"sternpicker" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From stern + picker.",
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          "ref": "1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146:",
          "text": "The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work.",
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          "ref": "2008, Bert Bender, Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet, →ISBN, page 145:",
          "text": "Word got around that it had won the Columbia River fishing boat race, as a bowpicker, before being rebuilt as a sternpicker for the Inlet fishery.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place, →ISBN:",
          "text": "As the fishery evolved, the practical and beautiful butterfly fleet—dories named for their widespread sails—gave way to more prosaic but still handsome diesel sternpickers and bowpickers.",
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        "A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat."
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        {
          "word": "bowpicker"
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