How to Use gill net in a Sentence

gill net

noun
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  • The essentials of the gill net fishery haven’t changed all that much over the decades.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Poachers use gill nets to catch the fish, which can grown more than six feet long and weigh more than 200 pounds.
    — National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2016
  • For about 10 days in June, a contractor will drag the lake’s waters with a gill net and pull up lake trout.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Spring gill net surveys showed a more widespread downturn for the species.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • There’s ice fishing in late fall, and gill net fishing for salmon in summer.
    — As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Snagged gill nets near a torn railing on the ship’s fantail stern looked like the work of a fisher who tried and failed to retrieve their gear.
    — Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Back then, fishermen set hundreds of miles of gill nets and thousands of trap nets in Lake Erie.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Since then, at least one vaquita has died in a gill net, according to advocates.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • In high-traffic areas, boaters have the tendency to cut their buoys, which can be attached to gill nets or lobster traps.
    — Melanie Bencosme, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Australia Australia will phase out gill net fishing in the Great Barrier Reef by 2027.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The biggest problem for the dolphins has been entanglement in gill nets, causing them to drown.
    — Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • The fall gill net sampling season begins in mid-September.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The daily bag limit is 30, and it’s been a long time that anyone without a commercial gill net has limited out.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2020
  • Experts will know more as gill net sampling and angler creel surveys get underway this spring.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The drift gill net fishery for swordfish began off the coast of Southern California in the late 1970s and quickly grew into one of the major commercial fleets in the state.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Books on wild edibles and medicinal plants are good to have, as are manuals about how to make a bow and arrow, how to trap or set a gill net, and books about wilderness first-aid.
    — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Sea turtles are often caught as bycatch by vessels that use gill nets to haul in swordfish off the coasts of California and Oregon.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • In addition to limits on the crab season, the state is also phasing out the use of what are called drift gill net fishing gear used for swordfish fishery that can kill turtles.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Experts say that gill nets have to be permanently banned in the area if there is any hope for the vaquita and the totoaba — itself an endangered fish — are to survive.
    — Mark Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Three years later, the state banned gill nets, which were notorious for snaring the jagged rostroms of juvenile sawfish.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • But because that gear catches fewer fish, many of the state’s remaining 30-odd drift gill net fishermen could just opt out of fishing swordfish.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2021
  • 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.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets meant for shrimp and totoabas, a fish whose swim bladder is a delicacy in China.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The Department of Natural Resources is evaluating a proposal for a study of large-mesh gill nets to target lake whitefish in Zone 3.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2018
  • State officials suspect someone caught the shark pups in a gill net, then illegally dumped the bodies on land, according to the publication.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 27 June 2018
  • Researchers used daily gill net catch data on Chinook salmon returning to the Fraser River from the Albion test fishery at the mouth of the river to measure relative salmon abundance.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Freshwater gill net surveys are generally performed every four years but may be more frequent on high-profile lakes.
    — Dallas News, 8 May 2021
  • Southern flounder have suffered a precipitous, long-term decline for decades, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department data such as seine bag and gill net surveys.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The water quality improvement along with a gill net ban has contributed to the recovery of several fish species including striped mullet, red drum and spotted sea trout.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • 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.
    — Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017

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