Dipnet
A hand net, also called a scoop net, is a fishing net or meshed basket held open on a rigid hoop, which may or may not be mounted to the end of a handle. A hand net with a long handle is often called a dip net. When it is used by an angler to help fetch out ("land") a hooked fish, it is called a landing net.Fishing Tools - Landing Nets
Hand nets have been used since antiquity for catching fish near the surface of the water, especially feisty, powerful ones such as or . Because hand-netting is not physically destruct ...
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Chitina
Chitina (Ahtna language, Ahtna Athabascan Tsedi Na < ''tsedi'' "copper" + ''na'' "river") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census the population was 126, up from 123 in 2000.

Geography

Chitina is located on the west bank of the Copper River (Alaska), Copper River at its confluence with the Chitina River on the Edgerton Highway, and junction with the McCarthy Road. It is southeast of Copper Center, Alaska, Copper Center and southeast of Glennallen, Alaska, Glennallen. It is outside the western boundary of the Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve. In 1945, work had begun to convert the CR&NW railroad line, from Cordova to Kennicott, into a highway, but work halted with the 1964 Alaska earthquake, 1964 Good Friday earthquake, leaving a significant gap between Chitina and the Million Dollar Bridge near Co ...
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