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What is long-lining?

What is long-lining? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A type of commercial fishing using a very long line with many baited hooks attached along its length.
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Long-lining involves, as the name suggests, a long line to which several hooks are attached to by short snoods.
Another four birds, championed by Phil Tufnell, Brian May, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Jeremy Vine are feared dead but not through long-lining.
It's a tragedy, really, as only a relatively minor change to long-lining techniques might have easily saved her life.
The locations have substantial populations of wandering albatrosses which are under threat through long-lining activities.
I began long-lining him and bitting him up, teaching him that there was more to life than galloping in a straight line.
It's a tragedy really as only a minor change to long-lining techniques might easily have saved her life.

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