Bycatch

Pacific leatherbacks face significant threats from entanglement and/or hooking in fisheries (bycatch), direct harvest - including eggs and adults - coastal development, pollution, marine debris, disease and climate change.

Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.

Some offer him bags of bycatch—fish too small or net-mangled to sell, rays and seahorses few will want, and so on.