by-catch

How To Use by-catch In A Sentence

• Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted. Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma
• The advice will cover not just fisheries that target cod in these areas, but also fisheries that catch cod as a by-catch.
• Hand, seine and long-line fishing (with 1,500 to 5,000 hooks per line) are used to overfish all commercial species and they cause much destructive by-catch of sharks. Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia
• They have always acknowledged that when that occurs and kahawai are caught as a by-catch, it is entirely appropriate that fishers can take them home, smoke them, and provide them on the roadside for New Zealanders to enjoy.
• Ballan wrasse tend to be a by-catch for most anglers when fishing breakwaters and easy access rock marks.
• By-catches of gadoids and hake in the Nephrops fisheries are often considerable.
• A lot of skates and rays and the chimaeras are not as charismatic as white sharks or whale sharks or a manta ray, but these things are probably taken in far greater numbers in terms of by-catch.
• Almost all of that by-catch dies and is shoveled back into the bay. Houston Chronicle
• Here's just one example: for the South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish fishery, stringent requirements include an independent observer on board every vessel on every trip to record catch data and fishery interactions with seabirds and a range of measures taken during the course of the involvement with the MSC program to reduce seabird by-catch has reduced albatross mortality from several thousand annually to single figures. Chris Ninnes: Protecting B.C. Salmon Stocks
• It estimated that the by-catch, cod, haddock and whiting, trapped along with these small fish is about five per cent of the total swept up by these nets.