set netting
English
Noun
set netting (uncountable)
- The practice of fishing with a set net.
- 2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer, →ISBN, page 15-16:
- Unlike drifting, set netting is done in a small skiff, not unlike a Boston Whaler, usually between fifteen and twenty feet in length.
- 2008, Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel, & Prue Taylor, Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges, Successes, →ISBN:
- The main human-induced threat to Hector's and Maui's dolphins is set netting, followed by trawling.
- 2012, Erich Hoyt, Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, →ISBN:
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, among other groups, is proposing the creation of a marine park as well as extension of the fishing bans on set netting to include trawlers.
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Verb
set netting
- present participle of set net