What does Bycatch mean?
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Princeton's WordNet
by-catch, bycatchnoun
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"
Wiktionary
bycatchnoun
Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.
bycatchverb
To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.
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bycatch
Bycatch refers to the unintended fish or other marine species that are caught while fishing for a specific species. This can include, but is not limited to, juvenile fish, non-target fish species, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds. These unwanted species, often caught in fishing nets or lines, are usually thrown back into the sea either dead or dying. It's considered a significant issue contributing towards overfishing and marine ecosystems destruction.
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Bycatch
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 is of a different species, undersized individuals of the target species, or juveniles of the target species. In 1997, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defined bycatch as “total fishing mortality, excluding that accounted directly by the retained catch of target species”. Bycatch contributes to fishery decline and is a mechanism of overfishing for unintentional catch. There are at least four different ways the word “bycatch” is used in fisheries: ⁕Catch which is retained and sold but which is not the target species for the fishery ⁕Species/sizes/sexes of fish which fishermen discard ⁕Non-target fish, whether retained and sold or discarded ⁕Unwanted invertebrate species, such as echinoderms and non-commercial crustaceans, and various vulnerable species groups, including seabirds, sea turtles, marine mammals and elasmobranchs.
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The numerical value of Bycatch in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of Bycatch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Bycatch in a Sentence
These [threats] include water pollution caused by oil development and marine transport as well as fishery-associated hazards, such as bycatch and depletion of prey species.
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