bycatch

The organisation wants to call attention to the problem of dolphin bycatch in fishing nets and wants to inspire people to adopt endangered dolphins from the north sea.

Golfinhos / Dolphins Red 2007

The organisation wants to call attention to the problem of dolphin bycatch in fishing nets and wants to inspire people to adopt endangered dolphins from the north sea.

Archive 2007-01-01 Red 2007

Every year they hook, maim and kill hundreds of thousands of unintended victims -- called "bycatch" -- including turtles, seabirds, whales, sharks, and dolphins.

Matt Rigney: The BP Oil Spill: Spilt Milk Matt Rigney 2010

They have a high "bycatch" - they trap a large quantity of untargeted species, the majority of which are thrown back, dead or dying, into the sea.

GOOD Main 2008

A potentially thorny outcome of fishing a broader range of species is that, in addition to catching high-value species such as salmon, fishing operators would also pull up numerous low-value fish, known as bycatch, that would otherwise be avoided or caught inadvertently and tossed back.

Scientific American 2010

"Factory" fishing practices like bottom trawling empties the sea of life-much of which is thrown away dead, as useless "bycatch" - while utterly destroying habitat.

Popular Science 2009

As vaquita populations approach a critically low number, scientists maintain that accidental "bycatch" of vaquita in fishing nets must be reduced to zero and that removal of all gillnets from the animal's entire range is the only way to accomplish zero mortality.

Biodiversity 100: actions for the Americas Guillaume Chapron 2010

Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and longline fishers (which can deploy thousands of baited hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles (as well as other species of "bycatch," including sharks and even seabirds).

A Struggle for the Sea Turtles 2007

Commercial fishing vessels have employed nonselective fishing methods such as trawling, purse seines, and long-line fishing that harvest and destroy a great deal of sea life known as bycatch that isn’t their intended product.

SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

Commercial fishing vessels have employed nonselective fishing methods such as trawling, purse seines, and long-line fishing that harvest and destroy a great deal of sea life known as bycatch that isn’t their intended product.

SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010