: the portion of a commercial fishing catch that consists of marine animals caught unintentionally
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Beyond bureaucratic concerns, there are a host of malicious uses for this human genomic bycatch.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
Conservation efforts worldwide aim to protect sea turtle nesting sites, reduce bycatch, and mitigate other threats to help these ancient creatures survive.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
Hunting and overfishing, whether intentional or as bycatch, can be harmful.
—Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
There is emerging scientific consensus among scientists that at-sea bycatch is not the major reason for the crashes.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
Human genomic bycatch could be used to continually monitor for cancer-causing mutations, which arise and accumulate over a person’s lifetime.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
Anything caught up in the net that wasn’t the target food species—known as bycatch—gets hauled aboard the ship, often dead, and thrown back overboard.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
The project is working with fishermen and larger fisheries to reduce this bycatch.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
This included the hundreds of redfish that were scooped up as bycatch.
—Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
Conservation efforts worldwide aim to protect sea turtle nesting sites, reduce bycatch, and mitigate other threats to help these ancient creatures survive.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
Hunting and overfishing, whether intentional or as bycatch, can be harmful.
—Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
There is emerging scientific consensus among scientists that at-sea bycatch is not the major reason for the crashes.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
Human genomic bycatch could be used to continually monitor for cancer-causing mutations, which arise and accumulate over a person’s lifetime.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
Anything caught up in the net that wasn’t the target food species—known as bycatch—gets hauled aboard the ship, often dead, and thrown back overboard.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
The project is working with fishermen and larger fisheries to reduce this bycatch.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
This included the hundreds of redfish that were scooped up as bycatch.
—Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
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“Bycatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bycatch. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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