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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Common dolphin (section Human interactions)
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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Porpoise (section Interactions with humans)
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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Mahi-mahi (section Relation to humans)
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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Gulper shark (section Fishing and bycatch)
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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Callinectes sapidus (section Bycatch)
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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Ocean sunfish (section Human interaction)
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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Dwarf lanternshark (section Human interactions)
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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Giant sunfish (section Economic importance for humans)
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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Arripis (section Importance to humans)
both commercial and traditional Māori fisheries. They are also common bycatch of the Australasian snapper (Pagrus auratus), mullet (Mugilidae), white...
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Manta ray (section Relation with humans)
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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Basking shark (section Importance to humans)
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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Melon-headed whale (section Fisheries bycatch)
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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Alepisaurus ferox (section Bycatch)
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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Mammal (section In human culture)
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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