setnetter

plural setnetters

1. alternativeAlternative form of set netter.

   I had never dug a hole before becoming a setnetter.

   2016, Nancy Lord, Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project, →ISBN, page 58

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   Actually when we first met, in 1985, I was a seiner and he was a setnetter.

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

   Later on in summer 2013w, a group representing setnetters sued the Department of Fish and Game seeking additional fishing time, a demand that turned out to be moot as Kenai River king salmon again showed up in low numbers and late in the season, leading to the July 28 closure ofboththe sport and commercial setnet harvest of king salmon.

   2014, Andrew Jensen, Case For Conserving the Kenai King Salmon, →ISBN