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dragger † Atlantic Coast 
n. See 1963 quote.
- 1954 Moreover, the turnover of personnel on some of the industry's largest draggers . . . placed added curbs on the output of frozen groundfish.
- 1961 . . . Mrs. Alfred Anderson tuned in her radio and heard two dragger skippers talking about the storm.
- 1963 The dragger was introduced to provincial fishermen in 1947. It is a pocket edition of the trawler (under 100 feet long) which tows a conical net along the seat bottom to harvest cod and other groundfish--haddock, pollock, plaice and so on.
- 1954 Moreover, the turnover of personnel on some of the industry's largest draggers . . . placed added curbs on the output of frozen groundfish.