Definition of bycatch
: the portion of a commercial fishing catch that consists of marine animals caught unintentionally
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Permit can only be commercially harvested if they are netted as bycatch in the Pompano Endorsement Zone off Florida's west coast.
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Such fishing would result in bycatch of other species, including chinook salmon.
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The fish pictured in the New Times photograph, Adams said, would likely not have been bycatch by a pompano netter because of its size.
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But whether or not sharks will increasingly become bycatch as their numbers rise is unclear, says Benson.
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The result is often high amounts of bycatch, or sea creatures caught by fishers unintentionally.
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Farming shrimp also helps with the wild shrimping 80 percent bycatch rate.
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The 81 million pounds caught each year mostly as bycatch in trawl fisheries could provide more protein to the pet food, aquaculture and livestock feed markets.
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As many as one hundred million sharks are killed each year, much of it in the form of bycatch in an attempt to catch other forms of seafood but also for shark’s fin soup, a delicacy in China.
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First Known Use of bycatch
1974
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