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PRONUNCIATION OF BY-CATCH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BY-CATCH

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By-Catch is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BY-CATCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Bycatch

In the fishing industry, a bycatch is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while catching certain target species and target sizes of fish, crabs etc. Bycatch is either of a different species, or is undersized or juveniles individuals of the target species. The term "bycatch" is also sometimes used for untargeted catch in other forms of animal harvesting or collecting. In 1997, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development defined bycatch as "total fishing mortality, excluding that accounted directly by the retained catch of target species". Bycatch contributes to fishery decline and is a mechanism of overfishing for unintentional catch. There are at least four different ways the word "bycatch" is used in fisheries: ▪ Catch which is retained and sold but which is not the target species for the fishery ▪ Species/sizes/sexes of fish which fishermen discard ▪ Non-target fish, whether retained and sold or discarded ▪ Unwanted invertebrate species, such as echinoderms and non-commercial crustaceans, and various vulnerable species groups, including seabirds, sea turtles, marine mammals and elasmobranchs.

Definition of by-catch in the English dictionary

The definition of by-catch in the dictionary is unwanted fish and other sea animals caught in a fishing net along with the desired kind of fish.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BY-CATCH

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by the skin of one´s teeth
by the vanload
by the way
by turns
by virtue of
by way of
by word of mouth
by your leave
by yourselves
by-bidder
by-blow
by-election
by-form
by-line
by-liner
by-numbers
by-play
by-product
by-your-leave

WORDS THAT END LIKE BY-CATCH

batch
catch
dispatch
from scratch
hatch
latch
match
on the watch
outcatch
overcatch
patch
recatch
safety catch
Scotch catch
scratch
seecatch
snatch
swatch
upcatch
watch

Synonyms and antonyms of by-catch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «by-catch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BY-CATCH

Find out the translation of by-catch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of by-catch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «by-catch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

副渔获物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la captura incidental
570 millions of speakers

English

by-catch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

द्वारा पकड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المصيد العرضي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прилова
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

by-catch
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাই-ধরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les prises accessoires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan menangkap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beifang
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

混獲
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

별 캐치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dening-nyekel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đánh bắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூலம்-பிடிக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hedef dışı av
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

catture
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przyłów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прилова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capturilor accidentale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρεμπιπτόντων αλιευμάτων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

byvangste
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bifångst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bifangst
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of by-catch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BY-CATCH»

The term «by-catch» is regularly used and occupies the 103.721 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BY-CATCH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «by-catch» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «by-catch» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about by-catch

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BY-CATCH»

