How to Use seine in a Sentence

seine

noun
  • The fish are small and tend to hide in vegetation, and sampling relies on catching the darters in seine nets.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The boats were out Monday catching salmon on a purse seine — a long wall of netting used to encircle fish.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
  • Keep the lower edge of the seine against the bottom and the top out of the water to prevent minnows from escaping.
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • The most common piece of gear on a seine vessel is also one of the deadliest – the rotating capstan winch used for winding ropes.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2018
  • One partner holds his end of the seine on shore while the other partner wades through the shallows holding the other, sweeping the seine in a wide arc to herd minnows toward the bank.
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • Down at the small boat harbor, fisherman Hein Kruithof secured a trailer heaped with seine nets behind his ailing pickup.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The boat had caught too many fish and the encircling wall of the purse-seine net was broke as it was being closed and winched up, releasing tons of crushed and suffocated animals.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Boats with electric fishing equipment and underwater speakers then herded the carp into smaller and smaller cells, until they were all pulled up with a commercial seine fishing net.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Likewise, oyster beds were scoured and permanently damaged, and shrimp populations were hit hard by the introduction of innovative seafood-harvesting methods like the seine net.
    — Philip Connors, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • The Asian carp, which included 40 silver carp and 11 grass carp, were collected by commercial fishermen using seines to target buffalo and common carp.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Southern flounder have suffered a precipitous, long-term decline for decades, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department data such as seine bag and gill net surveys.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Suttkus was a relentless field biologist, wading hip- and neck-deep in the waters of the region over the next 50 years, pulling one end of a 10-foot-long seine net while a graduate student at the other end tried to keep up.
    — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • At our new camp just above the Kasikasima Rapids, the scientists redeploy their dragnet of seines, mist nets, pit traps, Winkler extractors, aluminum boxes and other collecting devices.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Not surprisingly, thousands of fishermen, using all kinds of seines, gill nets, and scoop nets, descend on the Tonle Sap during the annual migration to take advantage of the river’s bounty.
    — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Flipper aired on television, save-the-dolphin campaigns sprang up, and in 1988, an undercover video of dolphins dying in a purse-seine net sparked international outrage and a worldwide tuna boycott.
    — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2016

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