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Word: By-catch
Speech Type: Noun
Definition:
the unwanted fish and other marine creatures trapped by commercial fishing nets during fishing for a different species
Short Definition:unwanted fish and other marine creatures trapped by commercial fishing nets during fishing for different species
Examples:- they had been netted as a by-catch but had to be thrown back into the sea dead
- squid fishermen transfer salmon by-catch to boats that supply the black market
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