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a ships sets a purse seine.

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Purse Seine

A purse seine is a huge wall of netting that is set in a circle around a school of...

a graphic of a boat towing a trawl

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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

Bottom trawling is a type of fishing in which a large net is dragged along the...

An illustration of a recently discovered species of Monodontid, Bohaskaia monodontoides, and its beluga and narwhale relatives

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Illustration of a New Fossil Whale, Bohaskaia monodontoides

A reconstruction of a new fossil beluga relative, Bohaskaia monodontoides,...