bycatch

Speech parts

1. bycatch - Noun

2. bycatch - Verb

Meaning

unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

by-catch incidentally catch seabird overfishing cyanide fishing longlining catches discards ghost fishing illegal fishing unregulated fishing by-catches blast fishing depletion of fish stocks
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Hypernyms

sea creature marine animal marine creature sea animal

Examples

thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year Source: Internet

Other than hunting, marine mammals can be killed as bycatch from fisheries, where they become entangled in fixed netting and drown or starve. Source: Internet

A dozen trawlers are tying up for the year early due to tripping the 2,700 chinook salmon bycatch cap in Central and Western Gulf groundfish fisheries. Source: Internet

A new fishery management plan will reduce halibut bycatch by 21 percent in Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands trawl and longline groundfish fisheries to 3,515 metric tons (7.73 million pounds). Source: Internet

Both alternatives would also lower halibut bycatch caps for the GOA non-rockfish trawl fishery, relative to the current 1,515-metric ton limit. Source: Internet

Fish to more than 50cm responded well to soft plastics and pilchards or bluebait, with flathead and snook taken as bycatch. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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