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I didn't buy this item but as someone who has a bit of commercial fishing knowledge I felt compelled to make a couple comments. First off, this item is way over priced. If you go through a commercial fishing supplier you could get enough material to make 10 of these for this price. Sure you'd have to put it together yourself, but it's not that hard. If you can't figure out how to put a net together, you probably don't have the skills to make it in a survival situation anyway. Second, assuming they're using standard practices for measuring mesh size, 1-1/2" will at best catch some bait. However, that mesh size is way too small to catch "eating size" fish. Anything bigger than a minnow will simply bounce off and not be caught. To clarify for those not familiar with how a gill net works, the holes in the net have to be just big enough for a fish to get his head through, but not the rest of his body. The net then catches under the gill plates when the fish tries to back out. If his head doesn't go through the hole past the gill plates, he doesn't get caught. Now, consider the size of the hole in 1-1/2" mesh. However, you must remember mesh size does not equal hole size. The way gill net is measured is by stretching opposite corners of the hole tight, and then measuring the distance between the corners. So, 1-1/2" mesh means the hole will have a circumference of 3". Divide that by 4, and you'll find the hole size will work out to about a 3/4" x 3/4" square, or a 15/16" diameter circle. Draw that on a piece of paper and think about what size fish could get his head through that. BTW- "FAA Approved Size"!!!???? What does the FAA know about gill netting? ***Update: I was looking through fishing regs and came across something relevant. Florida made "entangling gill nets" illegal a while back. To qualify as an "entangling net" the mesh size has to be greater than 2". So, this 1-1/2" mesh net doesn't even qualify as a gill net by the legal definition.