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- 1. 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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Net used for fishing
A fishing net is a net used for fishing. Some fishing nets are also called fish traps, for example fyke nets. Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by knotting a relatively thin thread. Early nets were woven from grasses, flaxes and other fibrous plant material. Later cotton was used. Modern nets are usually made of artificial polyamides like nylon, although nets of organic polyamides such as woo... Wikipedia