gillnet

[gil-net]

verb (used with object)

gillnetted, gillnetting 

1. to catch (a fish) with a gill net.

Example Sentences

In October 2022, a British American couple encountered a Sri Lankan gillnet boat in the bank.

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Gillnet fishing for wild totoaba is illegal and one of the leading killers of critically endangered vaquita porpoise, of which recent surveys suggest less than a dozen may exist in the wild.

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Catching her food was "so rewarding and validating of my skills. I was like, I can do something really valuable here. So for me my gillnet was my saviour".

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She also used her supply of paracord rope to create a gillnet to catch fish, a technique she had practised but never used in the UK as the nets are restricted.

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The IWC said the species was not irretrievably doomed — so long as gillnet bans were properly enforced.

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