setnetting

setnetting (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of set netting
   • 1989, David A. Norton, Management of New Zealand's natural estate, page 113:

     At the public meetings a range of management options were discussed, ranging from the 'do nothing' option through to a complete ban on setnetting within the proposed marine sanctuary.

   • 1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, →ISBN:

     But he was sick of setnetting, so we talked about it and that year he traded his setnet permit for a seine boat and permit, an even-up trade.

   • 2003, Jack Ranweiler, For the Love of Fishing, →ISBN, page 173:

     Alaska has many salmon fisheries — seining, drift gillnetting, trolling, beach seining, and setnetting are the common ways to fish salmon.

setnetting

1. present participle of setnet