drift net

NOUN
  1. a large fishnet supported by floats; it drifts with the current
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How To Use drift net In A Sentence

  • In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.
  • Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.
  • He is concerned that molas comprise an ‘alarmingly’ large portion of the eastern Pacific drift net fishery by-catch.
  • He is one of 90 California fishermen who must use pingers when deploying drift nets for swordfish and thresher shark.
  • Thys is concerned that molas comprise an ‘alarmingly’ large portion of the eastern Pacific drift net fishery by-catch, and that population numbers in the western Pacific are declining.
  • Angling organisations have for years forecast serious threats to salmon stocks and now are calling on the Government to reduce the quota given to drift net fishermen or to buy them out completely.
  • And it is hoped that, once the current objective has been achieved, it will create the necessary political pressure for the Irish government to take steps to phase out their own drift net fishery.
  • As the autumn floods encourage the salmon to the spawning redds in the river heads, the Government has again given the thumbs down to any plan for a buy out of the drift net fishers.
  • He rejected claims by environmentalists that drift nets led to overfishing.
  • Tom Fitzgerald said fish landings were down on the previous year because of the ban on tuna drift net fishing and severe restrictions on quotas of other species.
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