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fyke

 (fīk)
n.
A long, bag-shaped fishing net held open by hoops.

[Dutch fuik, from Middle Dutch fūke.]
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fyke

(faɪk)
n
(Fishing) US a fish trap consisting of a net suspended over a series of hoops, laid horizontally in the water
[C19: from Middle Dutch fuycke]
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fyke

(faɪk)

n. Hudson and Delaware Valleys.
a bag-shaped fish trap.
[1825–35, Amer.; < Dutch fuik, Middle Dutch fuycke; c. Old Frisian fūcke]
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Caption: Dexter Lockhart, Lloyd Hackney, Doug Steiner, Robert Fykes
Jeremy Fykes, who joined Guaranty in December 2015, after serving at another Denton-based financial institution since 2001, will serve as the president of Denton market.
Fykes has joined Guaranty as Denton market president.
Their duties and responsibilities included overseeing the various fisheries in town including harvesting shellfish, the use of eel fykes, and herring runs.
Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis described it as a place of "pitiable people living on man-made islands, hunting fish which escape to deep waters at low tide with nets fashioned from reeds and rushes." Archaeological finds in the form of weirs, fykes, dip, and seine nets have revealed ancient technologies which were still in use in living memory.
Fykes has joined Guaranty as Denton market president after having served the financial needs of Denton County residents and businesses since 2001 at another local financial institution.
Traditional fishing devices include traps, fykes, hooks, fishing lines, cast nets and poisons, that are manufactured and used in different ways and often highly typical of a specific area.
Managing director Brent Fykes serves as head of the new Florida office.
Managing director, Brent Fykes, will serve as head of the Florida office.
Herein, LTRM data were summarized from day electrofishing (108 SRS samples and 12 fixed site samples collected per year) and mini fyke netting (72 SRS samples and 12 fixed site samples per year) in main channel, side channel, and backwater habitats, and trawling (12 fixed samples per year) at the Peoria TWZ only.
Other accounts describe the use of fyke nets, known to fisherman as "turtle nets" and "turtle traps." These lykes were inexpensive setups, valued at one or two dollars apiece (in 1894).