noun
The portion of a fishing catch that is discarded as unwanted or commercially unusable.
by-catch
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural bycatches)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present bycatches, present participle bycatching, simple past and past participle bycaught)
- To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.
Origin
From by- + catch.
Noun
(plural by-catches)
- Alternative spelling of bycatch.
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