Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The portion of a fishing catch that is discarded as unwanted or commercially unusable.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
bycatch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species
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Examples
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While sharks are often caught accidentally called by-catch, a global market exists for shark fins, the main ingredient in shark fin soup.
Francesca Koe: Save a Shark: Take a Bite Out of Shark Finning Francesca Koe 2011
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While sharks are often caught accidentally called by-catch, a global market exists for shark fins, the main ingredient in shark fin soup.
Francesca Koe: Save a Shark: Take a Bite Out of Shark Finning Francesca Koe 2011
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While sharks are often caught accidentally called by-catch, a global market exists for shark fins, the main ingredient in shark fin soup.
Francesca Koe: Save a Shark: Take a Bite Out of Shark Finning Francesca Koe 2011
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Many sharks, rays and marine mammals are caught as by-catch of driftnet and longline fishing.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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But once you start fishing deep you've got by-catch.
Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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Crashing populations, horrible pollution problems, by-catch that you would not believe – millions and millions of tons every year thrown over the side.
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But once you start fishing deep you've got by-catch.
Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO) Steven Crandell 2011
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The Troll trap only ever caught by-catch, not the intended target.
Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me. 2010
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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.
Chris Ninnes: Protecting B.C. Salmon Stocks Chris Ninnes 2010
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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.
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