How to Use gill net in a Sentence

gill net

noun
  • Spring gill net surveys showed a more widespread downturn for the species.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • There’s ice fishing in late fall, and gill net fishing for salmon in summer.
    — As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The essentials of the gill net fishery haven’t changed all that much over the decades.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • No one knew how deep into his digestive system the gill net might have gone.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • In every incident, most of the fish had already died in the gill nets.
    — Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Poachers use gill nets to catch the fish, which can grown more than six feet long and weigh more than 200 pounds.
    — National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Since then, at least one vaquita has died in a gill net, according to advocates.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Many sharks end up as bycatch when long lines and gill nets unintentionally catch them.
    — Amy Chillag, CNN, 28 June 2024
  • Experts will know more as gill net sampling and angler creel surveys get underway this spring.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Back then, fishermen set hundreds of miles of gill nets and thousands of trap nets in Lake Erie.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • For about 10 days in June, a contractor will drag the lake’s waters with a gill net and pull up lake trout.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In high-traffic areas, boaters have the tendency to cut their buoys, which can be attached to gill nets or lobster traps.
    — Melanie Bencosme, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Meanwhile, indiscriminate fishing tools such as gill nets ensnare and drown dugongs.
    — Danna Staaf, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The daily bag limit is 30, and it’s been a long time that anyone without a commercial gill net has limited out.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2020
  • Freshwater gill net surveys are generally performed every four years but may be more frequent on high-profile lakes.
    — Dallas News, 8 May 2021
  • California is currently acting on this issue by helping fishermen phase out use of large-mesh drift gill nets in state waters.
    — Heather Welch, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Books on wild edibles and medicinal plants are good to have, as are manuals about how to make a bow and arrow, how to trap or set a gill net, and books about wilderness first-aid.
    — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
  • In addition to limits on the crab season, the state is also phasing out the use of what are called drift gill net fishing gear used for swordfish fishery that can kill turtles.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets meant for shrimp and totoabas, a fish whose swim bladder is a delicacy in China.
    — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • 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.
    — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But because that gear catches fewer fish, many of the state’s remaining 30-odd drift gill net fishermen could just opt out of fishing swordfish.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 July 2021
  • Experts say that gill nets have to be permanently banned in the area if there is any hope for the vaquita and the totoaba — itself an endangered fish — are to survive.
    — Mark Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Sea turtles are often caught as bycatch by vessels that use gill nets to haul in swordfish off the coasts of California and Oregon.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • State officials suspect someone caught the shark pups in a gill net, then illegally dumped the bodies on land, according to the publication.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 27 June 2018
  • Australia Australia will phase out gill net fishing in the Great Barrier Reef by 2027.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
  • To combat the spread, KDWP has relied on a mix of electrofishing, gill nets and newer specialized equipment.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The canneries were supplied by commercial fishers, who used gill nets to entangle the turtles, setting the nets in and around passes and channels the turtles used to travel in the bays and move between bays and the ocean.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
  • In general, the number of white sharks have increased since they were protected in California in 1994, the same year gill nets were banned in near-coastal waters in the state.
    — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The Department of Natural Resources is evaluating a proposal for a study of large-mesh gill nets to target lake whitefish in Zone 3.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The drift gill net fishery for swordfish began off the coast of Southern California in the late 1970s and quickly grew into one of the major commercial fleets in the state.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021

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