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  • verb Present participle of driftnet.

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Examples

  • A certain development toward offshore fishing took place at the end of the 19th century when cod were caught on the Svalbard banks and driftnetting of herring began off northern Iceland.

    Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas) 2009

  • A trio of teenettes, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, driftnetting the width of the pavement.

    A Set Of Russian Dolls Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Destructive fishing practices—trawling, longlining, driftnetting—have depleted not only targeted species, but also devastated diverse ocean ecosystems and killed millions of sea birds, marine mammals, turtles and countless other creatures as throwaway “bycatch.”

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • Destructive fishing practices—trawling, longlining, driftnetting—have depleted not only targeted species, but also devastated diverse ocean ecosystems and killed millions of sea birds, marine mammals, turtles and countless other creatures as throwaway “bycatch.”

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • A trio of teenettes, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, driftnetting the width of the pavement.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Trawling, driftnetting, longlining and purse seining are common fishing methods used by the thousands of vessels that set out onto the Mediterranean Sea every day.

    Red Pepper Wietse van der Werf 2010

  • Bans on driftnetting have helped, catch limits have helped somewhat more.

    Coyote Crossing 2009

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