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dip net

1

noun

  1. a net or mesh bag on a long handle, used to scoop fish from water.


dip-net

2

[ dip-net ]

verb (used with object)

dip-netted, dip-netting.
  1. to scoop (fish) from water with a dip net.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dip net1

First recorded in 1855–60
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The fire broke out shortly before 11 p.m. on Wednesday at The Dip Net restaurant in Port Clyde, Maine, and spread quickly, said Michael Smith, the chief of the fire department in St. George, the town that includes Port Clyde.

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Kiona has fished for Chinook salmon for decades on his family’s scaffold at the edge of the falls, using a dip net suspended from a 33-foot pole.

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She feels with her toes for hard shells and retrieves them with a dip net.

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But more important, at least when the salmon migrate, he is one of a shrinking group known as traditional dip net fishermen.

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Karuk tribal citizen Aaron Troy Hockaday Sr. used to fish for salmon at a local waterfall with a traditional dip net.

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