Doubtless the size of Ball's dredge would have grown still more had it not been proved by the "Challenger" expedition that for many purposes trawls could be used advantageously instead of dredges.
The chief advantage of this frame is that it does not matter in the least which side lands first on the bottom; it is to the other trawls what Ball's dredge is to an oyster dredge.
As soon as trawls were adopted fish began to make their appearance.
In shallow seas such as the North Sea commercial beam and other trawls are now used as quantitative instruments in the estimation of the fish population, especially of the Pleuronectidae.
All out of myself with pride I was--I that was no more than a lad, but hauling halibut trawls with full-grown Gloucester men on the Grand Banks!
A wicked day coming, but no help for it now till daylight comes to see our trawls to haul 'em.
Some of the fishermen prosecute their craft only “inshore,” using small boats, remaining out but a few hours and fishing with hand lines as well as with trawlsfrom the dories.
It is the work of tending these trawls that takes the greatest skill and fearlessness.
Before they had been at the trawls long the weather had become so thick that they couldn't see ten feet from the dory's gunwale.
The trawls are let down about dusk, and the fleet attached to these moving anchors forge slowly ahead and to leeward, until daybreak.
At 10 o'clock at night the trawls are hauled in, and the nets emptied.
Then the trawls are got in, and the fleet sail in a body to the spot where the admiral decides that fishing shall be continued in the evening.
Quantity and Average Landing Value of Round Fishes, caught with Trawls and Lines, landed on the Coasts of England and Wales.
Sometimes during the night while we were fishing into the west, a hundred sail or more of vessels, we would pass through another big fleet coming the other way, and some of our long trawls and warps would tangle with theirs.
To emphasize how comparatively recently the Channel had been dry land, many teeth and tusks of mammoths who used to roam its now buried forests were given up to the trawls by the ever-shifting sands.
An hour before the trawls were hauled Ferrier suggested that the yacht should be allowed to sail, just to see if a case could be picked up.
Wait till we run into the fleet; we shall be sure to catch them before the trawls go down for the night, and, unless I'm mistaken, some of us will be astonished.
It was Sunday: some of the vessels had their sails set and their trawls down, their crews in their dirty week-day dresses standing ready to haul them on board.
Those who had been trawling all day hauled their trawls on board; and those which had been brought up, lifted their anchors, and all made sail together.
Then the trawls were got overboard, each being fastened to the end of a stout spar lashed across the deck, and projecting some eight feet on either side, by which arrangement the trawls were kept well apart.
Now that the trawls were out there was no occasion for any one to attend to the helm, consequently when Joe announced that the fish were ready Ralph went down and joined him in the cabin.
They were "on fish," and when they left their buoyed trawls at nightfall, there was fifteen thousand pounds in the deck pens.
From these dories, when launched on the fishing grounds, two fishermen set the long trawls with every hook baited and the line anchored along the bottom.
We can buy hake heads for our lobster-traps from the fish-wharf at Matinicus, and herring for the trawls from one of the weirs at Vinalhaven.
As Lane and Spurling started for the Barracouta to dress the fifteen hundred pounds of hake they had taken off the trawls that morning Percy joined them, clad in oilskins.
In the middle of the afternoon, while the boys were baiting trawls on the Barracouta, another boat chugged into the cove.
We want to begin as quick as we can to round up some of those dollars that are finning and crawling in to us, so we mustn't waste any time in getting our trawls and traps overboard.
Slogging at the heavytrawls and afterward dressing the catch was too plebeian a business for the son of a millionaire.
Jim and Percy had started off with their trawls some time before.
By the dim light of two lanterns, Jim, Throppy, Budge, and Filippo were busy baiting the trawls with herring and coiling them into the tubs in the standing-room.
By the time they reached Tarpaulin, at about half past four, all the six trawls were baited.
Her absence would interfere seriously with pulling the trawls and lose Spurling & Company a good many dollars.
Fishing is done by trawls and hand-lining, and of late years a large and increasing gill-netting fleet has operated in these waters, especially from March to June.
This is also a small-boat ground, where fishing is done mainly by hand lines, but trawls also are employed.
Hand lines and trawls are used here now, although in former times this and the preceding grounds were considered too sharp for the use of trawls.
This ground is visited principally by small boats, the greater part of the catch being taken by gill nets, although trawls and hand lines also are used here.
Hand lines and trawls are used here, fished by sloops and vessels.
Depths are from 45 to 60 fathoms, and fishing is done by trawls and hand lines.
This is fished by hand lines and trawls mainly by craft from New Harbor.
The bottom is rocky and broken and, while sharp, is fished withtrawls as well as hand lines.
In general it is a small-boat ground on which chiefly hand lines and trawls are operated, A few cod and cusk are taken here in the fall, and it is a good lobster ground.
This ground is fished by hand lines, gill nets, and trawls mainly by boats and small craft.
Currents are very strong here, as elsewhere in these waters, so that trawls are set only on the slack of the tides, beginning about one hour before and remaining down until about one hour after these periods.
In the warm season the pots are frequently set on trawls or "ground lines," as lobsters are quite thick then on the rocky bottom near shore.
In the latter year it was discovered that by setting the pots on trawls more pots could be set and only one man would be required to work them.
As a result of this the use of trawls decreased very rapidly.
The fog cleared that night and they smashed out to the fishing-grounds ahead of a cracking breeze, and had their trawlsdown in the early dawn.
Then in the first lull she had sent her dories over the rail and had put down her trawls for a set, and a rousing set it was!
There's where the cod are, out along them reefs; and you can set a couple of short trawls for hake.
Then, when they had underrun both trawls, they would stand off in the Viking for a different feeding-ground for the cod, and fish until it was time to bait up the trawls for the night.
If the night's catch had been good, the trawls came up heavy; and there was ever the danger, with the pitching of the boat, of running one of the innumerable hooks into the hands.
A great many of the trawlers, in the attempt to get away from the firing when it began, lost their trawls or damaged them.
The Hull fishermen, of the Gamecock and Great Northern Fleets, had their trawls down and were thus deprived of the possibility of rapid movement, when about midnight they sighted a number of warships steaming from the northeast.
The bait did not arrive till the half-past twelve train, and they were obliged to work the whole night getting their trawls ready, thus leaving the way perfectly clear for Louis Wagner's awful work.
They intended to be back to dinner, and then to go on to Portsmouth with their fish, and bait the trawls afresh, ready to bring back to set again next day.
I change off to nettin' long towards spring, and I piece up my trawls and lines and get my fishin' stuff to rights.
Nothing was going on, not even the most leisurely of occupations, like baiting trawls or mending nets, or repairing lobster pots; the very boats seemed to be taking an afternoon nap in the sun.
Innumerable wherries dart about, rowed by two men each; they are strongly built, for baiting trawlson the banks and in a sea is no child's play.
The men lost in fogs or bad weather while looking for or visiting their trawls swell the list of casualties year by year.
Fitting out fishing-vessels, instead of being the simple matter it once was, has become an affair of capital, the trawls for a vessel sometimes costing fifteen hundred dollars.
Sailing vessels or boats fishing with nets or lines or trawls when under way shall in daytime indicate their occupation to an approaching vessel by displaying a basket or other efficient signal where it can best be seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trawls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
