单词	purse seine
释义	purse seine /seɪn / noun A large seine (fishing net) which may be drawn into the shape of a bag, used for catching shoal fish.He is a strong advocate of sound fishery management, who authored legislation in 1997 that prevents the annual slaughter of thousands of dolphins during tuna purse seine fishing.... It has been stolen from them by a mistake made by the Ministry of Fisheries when it allowed purse seine fishing to target kahawai. The law prevented fishermen from intentionally setting purse seine nets around dolphin pods in order to capture the tuna swimming in schools below them. Derivatives purse-seiner noun ... Japan, for example, is busy subsidising the decommissioning of large tuna boats, preventing old vessels being replaced. But the EU subsidises the replacement of purse-seiners. Although fishermen have used their knowledge of the tuna-dolphin relationship to catch tuna on hook-and-line for centuries, it is only since the debut of high-tech purse-seiners in 1959 that dolphins have been so abused. A total of 205 purse-seiners are allowed to operate at any one time in the area, but Taiwan has been getting around that by using bigger boats and reflagging some of its fleet to the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu.
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