Dredge means a mechanical device that is towed behind a fishing vessel and whose purpose is to collect shellfish from the sea floor.
Dredge means equipment used for harvesting bottom dwelling aquatic life which is not a trawl and is powered by mechanical means, and is designed to contact the bottom when in operation.
Dredge means to mine with an underwater suction machine.
Examples of Dredge in a sentence
Dredge disposal (for restoration only) shall occur in a manner that avoids or minimizes significant shoreline or ecosystem impacts; impacts that cannot be avoided shall be mitigated in a manner that results in no net loss of shoreline functions or existing uses.
More Definitions of Dredge
Dredge means a subsurface hose from one and one- half to ten inches in diameter that is powered by an engine and is used to draw up auriferous material that is then sepa- rated in the sluice portion of the unit.
Dredge means to use any device to gather, scrape, scoop, fish for or otherwise take bottom dwelling horseshoe crabs.
Dredge means to clean, deepen, widen or excavate, either temporarily or permanently.
Dredge means any floating vessel used for —
Dredge means a rigid structure towed on the seabed in order to collect a targeted species;
Dredge means to cleanse, scour, cut, deepen, widen or dredge the bed or the banks of the Thames or take up, or move material (including through the use of conventional dredgers and hydrodynamic dredging techniques using water injection or agitation or devices to move material) whether or not the material is suspended in water from one part of the bed or the banks of the Thames to another part or remove material from the bed or the banks of the Thames, and “dredging” shall be construed accordingly;
Dredge means a subsurface hose from 1.5 to 10 inches in diameter that is powered by an engine and is used to draw up auriferous material that is then separated in the sluice portion of the unit.