When fishing from land, each fisherman is limited to two hoop nets.

It is widely caught for its meat, with over 6,500 t being caught annually in lobster pots and hoop nets.

They numbered a score, led by Vanimen, naked save for knife belts but carrying fish spears and hooped nets.

Fisherman, though in most cases not purposely, can kill turtles via their trotlines, gill nets, and hoop nets.

The fights, which often occurred at night, were attended by a multitude of boats with fishermen armed with eight-foot wide hoop nets and searchlights.

The engine revved and he leaned out to scoop up the fish with a hooped net on a long pole, pivoting sinuously to drop the catch in the stern at the feet of his son, Trinilob.

Recreational fishermen are allowed to catch lobsters with hoop nets or by SCUBA diving or free-diving; almost all come from California, with only small numbers from other U.S. states.

Had we been possessed of a hoop net we could, unquestionably, have caught some of them, they were in such quantities, but the attempt to seine them up with our few remaining hats had not been successful.

The California spiny lobster is the subject of both commercial and recreational fishery in both Mexico and the United States, with sport fishermen using hoop nets and commercial fishermen using lobster traps.

No implements other than hoop nets may be used; no one person may have more than 5 nets and no vessel may use more than 10 hoop nets.

However, this method was slow and uncertain and it was replaced by the use of a hand-held hoop net, 1.35 m in diameter, which could be thrown over the bird as the boat approached it downwind while it struggled to become airborne.

For more than 40 years he has been standing up, never allowing boat seats aboard, the better to save space for the morning catch offered up by the river in what seems hand-to-hand combat as he wrestles his hoop nets up from the bottom.