A large piece of open-meshed material used for catching fish from a boat.
smaller fish are often caught in deep-sea fishing nets that are only after much bigger ones
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The car park was bustling with local dog walkers and some youngsters were off to the sea with spades and fishing nets.
It was a round hoop with a bit of fishing net stretched around it.
Assunto hauls in his fishing net from the banks of a reed-lined canal.
Thousands of porpoises, dolphins and whales are dying in European waters each year, due to entanglement in fishing nets.
The problem is mainly plastic waste from boats and ships, including lost or discarded nylon fishing nets.
Houses, boats and fishing nets were washed away.
Fishing nets strung across the walls lend a certain nautical theme.
He was sitting in front of his house, mending a fishing net.
Dolphins are most often trapped in fishing nets, but everywhere they suffer from some degree of pollution and, conservation experts fear, tourism is also taking its toll on the animal.
The Chinese fishing nets at Cochin remain amongst the most iconic images of Kerala.
A poster aims to instruct fishermen on how to handle live turtles that may be caught in their fishing nets.