Definition of Gillnet. Meaning of Gillnet. Synonyms of Gillnet

- Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line...
- Red List; the steep decline in abundance is primarily due to bycatch in gillnets from the illegal totoaba fishery. The vaquita was defined as a species...
- seines and Danish seines. A seine differs from a gillnet, in that a seine encloses fish, where a gillnet directly snares fish. The word seine has its origins...
- Canada, and Alaska still commonly use gillnets in their fisheries for salmon and steelhead. Both drift gillnets and setnets also have been widely adapted...
- products derived from the family Molidae. Sunfish are frequently caught in gillnets. Its common English name, sunfish, refers to the animal's habit of sunbathing...
- bycatch is increasing. Most of the world's cetacean bycatch occurs in gillnet fisheries. The mean annual bycatch in the U.S. alone from 1990 to 1999...
- farmed. Large numbers of sea turtles are accidentally killed in longlines, gillnets, and trawling nets as bycatch. A 2010 study suggested that over 8 million...
- (the tiny remaining po****tion is rapidly declining because of bycatch in gillnets), there have been attempts of transferring some to captivity. The first...
- One is fishing by nets, such as purse seine, beach seine, lift nets, gillnets, or entangling nets. Another is trawling, including bottom trawl. Hooks...
- introduced ****anese nylon gillnets which proved more effective in the fishery than the cotton, hemp and flax gillnets. Nylon gillnets gave higher catchability...