bycatch
Definitions
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- noun Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.
- verb To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.
Examples
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The organisation wants to call attention to the problem of dolphin bycatch in fishing nets and wants to inspire people to adopt endangered dolphins from the north sea.
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Every year they hook, maim and kill hundreds of thousands of unintended victims -- called "bycatch" -- including turtles, seabirds, whales, sharks, and dolphins.
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They have a high "bycatch" - they trap a large quantity of untargeted species, the majority of which are thrown back, dead or dying, into the sea.
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A potentially thorny outcome of fishing a broader range of species is that, in addition to catching high-value species such as salmon, fishing operators would also pull up numerous low-value fish, known as bycatch, that would otherwise be avoided or caught inadvertently and tossed back.
Note
The word 'bycatch' come from 'catch' and the word 'by' in the sense of 'secondary; not main'.
