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Glossary item | 12 February 2018

Bycatch

Bioeconomy

The inadvertent catch of organisms that were not specifically targeted by a fishing operation (for example, non-target fish species, marine mammals, seabirds) that are either discarded (see “discards”) or landed for commercial sale.