How to Use bycatch in a Sentence

bycatch

noun

• If the bycatch is of legal size – at least 73 inches long – fishers can keep and sell the fish.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 13 Sep. 2020
• Much of the bycatch gets tossed over the side, dead or alive, as required by federal law.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2019
• In some cases, tori lines have reduced the bycatch of seabirds by as much as 98 percent.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• The lights also reduced bycatch of seabirds in gillnets by about 85%.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2021
• Alaska’s pollock fishery used to take in a lot of salmon bycatch.
  — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• Finally, a common outcry has been against the trawl fleet, which does take crab as bycatch in the Bering Sea.
  — Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2022
• Anything caught up in the net that wasn’t the target food species—known as bycatch—gets hauled aboard the ship, often dead, and thrown back overboard.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• To some degree, bycatch is unavoidable, the task force said.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
• If a whale is caught as bycatch, fishermen must report the incident to the Coast Guard.
  — Nicole McLachlan, National Geographic, 16 June 2016
• There is an effort to get more details in bycatch reports, Lowry said.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• That bycatch includes king and chum salmon, crab, halibut, and other species.
  — Outdoor Life, 28 Sep. 2023
• This included the hundreds of redfish that were scooped up as bycatch.
  — Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
• Many believe the rate of bycatch isn’t as high as reported or believed.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• Overall, Cook and Avens say that bycatch and loss of nesting habitat seem to contribute the most harm to sea turtles.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2022
• The reality is that more sharks are caught in U.S. waters as bycatch than on purpose.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• Well, the researchers were surprised to find that the lighted nets almost eliminated bycatch of sharks, skates, and rays!
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• If successful, these devices could be used to reduce seabird bycatch in small- and large-scale gillnet fisheries around the world.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• For many years, both kinds of toothfish were minor bycatch for ships searching the cold southern waters for marbled and gray rock cod.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• The fish pictured in the New Times photograph, Adams said, would likely not have been bycatch by a pompano netter because of its size.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 15 May 2018
• The failed quest to cap the salmon bycatch is part of a broader push by western Alaska tribal governments to gain a bigger voice in the conduct of the Bering Sea fisheries.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
• Farming shrimp also helps with the wild shrimping 80 percent bycatch rate.
  — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• Turtles have been seen ingesting bits of garbage floating out to sea, or getting snared as bycatch in fishing nets.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
• Another issue with wild-shrimp fishing is bycatch, which can range anywhere from two to 10 pounds for every pound of shrimp caught.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• In Alaska waters, much of the fish taken as bycatch is not discarded but donated to food banks.
  — Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017
• Thoothoor fishermen agree with this but say that the reverse is rare; longlines set out for shark fisheries do not result in bycatch of other species.
  — Bhanu Sridharan, Quartz India, 25 Nov. 2019
• The project is working with fishermen and larger fisheries to reduce this bycatch.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Farther offshore, longlines set for swordfish and tuna were catching a lot of makos as bycatch.
  — Capt. John McMurray, Field & Stream, 10 Feb. 2020
• The males that are taken as bycatch and the female carcasses are ground up for meal for foreign fish farms, or simply discarded.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022
• There is emerging scientific consensus among scientists that at-sea bycatch is not the major reason for the crashes.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Hunting and overfishing, whether intentional or as bycatch, can be harmful.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024