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 cetacean species such as dolphins, porpoises, and whales by commercial...
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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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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 (section Fisheries 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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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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Dolphin safe label (section Non-dolphin bycatch)
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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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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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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Fish hydrolysate (section Bycatch)
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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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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Environmental impact of fishing (section Bycatch)
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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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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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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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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have been recorded as far north as Greenland. They are often caught as bycatch by vessels long-lining for tuna. The generic name is from Greek a- meaning...
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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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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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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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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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Drift netting (section Bycatch)
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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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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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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are considered unsustainable by some authorities due to excess bycatch, although bycatch is said to be much reduced if fish aggregation devices are not...
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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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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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which greatly reduces mortality of sharks and bycatch to less than 2%. Drum lines result in bycatch. For example, in 2015 the following was said about...
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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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continues to be caught throughout its range, both intentionally and as bycatch, with varying degrees of monitoring and management. The International Union...
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