• 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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    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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    special case of sonar Gunfire locator Human echolocation, the use of echolocation by blind people Human bycatch Medical ultrasonography, the use of ultrasound...
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    camera traps have proven to be a successful tool for study. BeetleCam Human bycatch Remote camera Smart camera "WWF - Camera Traps - More on Camera Traps"...
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  • both parties are not aware of the conversation having been recorded. Human bycatch Photography and the law Street photography Sousveillance (inverse surveillance)...
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    done naturally by the animal food chain. Animal migration tracking Human bycatch Wildlife photography Davis, D. E. and R. L. Winstead, 1980. Estimating...
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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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    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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    Vaquita (category Species that are or were threatened 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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    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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    the coast of Oman, also has mahi-mahi. At first, mahi-mahi were mostly bycatch in the tuna and swordfish longline fishery. Now, they are sought by commercial...
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    which greatly reduces mortality of sharks and bycatch to less than 2%. Drum lines result in bycatch. For example, in 2015 the non-profit organization...
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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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    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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    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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    populations may be caused by more frequent bycatch and the increasing popularity of sunfish in human diet. The fishery bycatch and destruction of ocean sunfish...
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    commercial fisheries, but could be threatened by mortality from bycatch; the degree of impact from human activities on its population is unknown. American ichthyologists...
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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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    both commercial and traditional Māori fisheries. They are also common bycatch of the Australasian snapper (Pagrus auratus), mullet (Mugilidae), white...
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    its flesh, resulting in irreversible injury. Similarly, mantas become bycatch when entangled in gill nets designed for smaller fish. Some mantas are...
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    mortality due to collisions with buildings and vehicles; long-line fishing bycatch; pollution (including oil spills and pesticide use), competition; predation;...
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    commercial fishing is illegal, but accidental bycatch can be used (in Norway, any basking shark caught as bycatch and still alive must be released). As of...
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    stock of the species. Today, the Greenland shark is primarily caught as bycatch in industrial fisheries. While about 25 Greenland sharks are caught per...
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    on bycatch in many regions are sparse. Animals caught as bycatch are sometimes used as bait in fisheries. Individuals are taken for bait or human consumption...
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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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    Shrimp (section Human uses)
    the capture of wild shrimp. There are significant issues with excessive bycatch when shrimp are captured in the wild, and with pollution damage done to...
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  • November 24, 2021. Fisheries, NOAA (August 12, 2021). "Report on IUU Fishing, Bycatch and Shark Catch | NOAA Fisheries". NOAA. Archived from the original on...
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    Geography (section Human)
    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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    MH, Murawski SA, Pope JG (1996) [1994]. "Bycatch of Marine Mammals". A global assessment of fisheries bycatch and discards. Rome: Food and Agriculture...
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