driftnet 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. Under the collective term of Ferrettara different traditional driftnet fisheries were classified using mesh sizes smaller than # millimetres (mm) and, therefore, not targeting swordfish or albacore