drag nets
Bottom-scraping fish catchers
Drag nets are large fishing nets drawn through water or along the bottom to catch fish.
The term extends to systematic police operations that sweep an area to catch criminals or suspects: The dragnet caught several wanted felons.
Usually spelled as one word: dragnet.
- trawlDrag net for fish
- seineVertical hanging fish net
- fishingCatching aquatic creatures
- bottom trawlingSeafloor net fishing
- sweepBrush clean with broom
haul · catch · police · search · search party · ocean · bottom · mesh · boats · raid · manhunt · scoop · capture · roundup · operation · coastguard · harbor · ropes
- fishing industrycommercial fishing, fishing fleet, fishing vessels, fishing ports, fishing port
- traditional fishingfish hooks, fish traps, spearfishing, gillnetting, harpoon
- cast netsseine, gillnets, mesh, floats, sinkers
- harmful fishingdynamite fishing, overfishing, poaching, bottom trawling, shark finning
- trawlingtrawlers, bottom trawling, shrimp trawling, footrope, headline
- trappingtraps, trap, snare, snares, trappers
selectivity
drag netssurgical strikes
Targeted attacks minimizing collateral
surgical strike · precision targeting · spearfishing · hand-picking · line fishing
fishing method
drag netsspearfishing
Aquatic hunting with sharp poles
hook and line · angling · fly fishing · rod and reel · fish traps