setnet

plural setnets

1. alternativeAlternative form of set net.

   In California, setnets are only allowed outside of three miles.

   2005, Essential Fish Habitat Designation and Minimization of Adverse Impacts

   2 more examples

   The large-scale setnet (Fig. 1) is the most important type of setnet and its construction is more complex than that of smaller nets.

   1980, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Fish Behavior and Its Use in the Capture and Culture of Fishes, →ISBN

   The most effective way of preventing loss and damage is to completely submerge the usual type of floating setnet so that it becomes a submerged or bottom setnet.

   2009, A.N. Shukla, Fishing Techniques, →ISBN, page 72

present singular third person setnets · participle present setnetting · participle past setnetted · past setnetted

1. alternativeAlternative form of set net.

   I'd never setnetted before, so we did a lot of things the hard way, the wrong way.

   1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   He had never setnetted before, but he was used to hard work and roughing it, and he was eager to learn.

   2003, Jack Ranweiler, For the Love of Fishing, →ISBN, page 179

   I learned early on that the reason Bob setnetted, the reason he made it his job, was because it allowed him to live here in Prince William Sound for months on end.

   2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN