Dredge definition
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 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 separated in the sluice portion of the unit.
Examples of Dredge in a sentence
Notwithstanding any determinations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or other federal agency made pursuant to 40 C.F.R. section 121.9, dischargers must comply with the entirety of this certification because this discharge is also regulated under State Water Board Order No. 2003-0017-DWQ, "General Waste Discharge Requirements for Dredge and Fill Discharges That Have Received State Water Quality Certification" which requires compliance with all conditions of this WQC.
More Definitions of Dredge
Dredge means to mine with an underwater suction machine.
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 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.
Dredge means a rigid structure towed on the seabed in order to collect a targeted species;
Dredge means any floating vessel used for —