driftnet

driftnet
To fish using a drift net

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  • driftnet — drift|net [ˈdrıftnet] n a large fishing net that floats behind a boat …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • driftnet — /ˈdrɪftnɛt/ (say driftnet) noun a fine mesh fishing net, weighted at the bottom, and supported with floats at the top, which drifts with the tide or current; banned by some countries because of the hazard they present to dolphins, sea turtles,… …  

  • driftnet — A gillnet suspended by floats so that it fishes the top few metres of the water column …   Fisheries — dictionary

  • driftnet — drift net n. A large fishing net buoyed up by floats that is carried along with the current or tide. * * * …   Universalium

  • driftnet — n. extremely large fishing net that drifts in the water and is used for large scale commercial fishing …   English contemporary dictionary

  • driftnet — noun (C) a large net behind a boat, used to catch fish …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • DNMSP — driftnet monitoring support program …   Military dictionary

  • Drift netting — Drift netting. Drift netting is a fishing technique where nets, called drift nets, are allowed to float freely at the surface of a sea or lake. Usually a drift net is a gill net with floats attached to a rope along the top of the net, and weights …   Wikipedia

  • Electric beacon — Electric beacons are a kind of beacon used with direction finding equipment to find ones relative bearing to a known location (the beacon).The term electric beacon includes radio, infrared and sonar beacons. Radio beacons A radio beacon is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Cetacean bycatch — Group of Fraser s dolphins. Cetacean bycatch is the incidental capture of non target cetacean species by fisheries.[1] Species which are seriously affected by this include dolphins, porpoises, and …   Wikipedia

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