Sentence examples for the bycatch from inspiring English sources
noun
Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.
And again, the bycatch is tremendous.
Evidence: A 2006 study argues that the bycatch toll from gillnets is unsustainable.
(Industry-wide, the bycatch of industrial fishing is as high as 25 percent).
Dr. Rand said he and his colleagues were working with the fisheries to minimize the bycatch problem.
Elephants, rhinos, lions, polar bears, the great sharks, turtles, condors, whales, rainforests, wetlands, coral reefs: they are all the bycatch of consumerism.
Reducing the "bycatch" -- unintended netting of dolphins, sea turtles and other species -- is a top concern of the agency's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The spatial distribution of the birds' bycatch was concentrated in the boundary of the HFC and the distance to the boundary had a significant effect on the interactions.
The institutions discussed include the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Community Development Quota system, the Pollock Conservation Cooperative, and the cooperative bycatch control system known as Sea State used by the factory trawler fleets.
According to research by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, bycatch in the US reduces potential fisheries revenue by $427m.
One potential factor contributing to the decline of the western stock is the incidental bycatch of spawning bluefin tuna by pelagic longline fisheries in the GOM [8].
According to U.S. law -- specifically, the international bycatch provision of the Marine Mammal Protection Act -- imported fish is supposed to meet U.S. standards for bycatch reduction.
