I don't know how your overflows are set up but when this happened to me I just restricted the drain so the aquarium overfilled and this enabled the fish to just swim out of the top of the overflow all on its own. Obviously not the best way if left unattended, but for the dumb clownfish that jumped the gate it was as stress free as I could have made it.
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