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Sea Turtle Glossary

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Bycatch

Variations: By-catch

Organisms taken in a fishery that are not the species intended for harvest. After a catch is hauled aboard, the non-commercial marine life–“bycatch”– is culled out and thrown back. Bycatch can be fish with no commercial value, juveniles of marketable species, sea turtles and birds, marine mammals such as seals, dolphins and whales, and many other forms of ocean life.

See also: TED   BRD

Entered by: Michael Coyne
Modified by: Matthew Godfrey
Entered: 2003-09-09 12:27:01
Last modified: 2005-05-07 11:45:27