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PRECATCH FISHING MORTALITY [1 record]

Record 1 2023-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Statistics
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Precatch loss is [a] type of incidental mortality caused by fishing. Examples of precatch losses include the incidental crushing or smothering of marine organisms that may occur from laying traps or pots or trawling. There have been examples where a predator has eaten a fish caught on a longline ... This can be considered a precatch loss because the animal may not have been consumed by the predator if fishing had not been occurring in the area ...

OBS

pre-catch loss; precatch loss: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • pre-catch losses
  • precatch losses
  • precatch mortality
  • precatch fishing mortality

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Statistique
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

[...] la politique ne s'applique pas, en règle générale, à la mortalité par pêche accidentelle découlant des pertes avant capture [...] (p. ex., les poissons qui s'échappent du filet avant que celui-ci soit remonté et qui meurent des suites de leurs blessures) [...]

OBS

perte avant capture; perte pré-capture : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • pertes avant capture
  • pertes pré-captures

Spanish

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