drift net in English
noun
1
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.
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1. Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing
2. Does it consider measures should be agreed on among the Member States aimed at rationalising drift-net fishing?
3. According to ballasting and buoyancy these nets may be used to fish either in the water column up to the sea surface (anchored floating gillnet and drift-net) or close to the bottom (bottom-set gillnet);