set netting (uncountable)
- The practice of fishing with a set net.
2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer, →ISBN, pages 15–16:Unlike drifting, set netting is done in a small skiff, not unlike a Boston Whaler, usually between fifteen and twenty feet in length.
2008, Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel, Prue Taylor, Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges, Successes, →ISBN:The main human-induced threat to Hector's and Maui's dolphins is set netting, followed by trawling.
2012, Erich Hoyt, Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, →ISBN:Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, among other groups, is proposing the creation of a marine park as well as extension of the fishing bans on set netting to include trawlers.
set netting
- present participle and gerund of set net