How to Use gill net in a Sentence
gill net
noun-
No one knew how deep into his digestive system the gill net might have gone.
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Jessica Camille Aguirre,
New Yorker,
2 May 2026
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The split second the clock turns to the opening hour, buoys from every ship are tossed in the water and the 250-fathom deep gill net is cranked out by the deckhands.
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Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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To combat the spread, KDWP has relied on a mix of electrofishing, gill nets and newer specialized equipment.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
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Historically, local shrimp fishers accidentally caught the small porpoises in gill nets, inadvertently killing them.
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Ryan Green,
Scientific American,
6 Nov. 2025
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To confront vaquita declines, in 2019 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species established an agreement to help eliminate supply and demand for totoabas and help remove gill nets from the upper Gulf of California.
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Ryan Green,
Scientific American,
6 Nov. 2025
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