1
: a boat used in trawling
2
: a person who fishes by trawling
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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.
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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
They are targeted by commercial trawlers in various deep-water parts of the South China Sea and off the south-central coast of Vietnam.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
They're also often unintentionally caught in fishing trawler nets.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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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
They are targeted by commercial trawlers in various deep-water parts of the South China Sea and off the south-central coast of Vietnam.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
They're also often unintentionally caught in fishing trawler nets.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Trawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trawler. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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trawler
noun
trawl·er
ˈtrȯ-lər 
: a boat used for trawling
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