set-net

plural set-nets

1. alternativeAlternative form of set net.

   Because set-nets are fixed to the beach, a locational component enters and influences the settlement pattern of set-net fishermen.

   1965, Richard Grey Smith, A Geography of Contemporary Settlement on the Western Kenai

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   Any net, seine, drag-net, paranzella, or set-net used for taking or catching fish, which shall be used or maintained in any of the waters of this state in violation of any existing or hereafter enacted statutes or laws of this state for the protection of fish, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and it is the duty of every peace officer to seize and keep the same and report such seizure to the board of fish commissioners of the state.

   1901, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy, The Codes and Statutes of California

   As no set-nets or harpoon vessels operate between Hsinchu in the north-west and Pingtung in the south-west, there are no capture records for Taiwan's western coastal region except for the Penghu area.

   2002, Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed, Frances Dipper, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, →ISBN

present singular third person set-nets · participle present set-netting · participle past set-netted · past set-netted

1. alternativeAlternative form of set net.

   I used to snag; I used to trap; I used to gill-net; I dipnetted, set-netted on scaffolds.

   2000, Mike Baughman, Charlotte Cook Hadella, Warm Springs millennium: voices from the reservation, page 150

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   He was back from his freshman year of college and they were both working for his father, tending the dogs and the farm while Abel was out set-netting with old Sam Dementieff and Mary Balashoff on Alaganik Bay.

   2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 46

   They've set-netted off this point for all the years I've fished here, since before the war, and I expect they will until they die.

   2013, William B. McCloskey, Highliners: A Novel, →ISBN, page 56