GBC
Traditional Fisheries

Drift

Modern equivalent

Approx. 1 mile of nets

A historic fleet measure representing a connected train of herring drift-nets stretching nearly a mile long.

Drift measured both physical gear deployment at sea and expected harvesting capacity. A single drift of nets required skilled seamanship to deploy and haul across nocturnal migration paths.

Related units

Cran

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