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Definition of Bycatch
1. Noun. 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"
Definition of Bycatch
1. Noun. Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bycatch
1. marine animals caught unintentionally [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bycatch
Literary usage of Bycatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"Willapa Bay - No Marbled Murrelet bycatch was observed in Willapa Bay during ...
bycatch included Common Murres, cormorants, Western and unidentified grebes ..."
2. Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods by National Research Council (U.S.), Division on Earth and Life Studies (2006)
"The shrimp fleet harvests age 0 and 1 red snapper in the form of bycatch.
These vessels use bottom trawls to harvest shrimp, which share a propensity for ..."
3. Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Bertrand Le Gallic (2006)
"The discarded bycatch problem in commercial shrimp fisheries has been addressed
internationally with annual estimates of finfish bycatch ranging from 64 000 ..."
4. Financial Support to Fisheries: Implications for Sustainable Development by Anthony Cox, Carl-Christian Michael Roedsted Schmidt (2006)
"Transfers which lead to increased effort and catches may also result in the
increased bycatch of non-target species and, paradoxically, many OECD countries ..."
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