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.
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Bycatch
Synonyms for "bycatch" (5 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
collateral consequenceincidental catch
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
unintended catchunintended consequence
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6 entriescollateral damagedolphin bycatchsea turtle bycatchseabird bycatchshark bycatchunintended consequence
Collocations
6 entriesbycatch ratedolphin bycatchincidental catchnon target catchsea turtle bycatchseabird bycatch
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesbycatch managementbycatch proportionbycatch rate
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.
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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