Drift net - meaning and illustration

drift net means a gill net that drifts in the water, whether or not it is attached to a vessel, and includes a gill net that is not anchored at both ends; (filet dérivant)

✏️ Source -- Canada Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations, Section 2 ( Canada Maritime Provinces Fishery Regulations )

"driftnet" means a net laid out in the sea or river with or without markers or floats or both designed or intended, whilst drifting in the prevailing current or tide, to entangle fish;

✏️ Source -- Ghana Fisheries Act, 2002, Part VI, Section 140 ( Ghana Fisheries Act, 2002 )

‘‘driftnet’’means a gillnet or other net or a combination of nets, the purpose of which is to enmesh, entrap or entangle fish by drifting on the surface of or in the water, irrespective of whether it is used or intended to be used while attached to any point of land or the seabed or to any vessel; (vii)

✏️ Source -- South Africa Marine Living Resources Act, 1998, Section 1, Paragraph x ( South Africa Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 )

“driftnet” means any net which is not anchored to the sea bottom but left in a drifting position in the water for the purpose of ensnaring fish therein;

✏️ Source -- South Africa Regulations in the Terms of the Sea Fishery Act 1988, Section 1, Sub-section xi ( South Africa Regulations in the Terms of the Sea Fishery Act 1988 )