1
: a boat used in trawling
2
: a person who fishes by trawling
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This had no impact whatsoever, of course: British seafood pirates simply devised new code systems for the trawlers to use.
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David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
However, the British trawlers got smart and got harder to catch because from 1928, they were equipped with radio and started passing messages between themselves using secret codes to alert each other when Coast Guard vessels were in and out of harbour.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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.
—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
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David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
However, the British trawlers got smart and got harder to catch because from 1928, they were equipped with radio and started passing messages between themselves using secret codes to alert each other when Coast Guard vessels were in and out of harbour.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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.
—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
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“Trawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trawler. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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trawler
noun
trawl·er
ˈtrȯ-lər 
: a boat used for trawling
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