sternpicker
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sternpicker (plural sternpickers)
- A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.
- 1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146:
- The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work.
- 2008, Bert Bender, Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet, →ISBN, page 145:
- Word got around that it had won the Columbia River fishing boat race, as a bowpicker, before being rebuilt as a sternpicker for the Inlet fishery.
- 2012, Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place, →ISBN:
- As the fishery evolved, the practical and beautiful butterfly fleet—dories named for their widespread sails—gave way to more prosaic but still handsome diesel sternpickers and bowpickers.