11.   Like toy and hardware makers before them, small manufacturers of fishing gear are being acquired by aggressive competitors looking to build economies of scale.

12.   Other whales get entangled in fishing gear.

13.   Scientific understanding of the effects of fishing gear on the sea floor has also increased.

14.   Seefeldt, whose childhood fishing gear included toeless tennis shoes and cutoff shorts, said that was exactly the point to his dream of restocking the area creeks.

15.   Some ticket buyers, dressed in ponchos and fishing gear, sat out the rain in folding chairs on the infield.

16.   The plan may incorporate restrictions on the season, on the type of fishing gear used, or on the size and numbers of fish allowed to be caught.

17.   The right whale with fishing gear embedded in his jaw was pronounced terminally ill at the beginning of the summer.

18.   There were muzzle loaders, second-hand rifles, books on making buckskin clothing, ammunition and fishing gear.

19.   They had the usual gear -- a snowmobile towing a tote-sled full of fishing gear to set up over a hole they would cut through the ice.

20.   Under the Endangered Species Act, he argued, the killing of whales with fishing gear is illegal even if it is accidental.