Usually means: Fishing nets dragged by boats.
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  1. trawls: Merriam-Webster
  2. trawls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trawls: Vocabulary.com
  4. Trawls, trawls: Wordnik
  5. trawls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. trawls: Wiktionary
  7. trawls: Dictionary.com
  8. trawls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. trawls: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trawls: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

(Note: See trawl as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (trawl)

noun:  A net or dragnet used for trawling.
noun:  A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
verb:  (intransitive) To fish from a slow-moving boat.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
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