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Recent Examples of gillnetter
Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.
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Anchorage Daily News,
12 Mar. 2022
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
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Richard Adams Carey,
WSJ,
25 Apr. 2018
That averaged out to $74,000 for drift gillnetters, $54,000 for setnetters and $313,500 for seiners.
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Laine Welch,
Alaska Dispatch News,
29 Oct. 2017
Anchorage Daily News,
12 Mar. 2022
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
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Richard Adams Carey,
WSJ,
25 Apr. 2018
That averaged out to $74,000 for drift gillnetters, $54,000 for setnetters and $313,500 for seiners.
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Laine Welch,
Alaska Dispatch News,
29 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gillnetter
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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.
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And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.
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For a shrimper already operating on slim margins, that's not just an inconvenience.
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Lousiana shrimper James Blanchard praises a surcharge on imports as a lifeline for the struggling U.S. industry.
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As the early morning breeze tickles the top of the Santa Monica Bay, three scientists pack into a small whaler boat and push out to sea in pursuit of great white sharks.
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Species include blue sharks, bull sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, bronze whaler sharsk, dusky sharks, hammerheads, tigers and spinner sharks.
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Too many banks still write job descriptions as if the next great banker must already be a banker.
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In November 2015, Mary-Kate quietly married French banker Olivier Sarkozy.
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This demand fuels industrial-scale fishing operations such as bottom trawlers and purse seiners, which sweep through vast areas of ocean indiscriminately.
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
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On Saturday, Bretal and Vega boarded a scalloper and embarked on a fishing trip that took a horrifying turn when their vessel apparently capsized and sank Sunday about 28 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, according to the US Coast Guard.
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The four men on the scalloper, which had left from New Bedford, Massachusetts, did not appear to be wearing life jackets, Noel said.
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But nearly a decade since the first city-run ferryboat set sail, the system has been working to win over skeptics.
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Crofton will be the only living person with a Disney ferryboat named after her.
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The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.
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One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
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“Gillnetter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gillnetter. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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