noun
- fishing lines that are very long and have many hooks attached, used for commercial fishing
Usage: fishing; commercial
Examples
- The fishing boat deployed longlines to catch tuna in the deep ocean.
- Commercial fishermen use longlines that can stretch for miles underwater.
- Longlines with hundreds of hooks are set at dawn and retrieved hours later.
- The crew carefully baited each hook on the longlines before setting them.
- Environmental groups are concerned about sea turtles getting caught in longlines.
- Modern longlines use GPS technology to track their exact location.