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countable and uncountable, plural bycatches
Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea. quotations examples
Some offer him bags of bycatch—fish too small or net-mangled to sell, rays and seahorses few will want, and so on.
2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 107
Any person, animal, or thing, captured unintentionally on camera or film. examples
third-person singular simple present bycatches, present participle bycatching, simple past and past participle bycaught
(transitive) To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else. examples