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Catching in net at sea, seeking fish (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

entangling

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'catching' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being present participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'net at sea seeking fish' is the wordplay.
'at sea' indicates anagramming the letters.
'seeking fish' becomes 'angling' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'net' with letters rearranged gives 'ent'.
'ent'+'angling'='ENTANGLING'

'in' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for entangling that I've seen before include "Causing involvement" , "Capturing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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