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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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But the gear also takes prized sportfish like marlin and sailfish as well as endangered sharks, and offshore anglers have complained that longlines are decimating all open ocean stocks.
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