What is "seiners"

Usage examples of "seiners".

By 1967, more than fifty big, modern British Columbia seiners had made the long voyage via the Panama Canal to Canada's east coast where they are now helping to clean the herring out of the Bay of Fundy, the Gulf of St.

In 1969 more than 120,000 tons of herring were taken by seiners in Newfoundland waters alone.

The seiners will go after the capelin: a slim, beautiful little fish which is found only in northern waters but which may be as numerous at present as the herring were in the days be fore the purse seine fishery began.

This is understandable since seiners and whale catchers arc driven by diesel engines that must sound ominously alike.

The whales stayed close to The Ha Ha and the nearby mouth of Bay DC Loup, except when the seiners were absent delivering their catches to the reduction plant at Harbour Breton.

They laid this to the fact that, hard-pressed by the seiners, the little fishes were being driven to seek refuge where the ships could not follow.

In the middle thirties they had begun getting harvestships as well as herds, forcing the Seiners to defend themselves before they protected their allies.

Soon, the Seiners feared, they would be numerous enough to attack and destroy whole harvestfleets.

The Seiners who came and went there were more closed mouthed than ever.

And suppose she has control and didn’t turn it on till after the Seiners stopped worrying about things like that?

Marya, don’t think the Seiners will hand over a harvestfleet because a few raidships turn up.

The only Seiners around were those who had been sent to show the landsmen to their quarters and brief them about their job assignments.

But Kindervoort, for whom the outsiders had become a pet project, planned to make recreation day a gigantic college smoker, with floods of Seiners being exposed to landside ways.

He guessed that within four hours there would be no Seiners on The Broken Wings who were not part of the security effort.

The Seiners did not have what it took to do a man first hand, in cold blood.