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DEFINITION
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Or by-catch. Part of a catch of a fishing unit taken incidentally in addition to the target species towards which fishing effort is directed. Some or all of it may be returned to the sea as discards, usually dead or dying. |
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Modified from FAO (1998): Guidelines for the routine collection of capture fishery data. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap, 382: 113 p.) and Australian Government Publishing Service (1991): Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Groups Final Report – Fisheries, Canberra, 202 p.
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