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bycatch::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | by-catch |
| Type of | marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature |
Examples of bycatch
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Some shrimp fisheries have a bycatch five times the weight of the caught shrimp.
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In some cases fishermen are required to relocate when a bycatch problem occurs.
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Spanish mackerel and weakfish bycatch in the South Atlantic was reduced by 40%.
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Some fisheries retain bycatch, rather than throwing the fish back into the ocean.
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In protected waters all shark fishing is banned and all bycatch must be released.
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Still more sea horses are caught accidentally as bycatch in shrimp fisheries.
From the heraldtribune.com
These rays are targeted by commercial fisherman, and also caught as bycatch.
From the theepochtimes.com
In prawn fisheries in Asia, for example, owners paid their deck-hands in bycatch fish.
From the newscientist.com
It includes no obligation to protect marine mammals and is weak on minimising bycatch.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- By-catch: unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species; "thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year"
- The term bycatch is usually used for fish caught unintentionally in a fishery while intending to catch other fish. It may however also indicate untargeted catch in other forms of animal harvesting or collecting. Bycatch are either of a different species or juveniles of the target species.
- Fish and/or other marine life that are incidentally caught with the targeted species. Most of the time bycatch is discarded at sea.
- Is the undesired extra catch taken when trawling. According to the Earth Island Institute's video TEDs: turtle excluder devices, a shrimp trawler without a TED takes 10 pounds of unwanted (and hence, discarded) catch for each pound of shrimp.
- Fish and other marine animals caught in fishers' nts that are not the target of the fishing. They are generally thrown over as waste.*
- Fishes or other animals caught by accident in fishing gear. Bycatch is usually thrown back dead or dying.
- Or by-catch. Part of a catch of a fishing unit taken incidentally in addition to the target species towards which fishing effort is directed. Some or all of it may be returned to the sea as discards, usually dead or dying.
- Fish, birds, and marine mammals that fishers catch unintentionally.
- Unwanted fish that are accidentally netted or caught in the process of fishing for higher value fish.
