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longline

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long·line  (lôngln, lng-)
n.
A heavy fishing line usually several miles long and having a series of baited hooks.
long-lining n.
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Other birds being hit by European fishbaited ermen include the great shearwater, which reportedly loses 50,000 birds every year in longline hake fisheries off Ireland and the Steller's eider duck caught in gill-nets in the Baltic Sea.
200,000 BIRDS A YEAR KILLED BY FISHERMEN; Conservation groups urge EU ... by The Mirror (London, England)
Other birds which are being hit by EU fishermen include the great shearwater, which loses 50,000 birds year in the longline hake fishery on the Gran Sol grounds west of Ireland.
Fishing killing seabirds say RSPB by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Shark longliners, who use basically the same type of gear grouper longliners use, are currently exempt from an emergency measure which until November 2009 prohibits "all reef fish longline fishing" in Gulf of Mexico waters shallower than 300 feet.
No bottom longlines, unless you want sharks by Weakley, Jeff / Florida Sportsman
 
 
 
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