Definition of "longliner" [longliner]

• A fisherman or fishing boat that uses longlines (noun)

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• "At the same time, the numbers of large cod in deep water near the coast of Newfoundland are thought to have declined quickly as the longliner fleet switched to synthetic gillnets."
• "As a commercial fisherman on a factory longliner in the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska and near the Aleutian Islands, I have had plenty of opportunities to observe killer whales up close and personal."
• "Bosun Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon untangling line confiscated from the Uruguayan longliner La Paloma."