by-catch

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• Crashing populations, horrible pollution problems, by-catch that you would not believe – millions and millions of tons every year thrown over the side. An Interview with Hajime Sato
• Or are there high incidences of by-catch of other non-target species? Times, Sunday Times
• With modern fishing we can accept a cod by-catch of, say 2%, in other fisheries whilst stopping fishing for cod as a main catch for a few years.
• Bat rays are often caught in trawling and gill nets as unwanted by-catch.
• The commission argues that the fishery must be restricted since cod, in desperately dire straits, is caught as a so-called by-catch of the prawn fishery.
• In these extreme northern latitudes of Baffin Bay, by-catch consisted primarily of gelatinous snailfish, Arctic skate, and four-beard rockling.
• The commission says it is to stop the incidental by-catch of endangered species, marine mammals, sea turtles and sea birds. Times, Sunday Times
• thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year
• But once you start fishing deep you've got by-catch. Steven Crandell: Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO)
• This kind of fishing means that no other small fish are hauled in as by-catch. Times, Sunday Times