gill-net

When a large fish is meshed in a gill-net, the floats by their agitation advertise the fact.

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Leatherback turtle populations are especially at risk in the Eastern Pacific; conservative estimates are that long-line and gill-net fisheries were responsible for the mortality of at least 1,500 female leatherbacks per year in the Pacific during the 1990s.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being 2008

Well c'mon, the entire place is one huge gill-net.

Rick Overton: If It Floats... 2008

A trawler arrested for several days this month after an illegal gill-net net was apparently found aboard her has in the past legally off-loaded catches at Spanish ports, Division of Sea

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Meanwhile very few salmon reach the spawning grounds, and probably four years hence the fisheries will amount to nothing; and this comes from a struggle between the associated, or gill-net, fishermen on the one hand, and the owners of the fishing wheels up the river.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

On the inner parts of this ground, particularly, the gill-net fleet operates extensively, mainly in the full and spring, on northwest

Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

Formerly this fishery was almost entirely carried on by trawlers and hand-liners, but the gill-net fishery on these grounds is of great and steadily growing importance.

Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

The fishing is by hand line, trawl, and gill netting, with a lessening use of the hand line and an increase in the use of this ground by the gill-net fleet.

Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

There would be a few more gill-net licenses issued.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

While the coho and the humpback, which came about the same time, and the dog salmon, which comes last of all -- but each to function in the same manner and sequence -- laid in the salt-water bays, resting, it would seem, before the last and most terrible struggle of their brief existence, the gill-net fishermen and the cannery purse-seine boats took toll of them.

Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926