gillnet

[ gil-net ]

verb (used with object)

, gill·net·ted, gill·net·ting.

1. to catch (a fish) with a gill net.

Example Sentences

Gillnet fishing for wild totoaba is illegal and one of the leading killers of critically endangered vaquita porpoise, of which recent surveys suggest less than a dozen may exist in the wild.

From Seattle Times

Catching her food was "so rewarding and validating of my skills. I was like, I can do something really valuable here. So for me my gillnet was my saviour".

From BBC

She also used her supply of paracord rope to create a gillnet to catch fish, a technique she had practised but never used in the UK as the nets are restricted.

From BBC

The IWC said the species was not irretrievably doomed — so long as gillnet bans were properly enforced.

From Washington Times

Beau Schooler, the executive chef at In Bocca al Lupo in Juneau, fishes on a gillnet boat in the summertime for salmon for the restaurant.

From Seattle Times