1
: a boat used in trawling
2
: a person who fishes by trawling
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Modern industrial fishing fleets drag lines with thousands of hooks miles behind a vessel, and industrial trawlers on the high seas drop nets thousands of feet below the sea’s surface.
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Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
They are targeted by commercial trawlers in various deep-water parts of the South China Sea and off the south-central coast of Vietnam.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
They're also often unintentionally caught in fishing trawler nets.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
The 18 course tasting menu comes as a series of tiny plates, with snow crab from Norway, squid from the West coast, a bye-catch from the shrimp trawlers’ nets, and bleak roe from Lake Mälaren.
—Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
They are targeted by commercial trawlers in various deep-water parts of the South China Sea and off the south-central coast of Vietnam.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
They're also often unintentionally caught in fishing trawler nets.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
The 18 course tasting menu comes as a series of tiny plates, with snow crab from Norway, squid from the West coast, a bye-catch from the shrimp trawlers’ nets, and bleak roe from Lake Mälaren.
—Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Trawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trawler. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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trawler
noun
trawl·er
ˈtrȯ-lər 
: a boat used for trawling
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