How To Use By-catch In A Sentence

  • 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.
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  • 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
  • We also know that many species are caught in phenomenally large numbers by fishing them, typically as by-catch from longline fishing worldwide, but also from trawls and gill net, than any other kinds of fishery.
  • Some estimates suggest that as many as 900,000 young salmon are being killed by mackerel and herring fleets in the North Sea only to be dumped over the side as by-catch discards.
  • When a food bank contacted them about starting a program to collect the by-catch for donation to chanties, they were on it in a flash.
  • Many sharks, rays and marine mammals are caught as by-catch of driftnet and longline fishing. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
  • It was by-catch from the big purse-seine nets. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is an ecologically minded practice for it prevents over fishing and eliminates by-catches.
  • About a third are taken by commercial vessels, a third by anglers and the rest as by-catch. Times, Sunday Times
  • The so-called by-catch includes sharks, turtles and sea birds such as albatrosses. Times, Sunday Times
  • While sharks are often caught accidentally called by-catch, a global market exists for shark fins, the main ingredient in shark fin soup. Francesca Koe: Save a Shark: Take a Bite Out of Shark Finning
  • To ensure that the oceans continue to serve as one of our most important food reservoirs, there are many problems which must be addressed, notably over-fishing, wasted by-catches and pollution.
  • The Troll trap only ever caught by-catch, not the intended target. Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.
  • It had long been known that setting on tunas associated with logs produced high by-catches of other tuna species, sharks, mahi-mahi, wahoos, billfishes, and other large marine predators.
  • We have already purchased significant quantities of pingers which deter cetacean by-catch.
  • The advice will cover not just fisheries that target cod in these areas, but also fisheries that catch cod as a by-catch.
  • Hand, seine and long-line fishing (with 1,500 to 5,000 hooks per line) are used to overfish all commercial species and they cause much destructive by-catch of sharks. Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia
  • They have always acknowledged that when that occurs and kahawai are caught as a by-catch, it is entirely appropriate that fishers can take them home, smoke them, and provide them on the roadside for New Zealanders to enjoy.
  • Ballan wrasse tend to be a by-catch for most anglers when fishing breakwaters and easy access rock marks.
  • By-catches of gadoids and hake in the Nephrops fisheries are often considerable.
  • A lot of skates and rays and the chimaeras are not as charismatic as white sharks or whale sharks or a manta ray, but these things are probably taken in far greater numbers in terms of by-catch.
  • Almost all of that by-catch dies and is shoveled back into the bay. Houston Chronicle
  • Here's just one example: for the South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish fishery, stringent requirements include an independent observer on board every vessel on every trip to record catch data and fishery interactions with seabirds and a range of measures taken during the course of the involvement with the MSC program to reduce seabird by-catch has reduced albatross mortality from several thousand annually to single figures. Chris Ninnes: Protecting B.C. Salmon Stocks
  • It estimated that the by-catch, cod, haddock and whiting, trapped along with these small fish is about five per cent of the total swept up by these nets.
  • He is concerned that molas comprise an ‘alarmingly’ large portion of the eastern Pacific drift net fishery by-catch.
  • Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted. Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma
  • We also know that many species are caught in phenomenally large numbers by fishing them, typically as by-catch from longline fishing worldwide, but also from trawls and gill net, than any other kinds of fishery.
  • Ices yesterday called for a ban on cod fishing in the North Sea, the Irish Sea and off the west coast of Scotland - and for a moratorium on fishing in areas where the species is caught as a by-catch - to rebuild fish stocks.
  • To use a commercial fishing term, recreational fishermen now find themselves the by-catch in this argument.
  • Thys is concerned that molas comprise an ‘alarmingly’ large portion of the eastern Pacific drift net fishery by-catch, and that population numbers in the western Pacific are declining.
  • But, to protect the pilchard stocks, the ministry will set up a control mechanism to monitor the presence of pilchard in catches and will close an area for fishing if pilchard is present in the by-catch.
  • And because cod are a by-catch of haddock, whiting and prawn, other key fisheries should be closed too.
  • And as the green lobbyists go on to complain, this is a system based on measuring what is landed on the quay, not on the by-catch which is thrown back into the sea for being under-sized or over-quota.
  • This was due to the now scientifically proved belief that substantial amounts of cod were a by-catch of prawns.
  • There should, however, be just enough commercial quota to cover the inevitable by-catch so that that is properly accounted for, but kahawai should not be targeted.

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