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The term bycatch or incidental catch refers to ________. non-target species that are caught along with commercial species species harvested for industrial purposes species raised in aquaculture settings species caught as part of traditional fisheries krill and other shellfish

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The correct answer is ''non-target species that are caught along with commercial species''

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Bycatch refers to bycatch organisms that are not targeted by the fishery. Occurs inadvertently in fishing gear, all fisheries have some unwanted bycatch. Species with little or no commercial value, juvenile stages, or discarded gravid females of the target species (s) are generally included here. These incidental catches can be marginal when fishing is carried out with selective or very substantial gear, when the gear used indiscriminately catches everything that comes along its route. In marine fisheries, it causes injury or death to mammals, birds, turtles, fish, elasmobranchs, and invertebrates.

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