bycatch

noun

Etymology

From by- + catch.

  1. derived from captō
  2. derived from captio
  3. derived from cachier
  4. inherited from cacchen
  5. prefixed as bycatch — “by + catch

Definitions

  1. Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally…

    Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.

    • Some offer him bags of bycatch—fish too small or net-mangled to sell, rays and seahorses few will want, and so on.
  2. Any person, animal, or thing, captured unintentionally on camera or film.

  3. To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bycatch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA