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a type of fishing boat designed to catch herrings in a long drift net.

  • 1.Until the mid-1960s fishing fleets in the North Sea comprised drifters and trawlers, with the drifters primarily targeting herring while the trawlers caught cod, plaice, skate and haddock, etc.

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