A boat used in catching fish for food.
gulls are attracted to fishing boats
Example sentencesExamples
- Farther along the wharf we find a small fleet of fishing boats bobbing in a slick of diesel.
- We prepared to fly fishery-protection patrol around the northwest side, looking for illegal fishing boats.
- He thought his number was up when his fishing boat capsized and his life jacket was swept away.
- The next year he started working as a deckhand on a fishing boat.
- It was an ancient, wooden fishing boat.
- Those who want more activity can charter a deep-sea fishing boat, with a chance to bring home dinner.
- He now works as a charter fishing boat captain.
- A few survivors were rescued by Indonesian fishing boats twenty hours later.
- Occasional lights in the distance are small fishing boats at work.
- Scottish fishing boats took the survivors and possessions to Anstruther in Fife.
- It was a small converted fishing boat with a little diesel engine.
- It is understood that the fishing boat was seized in the same area.