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unusual facts about Fishing net


Cherax quinquecarinatus

Family groups (moieties) would establish temporary claim to territory and lay fishtraps and use scoops to gather marron and jilgi.


Bledlow railway station

A single siding equipped with a 2 ton yard crane handled goods traffic which consisted of watercress and English elm boles for trawling nets made locally in Longwick.

Net gun

In "Birds in a Truck", an episode of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters, Jamie Hyneman constructs a jury-rigged net gun using PVC, an air tank, a fishing net, and some tennis balls in an attempt to capture pigeons.


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Alligator gar

In January 2008, a 3-kg alligator gar was found by fishermen in Bera, Pahang, Malaysia, when it was entangled in a fishing net.

Long-billed Murrelet

The first found in Europe was a first-winter individual discovered drowned in a fishing net at Zollikon, Lake Zurich, Switzerland on a date between 15 and 18 December 1997.