set-net

set-net (plural set-nets)

1. Alternative form of set net
   • 1901, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy, The Codes and Statutes of California:

     Any net, seine, drag-net, paranzella, or set-net used for taking or catching fish, which shall be used or maintained in any of the waters of this state in violation of any existing or hereafter enacted statutes or laws of this state for the protection of fish, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and it is the duty of every peace officer to seize and keep the same and report such seizure to the board of fish commissioners of the state.

   • 1965, Richard Grey Smith, A Geography of Contemporary Settlement on the Western Kenai:

     Because set-nets are fixed to the beach, a locational component enters and influences the settlement pattern of set-net fishermen.

   • 2002, Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed, Frances Dipper, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, →ISBN:

     As no set-nets or harpoon vessels operate between Hsinchu in the north-west and Pingtung in the south-west, there are no capture records for Taiwan's western coastal region except for the Penghu area.

set-net (third-person singular simple present set-nets, present participle set-netting, simple past and past participle set-netted)

1. Alternative form of set net
   • 2000, Mike Baughman, Charlotte Cook Hadella, Warm Springs millennium: voices from the reservation, page 150:

     I used to snag; I used to trap; I used to gill-net; I dipnetted, set-netted on scaffolds.

   • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 46:

     He was back from his freshman year of college and they were both working for his father, tending the dogs and the farm while Abel was out set-netting with old Sam Dementieff and Mary Balashoff on Alaganik Bay.

   • 2013, William B. McCloskey, Highliners: A Novel, →ISBN, page 56:

     They've set-netted off this point for all the years I've fished here, since before the war, and I expect they will until they die.

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