What does purse-seine mean?
Purse-seine means To fish using a purse seine..
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To fish using a purse seine..
Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small. John, born in 1945, […] began in a little dory with his father. They gillnetted, longlined, jigged, purse seined, and survived in the postwar years of poverty.
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Purse-seine means To fish using a purse seine..
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Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small. John, born in 1945, […] began in a little dory with his father. They gillnetted, longlined, jigged, purse seined, and survived in the postwar years of poverty.
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