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By Craig Medred<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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November 10, 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When comes the time to call a spade a spade?<\/p>\n

As a reporter, I have for years consciously avoided using the term “bycatch” when referring to the king salmon caught by commercial set netters in Alaska\u2019s Cook Inlet off the mouth of the Kenai River. Bycatch is, as a Kenai radio reporter Catie Quinn points out, “a hot-button word.”<\/p>\n

I’d hate to say I wimped out and used an obsequious phrase — “incidental catch” — to avoid a hot-button word.<\/p>\n

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Ballot initiative to ban commercial Cook Inlet setnets revs up in Alaska<\/a><\/div>\n
Alaska judge rejects setnetters’ bid for additional fishing time in Cook Inlet<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What is bycatch? Here is the generally accepted definition of the term that first began popping up in common usage in the late 1990s:<\/p>\n

“The term “bycatch”<\/a> is usually used for fish caught unintentionally in a fishery while intending to catch other fish. It may however also indicate untargeted catch in other forms of animal harvesting or collecting. Bycatch is of a different species, undersized individuals of the target species, or juveniles of the target species.”<\/p>\n

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