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Recent Examples of gillnetter
Snooks Moore comes from a long line of commercial Cook Inlet fishers and is herself a sixth-generation gillnetter.
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Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
The catch there this year calls for 19,000 kings and 942,000 sockeye salmon targeted by a fleet of more than 500 drift gillnetters.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
—Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
Commercial trawlers, seiners and gillnetters sometimes catch them off the southern coasts of California, north to the Bering Sea and in waters off Japan.
—Author: Kyle Clayton, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
Could the state reduce the number of commercial setnet salmon fishermen in Cook Inlet, possibly leaving more fish for dipnetters, commercial gillnetters and sportfishermen?
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
That averaged out to $74,000 for drift gillnetters, $54,000 for setnetters and $313,500 for seiners.
—Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Oct. 2017
Think trawlers, gillnetters, purse seiners, longliners and pots.
—Port Of Seattle, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
The catch there this year calls for 19,000 kings and 942,000 sockeye salmon targeted by a fleet of more than 500 drift gillnetters.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.
—Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
Commercial trawlers, seiners and gillnetters sometimes catch them off the southern coasts of California, north to the Bering Sea and in waters off Japan.
—Author: Kyle Clayton, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
Could the state reduce the number of commercial setnet salmon fishermen in Cook Inlet, possibly leaving more fish for dipnetters, commercial gillnetters and sportfishermen?
—Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
That averaged out to $74,000 for drift gillnetters, $54,000 for setnetters and $313,500 for seiners.
—Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 Oct. 2017
Think trawlers, gillnetters, purse seiners, longliners and pots.
—Port Of Seattle, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gillnetter
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On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.—
Dorothy Wickenden,
The New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2023
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When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.—
Nancy Lord,
Anchorage Daily News,
12 Nov. 2022
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Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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So far, Alabama and Louisiana are leading the charge to stamp out the misrepresentation and protect the bottom line of local shrimpers.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has dwindled their population, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Jan. 2025
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The same week that Musk’s teams at DOGE were threatening to lay off tens of thousands of federal workers, bankers who loaned him billions of dollars to buy Twitter were bracing for losses and trying to unload the loans on others.—
Bernard Condon,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The idea that some bankers from Goldman and Bank of America will go into the guts of some of Europe's largest institutional space companies and emerge with a lean, competitive entity seems far-fetched, to put it mildly, Ars reports.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
7 Feb. 2025
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Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
3 May 2023
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Oct. 2023
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Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.—
David James,
Anchorage Daily News,
22 Apr. 2023
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The vessel has been identified as the F/V Leonardo, a scalloper homeported in New Bedford.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Nov. 2019
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David Frulla, a lawyer who represents the Fisheries Survival Fund, said his scalloper clients would still consider this large section of water to be closed off to them under the new plan, for safety reasons.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
20 Nov. 2019
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Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.—
Jeff Martini,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2011
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