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    Bycatch (or by-catch), in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species or...
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    Cetacean bycatch (or cetacean by-catch) is the accidental capture of non-target cetaceans such as dolphins, porpoises, and whales by commercial fisheries...
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    Trawling (section Bycatch)
    trawls often catch bycatch that is not as valuable as the bycatch monitored fisheries or utilize midwater trawling which yields less bycatch than the more...
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  • In the fishery business, a bycatch reduction device is a tool designed to minimize unintended capture of marine animals, to reduce the adverse effects...
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    Vaquita (category Species endangered by being bycatch)
    the IUCN Red List; the steep decline in abundance is primarily due to bycatch in gillnets from the illegal totoaba fishery. The vaquita was defined as...
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    more than 3.4 million tons caught per year, chiefly in Asia. Rates of bycatch are unusually high for shrimp fishing, with the capture of sea turtles...
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  • Human bycatch (or human by-catch) is a term for people who are unintentionally caught on film, in photos, or acoustically recorded on equipment used to...
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    family Mobulidae. It is currently listed as endangered, mostly due to bycatch mortality in unrelated fisheries. The devil fish is larger than its close...
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  • purse seine tuna boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Dolphins are a common bycatch in fisheries. There are more than 90,000 dolphins estimated to be killed...
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  • the main driver for management of the Hawaii longline fishery has been bycatch and not fishery resources. The revival of the Hawaii longline fleet in...
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    also accounts for 2% of all bycatch by circle and j hook longline fisheries in the Bay of Bengal. Survival of being bycatch in these types of nets is low...
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    and regulations regarding bycatch treatment are difficult to enforce by the nature of the bycatch being unintentional. Bycatch is often not treated as a...
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    results in large amounts of other marine organisms being also caught as bycatch. When a turtle gets caught or entangled in a trawl net, it becomes trapped...
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    addition, bycatch reports are usually insufficiently precise to the species or even genus level, so it is difficult to keep track of bycatch on a species-by-species...
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    important role in coastal food webs. If sunfish were to be removed as bycatch, it can drive localized trophic cascades with top-down control being reduced...
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    Sea turtle (section Bycatch)
    the most significant and contemporary threats to sea turtles comes from bycatch due to imprecise fishing methods. Long-lining has been identified as a...
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    throughout their range. Bycatch is the main threat that common dolphins face today. Short-beaked common dolphins are taken as cetacean bycatch the most in all...
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    fisheries bycatch", "Marine Policy", 2009 Soykan, C.U. et al., "Why study bycatch? An introduction to the Theme Section on fisheries bycatch", "Endangered...
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  • Bycatch Bering Sea Chinook Bycatch Bering Sea Chum Bycatch Gulf of Alaska Salmon Bycatch Crab Bycatch BSAI Crab Bycatch Gulf of Alaska Crab Bycatch BSAI/GOA...
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    suitable for market, known as bycatch. An increased catch of unsaleable whole fish has resulted from the increased bycatch of the fishing industry. These...
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    of terrapins. Crab pot bycatch may reduce local terrapin populations to less than half. To reduce terrapin entrapment, bycatch reduction devices (BRDs)...
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    2022. Magrane, Eric; Johnson, Maria (2017). "An art–science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery". Cultural Geographies...
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  • braziliensis is currently facing pressure in the South Atlantic due to bycatch and exploitation. Off the coast of the Brazilian states of Sao Paulo and...
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  • environmental impacts of how and where they are fished, such as through bycatch or ocean bottom trawlers. Often groups of species are assessed rather than...
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    impact of industrial fishing on other elements of the environment, such as bycatch. These issues are part of marine conservation, and are addressed in fisheries...
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    the Auckland Islands increased, numbers of sea lions were captured as bycatch and drowned in the squid trawl nets. The government uses a modelling system...
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    medicine, and for their shells. Sea turtles are often killed accidentally as bycatch in fishing nets. Turtle habitats around the world are being destroyed....
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    the Crystal World Exhibition Centre Species Great White Shark Sex Female Died 1997 South Australia Cause of death Bycatch Known for Novelty attraction...
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    means of drive hunting. Larger threats to porpoises include extensive bycatch in gill nets, competition for food from fisheries, and marine pollution...
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    killings of birds. While hunting kills millions of terrestrial birds, the bycatch from commercial fisheries is responsible for the majority of human caused...
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