trawl

“It seems remarkable that the Thai government permitted its fishing fleet to commence trawl fishing,” the organization said in its final report.

It also said the OfS had failed to respond to the university's requests to engage with its staff in person, with Prof Roseneil describing the investigation as a "trawl of documents".

The committee cast a wide net, using a programming tool to trawl more than 32,000 project descriptions for 699 keywords and phrases that they identified as linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

"But most of the time it's people anchoring where they shouldn't and fishing trawlers sometimes scrape along the seabed, so typically we would see scars from trawling."

A dozen or so staff are trawling so-called open source data – social media and the like – for intelligence of plots emerging.