Sentence:  Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to <WSD>cork</WSD> Joe Anahonak not half an hour before. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.