drift net 
noun
A large net for herring and similar fish, kept upright by weights at the bottom and floats at the top and allowed to drift with the tide.Acting like a huge drift net and manoeuvred on the basis of intelligence, these ‘wolf-packs' covered a wide area of open ocean....
- Yes, there are other contributing factors such as global warming, pollution, predation and angling, but the single largest impactor is the drift net.
- The great white shark was caught in a drift net - a highly controversial means of fishing - off Santa Barbara in California.
Derivatives
drift netter
- In your November edition you carried a story and an editorial about drift netting and the campaign by Stop Now to have drift netters compensated to exit the sector.
- ‘Anglers are being pressured and forced into enduring the pain so that commercial drift netters, who are decimating the stocks, can gain,’ Mr Behal said.
- Still, for California drift netters, who often fish 200 miles offshore, installing pingers at sea can be perilous and time-consuming.
drift netting
- They want an end to mix stock fishery, which will in effect be an end to drift netting at sea.
- The EU Commission put together a package back in 1998 to compensate the eighteen vessel owners and their crews for their losses when the EU Commission introduced regulations banning tuna fishing by drift netting.
- We cannot allow the drift netting to continue while our angling tourism industry collapses around us.