Trap line

When free ranging small wild animals such as opossums, raccoons, or skunks were trapped for their fur, a number of traps separated by many feet might be set and constituted a trap line. Since these animals were nocturnal, the line would be run (checked) each morning.

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trap line - a line or series of traps

line - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter"

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The longer the trap line, the bigger the rock reef.

Gulf Coast trap time: crab buoys lead anglers to the right spots

Dannenmann, a head trapper on her family's trap line and certified instructor for the treaty three trapper education course, thinks that a hunt should be undertaken with the greatest certainty of success.

Trout Lake trapper wants to educate not litigate

Diamond giant De Beers Canada has been in the area for more than a year and has completed work on 29 of the 39 drill holes on Kasabonika traditional trap line areas.

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"Even the trap line (people) who are not affected (by exploration), they still get the benefits (from the young harvestor's program) because in the future there might different trap lines being explored and then we expect (the people who own those trap lines) to (share the wealth)."

Kasabonika trap lines source of diamonds: DeBeers exploring region, partnership creates jobs for natives

"The length of your crab trap line should be at least double the depth your traps are in," he said.

Stone cold crabbers: when family and friends turn to crabbing, watch out

As the initial run slowed, my son needed to direct the fish away from the crab trap line along the river's channel.

King of the river: chasing big tarpon on dark water

* If you ran a trap line on the way to school and brought in the milk cows on the way home, you never had any problem holding down a job in later years.

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Every day on the trap line is a learning experience--maybe a rewarding way to put some extra money in your pocket, and maybe just time spent outdoors.

Running the TRAPLINE: Both for wildlife management and as a source of income, fur trapping has a productive history as a useful homesteading skill

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Depths were recorded by an echosounder at the beginning and at the end of the fishing operations for each trap line.

Prospective study of the fishery of the shrimp Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787) in the Northeastern Atlantic/ Estudo prospectivo da pesca do camarao Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787) no Atlantico Nordeste

We established ten circular habitat stations (4 m radius) in each trap line. Habitat stations were placed at odd trapping stations.

Complejidad de habitat y diversidad de mamiferos pequenos en un gradiente altitudinal en el sur de Mexico

I was on the trap line, and my brain could not will my finger to hit the trigger.

Getting kicked around