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the ocean's collateral damage, hauled up by accident and thrown back dead.
means marine life caught unintentionally while fishing for something else, then usually discarded.
from from fishing industry jargon, distinguishing the target catch (what you meant to catch) from everything else swept up in the net.
scaleup to 40 percent of global catch is bycatch
victimsdolphins, turtles, sharks routinely die this way
survival ratemost discarded bycatch is already dead