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gill net

NOUN
  1. a flat fishnet suspended vertically in the water to entangle fish by their gills

How To Use gill net In A Sentence

  • They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine. AMAGANSETT
  • Other fishing methods include lining , gill netting and purse - seining.
  • Fishermen use weirs, traps, gill nets, and dip nets for alewives, which they consider one of the easiest fish to catch.
  • A hammerhead shark is fatally caught in a gill net in Mexico's Gulf of California.
  • We also know that many species are caught in phenomenally large numbers by fishing them, typically as by-catch from longline fishing worldwide, but also from trawls and gill net, than any other kinds of fishery.
  • Seines at least collected less mud and debris than weirs and staked gill nets.
  • Caught in a gill net in the Gulf of California, this thresher shark is among the estimated 100m sharks killed annually for their fins.
  • A new report reveals that Tanzania's population of dugongs is on the verge of collapse as a result of accidental entanglement in gill nets.
  • Bat rays are often caught in trawling and gill nets as unwanted by-catch.
  • They consider large gill nets and lampara seines to be ‘predatory’ techniques because fish have little chance to escape and because they take both juveniles and adults.
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