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a floating shovel that scrapes the seafloor for dinner and accidental archaeology.
means A fishing boat that catches fish by dragging a large net (a trawl) through the water or along the seabed.
from From the verb "trawl," which entered English in the 16th century, probably from Middle Dutch "traghelen," to drag, related to "traghel," a dragnet — itself possibly traceable to Latin "tragula," a dragnet or sledge. The "-er" is the ordinary English agent suffix that turns a doer's action into a thing that does it, so a trawler is simply "that which trawls."
- bottom drag
- nets scrape the seabed, flattening centuries-old reefs
- odd catch
- trawlers haul up mammoth tusks and shipwrecks
- carbon punch
- seabed dragging releases CO2 like global aviation
- factory ships
- some process and freeze fish entirely at sea
stern trawler cod wars — british and icelandic fishing vessels clashed over north atlantic cod grounds in 1958-1961, nearly sparking nato conflict
andrea gail perfect storm — swordfishing trawler lost with all 6 hands off nova scotia in october 1991 during historic nor'easter