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DREDGING [2 records]

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Record 1 2022-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Aquaculture
DEF

A fishing method that uses a dredge on the sea floor to harvest wild or cultured molluscs.

PHR

scallop dredging

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Méthode de pêche qui utilise une drague sur le fond de la mer pour la récolte de mollusques sauvages ou de mollusques d'élevage.

PHR

dragage des huîtres

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dredging
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

Excavation, below water level, with a dredge, for obtaining resources or for deepening streams, swamps, or coastal waters by scraping and removing solids from the bottom.

CONT

Dredging is the removal of bottom sediments from an area in a watercourse and the disposal of the dredged material to another zone in the watercourse or to a disposal area on land.

OBS

drag: To pull a grapnel, net, etc. over the bottom of (a river, lake, etc.) in searching for something; dredge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dragage
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Action de racler le fond d'une zone immergée pour extraire des matériaux.

CONT

Le dragage sert à augmenter la profondeur d'un cours d'eau, à creuser des tranchées ou le lit d'un futur canal. [...] (Il peut être réalisé à des fins scientifiques (analyse géologique), technologiques (exploitation des ressources vivantes ou minérales) ou nautiques (amélioration des conditions de navigation).

CONT

[Le] dragage consiste à curer le fond d'une partie d'un cours d'eau et à évacuer ces boues dans une autre partie du cours d'eau ou encore à les déverser sur un terrain.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Dragado
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Cualquier forma de excavación o limpieza bajo el agua.

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