Sentence examples for bycatch drop from inspiring English sources
Within weeks of attaching the pingers to their nets, fishermen saw porpoise bycatch drop by 90 percent.
In fact, bycatch dropped this year from roughly 15 percent of the annual catch in the fishery to roughly 1 percent, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service.
Bycatch has dropped from 15 percent to 20 percent of the total haul to less than 1 percent.
Over the past two decades, bycatch levels in the United States have dropped about 30percentthanksnks to adjustments to fishing gear and a shift to more sustainable management strategies.
Yet many familiar species continue to fall victim to bycatch.
It is Endangered in the northwestern Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, where though it is a non-targeted species, populations have dropped 50% since the 1990s due to bycatch.
It was further agreed that fishers using troll-lines, long-lines, drop-lines, etc, and taking SBT as a bycatch, would be permitted to do so provided the catch-per-boat did not exceed 5 tonnes.
CBL means crab bycatch limit.
Bycatch Reduction Devices (BRD) (n.d.).
