longline

longline
1) a fishing line with baited hooks set at intervals on branch lines; it may be 150 km long and have several thousand hooks and can be on the sea bed or above it supported by floats. It may be anchored or drift free and is marked by floats. Seabirds may take the baited hook before it sinks and are pulled underwater to drown. This can be partly avoided by setting streamers that flap and scare birds away, by setting lines at night when most albatross do not feed, weighting the line so it sinks quickly, using bird-scaring water cannons, and setting the line nearer the water surface rather than over the side of the boat. Also called line trawl
2) a long line on the end of fishing rod
3) a fishing pole with a rig the same length; used mostly in trotting, q.v
4) end rope (a line connecting the end of the first or last section of a longline backrope or string to the dan line (all q.v.). Also called back of line, dumb string, dummy, end tow, lud tow and spreadline)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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