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First Known Use of gillnet
1949
gill net
Definition of gill net
: a flat net suspended vertically in the water with meshes that allow the head of a fish to pass but entangle the gills upon withdrawal
Recent Examples of gill net from the Web
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A decade of rescue crusades by conservation groups, hard-core eco-activists and the U.S. Navy have failed to prevent the world’s rarest porpoise from becoming fatally entangled in gill nets set for seafood in Mexico’s northern Gulf of California.
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State officials suspect someone caught the shark pups in a gill net, then illegally dumped the bodies on land, according to the publication.
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The fishing village of San Felipe has embraced using gill nets to illegally capture the massive 120-pound fish and cut out their bladders, which when dried sell for as much as $30,000 in China.
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The canneries were supplied by commercial fishers, who used gill nets to entangle the turtles, setting the nets in and around passes and channels the turtles used to travel in the bays and move between bays and the ocean.
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In high-traffic areas, boaters have the tendency to cut their buoys, which can be attached to gill nets or lobster traps.
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The Department of Natural Resources is evaluating a proposal for a study of large-mesh gill nets to target lake whitefish in Zone 3.
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Poachers use gill nets to catch the fish, which can grown more than six feet long and weigh more than 200 pounds.
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The obvious step of ridding the gulf of gill nets requires a level of law enforcement that has apparently not been achieved, perhaps because of criminal influence on the totoaba trade.
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First Known Use of gill net
1796
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