gillnet
Americanverb (used with object)
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Experts say its survival depends on swift international cooperation to eliminate gillnet fishing within its habitat and prevent the disappearance of one of the ocean's most critically endangered species.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
In October 2022, a British American couple encountered a Sri Lankan gillnet boat in the bank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
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.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
The activist group Sea Shepherd, which has joined the Mexican Navy in patrols to deter the fishermen and to help destroy gillnets, says the efforts have reduced the gillnet fishing.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
Now 61 and living in Palmer, Alaska, Harry skippers a drift gillnet boat during the Bristol Bay harvest, where this summer he had his best yet.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
While no gillnetting was observed within the zero-tolerance area during the survey, it was regularly seen just northwest, where vaquitas were also spotted.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Reef netting differs from other fishing methods – gillnetting, beach seining and purse seining — in that the boats and net are stationary; they’re tethered to the sea bottom with minimal anchors.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Afterward, Lummi fisherman turned to seining, or gillnetting.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Sanfilippo moved smoothly through an introduction that touched on the various types of trawling - pair, midwater, purse seine, otter and gillnetting - and the basic terminology of net mending.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
Fishing is by trawling and hand lining, with very little gillnetting.
From Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine by Walter H. Rich
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