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Scoop net

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a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.

See also: Scoop



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The annual eel migration, which generated a short-term trade and fights on the bank as rival net fishermen sought to win a stance from which to wield their scoop nets, has also reduced as the eels have failed to make passage across the Atlantic from the Sargasso Sea.
Juvenile yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata, are collected by Japanese fishermen by surrounding drift algae with a small scoop net.
They employed its slender branches to construct scoop nets for taking salmon.
 
 
 
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