Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of set netting.
Alaska has many salmon fisheries — seining, drift gillnetting, trolling, beach seining, and setnetting are the common ways to fish salmon.
2003, Jack Ranweiler, For the Love of Fishing, →ISBN, page 1732 more examples
At the public meetings a range of management options were discussed, ranging from the 'do nothing' option through to a complete ban on setnetting within the proposed marine sanctuary.
1989, David A. Norton, Management of New Zealand's natural estate, page 113But he was sick of setnetting, so we talked about it and that year he traded his setnet permit for a seine boat and permit, an even-up trade.
1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of setnet
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