: a heavy fishing line that may be many miles long and that has baited hooks in series
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But loss of habitat from developing coasts and getting caught in commercial fishing nets and longlines nearly wiped them out.
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Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
The 3-mile longline belonged to one of only five vessels in the world permitted by NOAA to harvest sandbar sharks for research.
—Hannah Phillips, USA Today, 4 June 2025
The research team pulled together data from 160 studies covering 147 shark species caught on longlines or in gillnets, using this to build models that predicted AVM and PRM for over 340 species.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
In April 2020, Mansell and Moore took a group, which included the Kansas City police chief and a SWAT officer, and encountered a buoy connected to a longline over a dive site.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
The 3-mile longline belonged to one of only five vessels in the world permitted by NOAA to harvest sandbar sharks for research.
—Hannah Phillips, USA Today, 4 June 2025
The research team pulled together data from 160 studies covering 147 shark species caught on longlines or in gillnets, using this to build models that predicted AVM and PRM for over 340 species.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
In April 2020, Mansell and Moore took a group, which included the Kansas City police chief and a SWAT officer, and encountered a buoy connected to a longline over a dive site.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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“Longline.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longline. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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