bowpicker

plural bowpickers

1. A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.

   It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.

   1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103

   2 more examples

   The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.

   1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146

   The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe.

   2006, Seabird Avoidance Measures for Small Alaskan Longline Vessels