Sentences with phrase «heavy fishing line»

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More in hope than anticipation, I had slung out a large and particularly smelly lump of cheese on a heavy line with a lead weight into a near bank glide and left the rod to fish for itself, while I concentrated on trying to catch something on my more subtle float fishing tackle.

Researchers already know that heavy - duty commercial fishing lines and lobster and crab traps, connected to the surface by long ropes, pose a formidable threat to whales in the North Atlantic, by inflicting deep wounds and sapping their energy reserves.

But the return of commercial fishers — especially long - line tuna boats — outside the 12 - mile zone is bad enough, says Richmond, who predicts a heavy toll on sharks as well as tunas, as the bycatch rate is one shark for every two tunas.

Former Bay Area artist Robert Strati turns in a tough little wall piece he calls «Squiggle» (2005), a little arrested tornado of heavy wire and fishing line, unaccountably satisfying.

Even more corals are damaged underwater by fishing activities, with long trenches of corals destroyed by the heavy doors used for trawling activities, as well as from being snagged by long - lines and pot fishing as they're dragged along the sea floor.