Usage examples (33)

• The organisation wants to call attention to the problem of dolphin bycatch in fishing nets and wants to inspire people to adopt endangered dolphins from the north sea.
• They have a high "bycatch" - they trap a large quantity of untargeted species, the majority of which are thrown back, dead or dying, into the sea.
• If you are following the Fish news - you will hear the word "bycatch".
• Meanwhile, whales are sometimes killed as "bycatch", ensnared within fishing nets that target smaller swimmers.