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Bowpicker means A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat..
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/ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)/ · noun
A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat..
The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.
It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.
The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe.
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Bowpicker means A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat..
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The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.
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