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.
Source: tatoeba (6604237)
Bycatch
Synonyms for "bycatch" (3 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 12 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- captura accessòria noun (unintended catch)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 混獲 /混获 noun (unintended catch)
Czech
1 entries- vedlejší úlovek noun (unintended catch)
Dutch
1 entries- bijvangst noun (unintended catch)
Finnish
1 entries- sivusaalis noun (unintended catch)
French
2 entries- capture accessoire noun (unintended catch)
- prise accessoire noun (unintended catch)
German
1 entries- Beifang noun (unintended catch)
Japanese
1 entries- 混獲 noun (unintended catch)
Polish
1 entries- przyłów noun (unintended catch)
Portuguese
1 entries- captura acessória noun (unintended catch)
Spanish
1 entries- captura accesoria noun (unintended catch)
Welsh
1 entries- sgîl-ddalfa noun (unintended catch)
Sample sentences
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Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.
Source: tatoeba (11059338)
Some offer him bags of bycatch—fish too small or net-mangled to sell, rays and seahorses few will want, and so on.
Source: wiktionary
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