Gillnet

Word GILLNET
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Definitions and meanings of "Gillnet"

What do we mean by gillnet?

To catch (fish) by means of a gill net. transitive verb

A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills noun

To fish using a gillnet verb

A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills.

Brightly colored, nylon fencing. used by ski resorts to slow skier and snowboarder traffic. Usually orange, gillnetting is placed on ski trails to direct skiers and snowboarder traffic flow as well as establishing slow skiing zones. Urban Dictionary

Going to the bar and snagging any chick that gets caught in the line. Once they're snagged in the line, there is no throwing back. Urban Dictionary

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The word "gillnet" in example sentences

Specifically, I am writing to ask you to forgive debt owed to the state, or any state banks such as CFAB, on all Prince William Sound herring seine and gillnet permits that were impacted by the Exxon Valdez oil spill -- or, at a minimum, to identify and work with the hardship cases to prevent further forced bankruptcies, home or business losses, or even more suicides over spill-related debt and stress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Herring seine and gillnet permits are not selling and trending downward in value but upward in debt from unpaid loans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The book Unnatural History of the Sea cites a study of deep sea fishing in the North Atlantic. "3,600 to 5,400 miles of gillnet are in constant contact with the bottom there," author Callum Roberts writes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the 1950s Russian fishers developed a gillnet fishery in offshore waters in the Norwegian Sea, and in the early 1960s purse seiners started using echo sounding equipment to locate herring. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your mission -- should you decide to accept it -- is to find out whether a "set gillnet" has been used in the fish's capture, or if the hirame (one type of halibut) is from the Atlantic (avoid) or Pacific (just fine). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1993, while she was a member of the Wasilla city council, Palin was busted for using a drift gillnet to harvest salmon in Bristol Bay without an annual permit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since 2002 alone, 64 dolphins, whales, seals and sea lions have been killed by the drift gillnet fishery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The proposed exemption would allow as many as two thirds of the remaining 36 vessels in the drift gillnet fishery into the closed areas. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Since 2001, areas north of Point Conception to an intersect with the Oregon coast has been closed to drift gillnet fishing from August 15th through November 15th in order to protect endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider re-opening an area to the drift gillnet fishery Thursday in a discussion of Highly Migratory Species Management. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This fishery which targets swordfish with drift gillnet gear, has had no recorded takes of leatherback sea turtles during the past three years. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A total of 43 rights were allocated, six in the beach seine fishery and 37 in the small nets (gillnet) fishery. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Several weeks before the first day of spearfishing season—which preceded all other forms of fishing in the state and was limited to Native Americans—Russell Blackwater, speaking on behalf of the Iron Lake band of Ojibwe, declared that The People intended, for the first time in over one hundred years, to spearfish and gillnet all of Iron Lake and its tributaries, not just that portion within reservation boundaries. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2001)

Cork had been sheriff then and charged with the duty of ensuring the safety of those Ojibwe who chose to gillnet and spearfish. ❋ WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER (2001)

Others go for the fish, by purse seine or gillnet. ❋ Stabenow, Dana (1998)

G - (hook) croc en G gancho en G gillnet filet maillant red de enmalle grassrope bourrelet de coco relinga de bonote ❋ Unknown (1983)

Two young fellows stretched a gillnet across the mouth of the creek. ❋ Unknown (1904)

That move devastated the local native economy, and shifted the catch to the commercial gillnet fleet in the ocean at the river mouth. ❋ MARK HUME (2011)

The ski patrol [set out] gillnet at the bottom of the Cramner Ski Run at [Winter Park], Colorado to slow down [the skier] trafic. ❋ The Snow Prophet (2010)

"wheres [bj]?" "bro, hes at [the bar] gillnetting [some pussy]." ❋ Some Dude In Alaska (2009)

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