Bycatch in a sentence

Management of the species includes gear regulations, seasonal fishing, bycatch limitations, minimum size limits, commercial creed limits, and bycatch reduction gear.

Another potentially significant issue is what we have named "behavioral bycatch": all the costs for organisms unintentionally caught up in a behavior-based management project.

Bycatch is difficult to measure.

Researchers coined the term for the phenomenon as human genetic bycatch (HGB).

This project met the requirements to issue licenses to commercial longliners to have a more sustainable method to catch tuna and lower bycatch of sailfish.

Trawl industry representatives say that bycatch, which the industry is required by law to discard, is not the driving force behind recent crab, salmon and halibut declines.

While not specifically targeted by commercial fisheries, they may face threats such as bycatch, or from pollution.

After her speech, Canfield said she hopes people continue to learn about the effects trawler bycatch has on salmon fisheries, as well as its impacts on Alaska Native youth who want to connect with their culture.

Before the fish market closed, everything went there, but around 25% of what he fishes are species considered bycatch: pouting, horse mackerel and scad.

California is currently acting on the issue of bycatch by helping fishermen phase out use of large-mesh drift gill nets in state waters.

Commercial fisheries veteran Linda Kozak of Kodiak, chair of the Bycatch Advisory Council, said some of the recommended research is already underway or being contemplated.

Two ways in which it has been suggested that bottom trawling could be impacting on cod populations is through damage to their nursery grounds and by cod moralities in their bycatch.

The bond also targets projects using bycatch, which is later processed to make value-added products.

Effective rhino ray conservation will require a suite of measures working in concert: national species protection, habitat management, bycatch reduction and international trade restrictions.

Eliminating plastics and bycatch, making data more useful, putting sonar sensors on robotic boats, all very interesting.

Until recently it was illegal to catch spiny dogfish in UK waters, but if it accidentally finds its way into nets used to catch other fish it can now be sold as 'bycatch'.

However, eliminating bycatch completely is insufficient to halt declines of one turtle and one bird population across much of the world, due to other factors, the authors found.

The incentive was to take fish caught unintentionally as bycatch, which were required by law to be thrown back into the sea, and give this highly nutritious protein to food banks.

Bycatch represents about a quarter of all marine catch.

In the case of shrimp capture, the bycatch is five times larger than the shrimp caught.