单词 | reef net fishing |
释义 | > as lemmasreef net fishing reef net fishing n. a method of fishing in which obstacles designed to resemble underwater reefs are suspended from moored boats, so that fish aiming for the clearer water between them are guided into a net. ΚΠ 1897 Rep. Joint Comm. Preserv. Fisheries Waters Contiguous to Canada & U.S. 140 This line of traps practically parallels the northern margin of a large rectangular reef or patch of rocky bottom, on which the Indians have hitherto done the main part of their reef net fishing for sockeye. 1902 C. H. Townsend & H. M. Smith in D. Sage et al. Pacific Salmon 176 A peculiar method of taking salmon in salt water is practiced by the Indians of Washington and British Columbia, called reef-net fishing, in which a large square piece of netting is held between two canoes. 1917 Pacific Fisherman Yearbk. 60 Reef net fishing was confined to the flood tide. 1968 Ecology 49 1001/2 Experimental reef-net fishing in northern Puget Sound. < as lemmas |
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