by-catch

• “While sharks are often caught accidentally called by-catch, a global market exists for shark fins, the main ingredient in shark fin soup.”

  The Huffington Post: Francesca Koe: Save a Shark: Take a Bite Out of Shark Finning

• “Many sharks, rays and marine mammals are caught as by-catch of driftnet and longline fishing.”

  Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador

• “But once you start fishing deep you've got by-catch.”

  The Huffington Post: Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO)

• “The Troll trap only ever caught by-catch, not the intended target.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.

• “Crashing populations, horrible pollution problems, by-catch that you would not believe – millions and millions of tons every year thrown over the side.”

  An Interview with Hajime Sato

• “Here's just one example: for the South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish fishery, stringent requirements include an independent observer on board every vessel on every trip to record catch data and fishery interactions with seabirds and a range of measures taken during the course of the involvement with the MSC program to reduce seabird by-catch has reduced albatross mortality from several thousand annually to single figures.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Ninnes: Protecting B.C. Salmon Stocks

• “Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted.”

  Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma

• “Current threats include changes in land-and water-use, human exploitation of resources upon which the animals depend, direct cropping of the animals for food or sport, accidental killing (as in the by-catch resulting from other fisheries), or pollution.”

  Managing biodiversity conservation in a changing environment of the Arctic

• “The WWF estimates that 90% of non-natural whale deaths are due to collisions with ships, followed by "by-catch," whales becoming caught in nets, and then lastly, by fishing.”

  Richard Spilman: Whale Wars - Eco-Terrorism as Reality TV

• “The long line and nylon gill nets widely employed by the fishermen create unintended by-catch of sea turtles.”

  Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection, Panama

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