What (who) is longline - definition
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Longline; Long-line; Long lines; Long line (disambiguation); Longlines; Long-lines
longline
¦ noun a deep-sea fishing line with a large number of hooks attached to it.
longline
To take a very long and grueling trip. The meaning is derived from the name for the long distance phone companies' lines (long lines, which are either copper or fiberoptic) that stretch quite lenghty distances, usually continuously from coast to coast, or within the continent outside of the US (to Canada or Mexico).
Jim's gonna be gone for the next couple of days, he's got to longline it to San Francisco to Boston by car.
Jim's gonna be gone for the next couple of days, he's got to longline it to San Francisco to Boston by car.
Longline bycatch in Hawaii
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The Hawaii longline fishery is managed under Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s (WPRFMC's) Pelagics Fisheries Ecosystem Plan (formerly Pelagics Fisheries Management Plan). Through this plan, the WPRFMC has introduced logbooks, observers, vessel monitoring systems, fishing gear modifications and spatial management for the Hawaii longline fishery.
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Long line
Long line or longline may refer to:
- Long Line, an album by Peter Wolf
- Long line (topology), or Alexandroff line, a topological space
- Long line (telecommunications), a transmission line in a long-distance communications network
- Longline fishing, a commercial fishing technique
- AT&T Long Lines, a telecommunications network
- AT&T Long Lines Building, now known as 33 Thomas Street, a building in New York City
- Aerial crane or longline, a transport method
Pronunciation examples for longline
1. We use longlines
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2. of the type that longline fishermen use,
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Examples of use of longline
1. "The crew stopped winching in the longline for two hours, while the squid was maneuvered into a cargo net and hauled aboard," he said.
2. He said that although Stroud deserves credit for developing a chemical shark repellent that works, "getting it to work on longline gear is a challenge." Longlines can stretch across 60 miles of ocean, and the repellent must be released around every hook÷ 800 to 2,500 sites for a single longline.
3. Through the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations we have produced measures to reduce sea turtle and seabird mortality in longline fishing.
4. Alaska‘s longline fishermen began using streamer lines in the late 1''0s and have found them to be very effective, said Dan Falvey, captain of the Myriad out of Sitka, who helped design the lines for smaller vessels.
5. These findings have prompted several scientists and conservationists to call on the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to shut down longline fishing in the Gulf of Mexico between April and June while bluefin tuna are spawning there.