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by-catch

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by-catch   (bī'kāch', -kěch')
n.  The portion of a fishing catch that is discarded as unwanted or commercially unusable.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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by-catch

noun
unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species; "thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales are killed as part of the by-catch each year" 
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