Discover the use of by-catch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to by-catch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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By-catch Reduction in the World's Fisheries
This book comes after several decades of outstanding and successful research that has helped ameliorate some of the most important and controversial fisheries issues in the world – those associated with the unwanted wastage of fish from ...
Steven J. Kennelly, 2010
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Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem
FRS Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK Abstract Most fishing operations trap organisms that are not the primary fishing target, and are commonly referred to as the by-catch. It may include small individuals of the target species, or other species ...
Michael Sinclair, Grimur Valdimarsson, 2003
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Improving Farmed Fish Quality and Safety
13.2.1 Fisheries by-catch Marine fisheries operate by locating schools of targeted species and using gear that not only captures the target species, but also is designed to exclude small fish that cannot be processed by mechanical equipment.
Ø Lie, 2008
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Fisheries Management: Progress toward Sustainability
The high volume and diversity of the by-catch of this fishery continue to present fishery operators, managers, and researchers with significant challenges. The Australian Fisheries Management Act 1991 and the Environmental Protection and ...
Tim McClanahan, Juan Carlos Castilla, 2008
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Bottom Trawling and Scallop Dredging in the Arctic: Impacts ...
E. Guijarro Garcia 3.2.1 Introduction The shrimp fisheries worldwide are responsible for the largest percentage of total by-catch. Alverson et al. (1994) estimated that shrimp fishing generated 11.2 million tonnes of the annual 27 million tonnes ...
Elena Guijarro Garcia, 2007
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Fish and Diadromy in Europe (ecology, management, ...
Data were obtained from all monitored fishing sites and at different dates Variables: B, Glass eel and by-catch fish biomass; D, discard ratio; MT, total discard mortality; MH, mortality of fish due to fish trap handling; MS, by-catch mortality of ...
Sylvie Dufour, Etienne Prevost, Eric Rochard, 2008
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State of Working Fisheries and Aquaculture, 1996
BOX 20 By-catch and discards in Malaysian shrimp fisheries Shrimp trawl by- catch in Malaysia generally includes finfish, cephalopods, shells and other less- valued crustaceans. Although most of the by-catch that can be marketed as food is ...
‎1997
8
Fisheries Management in Australia
strategies to reduce fisheries by-catch. The effects of by-catch in a given fishery include mortality levels which represent a threat to a species population, changes to marine food webs, and/or significant future loses in production in the fishery or  ...
Daryl McPhee, 2008
9
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review
Monitoring of UK and Irish bottom-set gill net fleets operating in the Celtic Sea targeting hake (pollack, Pollachius pollachius, and other gadoids were also caught) between 1992 and 1994 indicated a by-catch rate of 1.4 dolphins per 1000 km ...
R. N. Hughes, D. J. Hughes, I. P. Smith, 2013
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Twenty-fifth Report: Turning the Tide : Addressing the ...
5.15 Cetaceans: On a global scale, by-catch in fishing gears is believed to be the biggest single threat to cetacean populations. Extrapolation of US figures suggests a global annual cetacean by-catch rate of 65,000 to 85,000 animals with at ...
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Sir Tom Blundell, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BY-CATCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term by-catch is used in the context of the following news items.
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Russia bans wildlife-killing driftnets
In BirdLife's recent global gillnet review, the region was highlighted as having the highest seabird by-catch in gillnets, with an estimated ... «Bird Watch, Jul 15»
2
Marine reserves may go begging under Sea Change
There was good discussion including around reducing seabird by-catch from commercial fishing, and protecting Bryde'swhales from ship strike, ... «Auckland stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
The Swordfish: Deep ocean dweller
Not only were the targeted species, swordfish and tuna, being over-exploited, but the by-catch of non-targeted species of billfish, sharks, turtles ... «Cayman Compass, Jul 15»
4
Maximizing value from the blue economy: Seychelles entrepreneur …
James Lesperance of Amirante Fisheries has come up with a good way to ensure that by-catch from the tuna canning industry does not go to ... «Seychelles News Agency, Jul 15»
5
Doubling Down on Shark Conservation as Jaws Turns 40
Through directed fishing, by-catch, surging demand for shark and ray products, and misaligned incentives, the world's shark and ray ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
6
Jersey Shore Fishing: First bonito & limits of pee wees
... a limit this week up to 6 1/2 pounds, and Ray Bryant from South Orange had a 6-pound pool-winning fluke plus a by-catch limit of sea bass. «NJ.com, Jul 15»
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Book review: 'Project Puffin' explores complicated return of Maine …
All three creatures have had to be rescued from past human assaults in Maine, but only puffins were extirpated, mostly as by-catch from the ... «Press Herald, Jul 15»
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Sharks and giant eels on 'Born to be Wild'
But sometimes, they reel in unintended by-catch such as sharks. But apart from by-catch, commercial scale harvesting of sharks for their fins ... «GMA News, Jul 15»
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Jersey Shore Fishing: Haertel finds more & bigger cod in Jersey …
... disappeared from N.J. waters a few decades ago, but now are common enough that sea bass anglers caught them regularly as by-catch this ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
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Neither Here Nor There
... fast hauls, yielding enormous gross numbers, leaving only an average net intake once the massive waste of discarded by-catch is subtracted. «Gander Beacon, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. By-Catch [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/by-catch>. May 2024 ».
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