats crewed by more than 50 ...
Mitsutaku Makino, 2011
10
Use of Property Rights in Fisheries Management: Proceedings ...
REVIEW OF EXISTING PROGRAMMES 2.1 Fisheries under IFQ management Five U.S. fisheries are under IFQ management: the purse seine fishery for bluefin tuna off the northeast Al- tantic coast of the U.S.; the surf clam/ocean quahog ...
Ross Shotton, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURSE SEINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term purse seine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Local disappointment over further Cook Island purse seining
The government has access agreements with two Korean based purse seine fishing companies, Silla Co Ltd and Dongwon Fisheries Ltd, and the New Zealand ... «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
2
Alaska pink purse seine fishery to open June 21
The first opening for the Alaska pink salmon purse seine fishery will be Sunday, June 21 for four days, according to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game ... «IntraFish.com, Jun 15»
3
EU bluefin tuna purse seine season ends early with full quota …
The European bluefin tuna purse seine season come to an early close this year, with quotas fully harvested, according to the European Commission. «IntraFish.com, Jun 15»
4
Togiak Purse Seine Sac Roe Herring Harvest Total
image26-09-2014 12.42.33 Sixteen vessels caught an estimated total of 20,374 tons of fish in Togiak's 2015 purse seine sac roe herring fishery, a catch valued ... «Alaska Native News, Jun 15»
5
Net Systems adds purse seine net loft
The purse seine net loft has moved to the Net Systems location on Bainbridge where it shares two buildings with a trawl net loft, a welding shop and eight state ... «World Fishing, May 15»
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Purse seine fishers agree to further reduction
The World Tuna Purse Seine Organisation has announced that its members have agreed to a 35 percent reduction in fishing effort until the end of the year. «Radio New Zealand, May 15»
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Cook Islands purse seine protesters to present petition
Protesters campaigning against purse seine fishing in the Cook Islands hope to table a petition to ban the practice in the country's Exclusive Economic Zone in ... «Radio New Zealand, May 15»
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Protests in Rarotonga against foreign fishing
About 400 people rallied in Rarotonga on Friday to protest the use of purse seine fishing and fish aggregation devices by foreign vessels in Cook Islands waters. «Radio New Zealand, Apr 15»
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Fishermen allege use of tractors, purse seine nets
Tamil Nadu Meenpidi Thozhirsanga Koottamaippu, affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), has appealed to the district administration and the ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
10
Cook Islands petition against purse seiners
The government has signed a deal with the Korean fishing company Silla Co for 400 days of purse seine fishing, and a US fleet of purse seiners has been ... «Radio New Zealand, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Purse seine [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/purse-seine>. Apr 2024 ».
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