set-netter

plural set-netters

1. alternativeAlternative form of set netter.

   Some set-netters can make millions per year, though the drift-netters (known as drifters) probably have a higher average income.

   1997, David Lebedoff, Cleaning Up, →ISBN, page 82

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   The set-netter or beach fisherman is one who, by preference or because of lack of financial backing, does his fishing from the beach, and, strangely enough, the preponderance of set-netters are women.

   1946, Carl Irving Wick, Ocean Harvest: The Story of Commercial Fishing in Pacific Coast Waters

   This is particularly important to set-netters because each license entitles the holder to certain limits of gear so that the head of a household may increase his gear by an amount proportional to the number of licenses he can command.

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