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The southern horizon fills with setnetters, drift gillnetters, and seiners heading into the dangerous waters of the North Pacific, their sodium lights blazing as the midnight sun sets far to the north.
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"This project will ensure that resources are in place to help more than 350 vessel owners and their family members, gillnetters, deckhands and seafood processors."
Vp Announces Grant To Help Fishing Industry Workers ITY National Archives 1999
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One of the two poaching gillnetters was still being fended off by Mike's boat, every zig of the gillnetter being met by a zag from Mike's.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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"Some of them are rerigged gillnetters, some of them are purse seiners," she told him.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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The fishing is mainly by trawling, with the gillnetters operating on the shoal grounds in less than 50 fathoms.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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Both small boats and vessels, line trawlers, and gillnetters operate here.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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Advisory committee member Josh Graham of Vancouver said boat ramps get chaotic when the sport fleet is trying to launch and the gillnetters are trying to load 28- to 32-foot boats at the same time.
The Seattle Times 2012
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When some gillnetters are allowed on the water and they actually catch some fish, I buy it from a fish processor and sell it to my customers.
BlueOregon 2009
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The gillnetters know there are other ways, they just don't want to retool.
BlueOregon 2009
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--- No gillnetters means no wild harvesting of salmon on a consistent and large scale.
BlueOregon 2009
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