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- verb Present participle of
gillnet .
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Examples
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I beg Uncle Aarno to take me out gillnetting with him.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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I beg Uncle Aarno to take me out gillnetting with him.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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Like about the time he was out gillnetting and got stuck in a bad storm.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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Like about the time he was out gillnetting and got stuck in a bad storm.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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The spread of commercial gillnetting in the lake is no longer controlled and recently poachers have also been reported to be overexploiting the resources of False Bay.
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Fishing is by trawling and hand lining, with very little gillnetting.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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There's a glossary to explain fishing terms like gillnetting, pelagic trawling and hydraulic dredging and all seafood is color-coded as "best choice" (green), "good alternative" (yellow) or "avoid" (red).
Forbes.com: News Lindsey Hoshaw 2011
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Unfair and untrue propaganda has made gillnetting out to be bad for our environment.
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Unfair and untrue propaganda has made gillnetting out to be bad for our environment.
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Unfair and untrue propaganda has made gillnetting out to be bad for our environment.
chained_bear commented on the word gillnetting
"In the decades since the French had introduced longlining, this technique had become widely used in Canadian fisheries. Joncas now argued in favor of gillnetting because it did not require the great quantity of bait needed for longlining...."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 124
See also gill net, bultow.
July 16, 2009