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Definitions of bycatch in various dictionaries:
noun - unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species
noun - marine animals caught unintentionally
BYCATCH - Bycatch, in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while catching certain target species and target s...
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| Times with snag: unwanted net gains |
| Unwanted fish or other aquatic creatures in a fisherman’s net |
| Heartless young man opens 7 down for those from the cast that are not wanted |
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| Jun 16 2018 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Dec 31 2017 The Times - Specialist |
| Jan 6 2017 The Times - Cryptic |
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| unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species |
| fish or other sea creatures that are caught unintentionally by people who are trying to catch other types of fish: |
| The unwanted fish and other marine creatures trapped by commercial fishing nets during fishing for a different species. |
| Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea. |
| To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else. |
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Bycatch, in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while catching certain target species and target sizes of fish, crabs etc. Bycatch is either of a different species, the wrong sex, or is undersized or juvenile individuals of the target species. The term "bycatch" is also sometimes used for untargeted catch in other forms of animal harvesting or collecting. * In 1997, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 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.The average annual bycatch rate in the U.S. from 1990 to 1999 was 6215 with standard error of 448.The fisherman bycatch issue originated due to the mortality of dolphins in tuna nets in the 1960s There are at least four different ways the word "bycatch" is used in fisheries: * Catch which is retain |