Purse Seine

Definition: Purse Seine

Purse Seine

Noun

1. A seine designed to be set by two boats around a school of fish and then closed at the bottom by means of a line.

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Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Purse Seine

The Spanish tuna purse seiner F/V TXORI-EDER in the western Indian Ocean. Smaller vessel on the stern is secured to purse seine and when a school of tuna is encountered, the small boat is launched and it helps ship encircle it. Credit: Fisheries.

Dory used as purse seine boat fishing for herring on the Maine coast. Credit: Fisheries.

The CAPE BEVERLY, one of the first commercial tuna vessels outfitted for purse seining operations. This photo was taken on its maiden voyage. Published in: "Purse Seine Revolution in Tuna Fishing", by Richard McNeely, Pacific Fisherman, June 1961. Credit: Fisheries.

Ship is finishing deployment of purse seine net. Almost all of the net is now in the water and the ship will continue to encircle the school of tuna while the workboat (not shown) holds the other end of the net. Credit: Fisheries.

Closing the purse seine. This picture of early tuna purse seining operations illustrates that often dolphins and other marine mammals were caught as a byproduct of tuna fishing. Today, efforts are made to minimize the harm to marine mammal species during tuna purse seining operations. Credit: Fisheries.

Nets, purse seine boat, and wake are seen as looking aft from the stern of a tuna boat in the tropical Pacific. Credit: Fisheries.

Purse seine being closed prior to harvesting the tuna. The small boat is used to make noise and keep the tuna within the net prior to closing. Credit: Fisheries.

Men in the purse seine boats standby as the pumping operation proceeds. The menhaden are being lifted to the mother vessel. Credit: Fisheries.

Menhaden fishing - beginning to haul in the purse seine with the power blocks. Credit: Fisheries.

Start of purse seine set on the Fish and Wildlife Service Ship JOHN R. MANNING. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Japanese Kanji 

巻網 , 巻き網 (round haul net). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まきあみ (round haul net). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Misspellings

"Purse Seine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: purse seiner. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eeriness, enureses, enuresis, erepsins, eserines, nereises, penuries, pureness, resupine, ripeness.

-3 letters: ensures, erepsin, eserine, insures, peeress, peeries, penises, pensees, peruses, puisnes, purines, pussier, reissue, repines, seepier, seiners, seisure, sereins, serenes, serines, snipers, sunrise, supines, suspire, uprisen, uprises.

-4 letters: ensues, ensure, enures, espies, insure, inures, issuer, nereis, nurses, peerie, peises, pensee, perses, peruse, pisser.

+2 letters: impurenesses, unexpressive, unripenesses.

+3 letters: repulsiveness, sesquiterpene, superagencies, superheroines, supersensible.

+4 letters: percussiveness, perilousnesses, persuasiveness, perviousnesses, preciousnesses, previousnesses, pridefulnesses, sesquiterpenes, supereminences, superenciphers, superexpensive, supersensitive.

+5 letters: imperiousnesses, penuriousnesses, pestiferousness, picturesqueness, pretentiousness, purposivenesses, repetitiousness, repulsivenesses, superelevations, superintendents, superlativeness, supernumeraries, suppressiveness, underemphasizes.