Question

what is the meaning of the word bycatch in paragraph 5 of the passage?
unrecognizable fish
unwanted fish
endangered fish
targeted fish
reading passage
fastest, and most technologically advanced fishing trawlers wreak havoc as they float along the oceans surface.
5 in addition to depleting the stocks of the target fish, such as tuna, huge fishing trawlers are responsible for the death of other fish, marine mammals, turtles, and birds that get caught in the ships nets and on the hooks. the united nations food and agriculture organization estimates that about one - quarter of all fish caught with nets and hooked fishing lines get thrown out because they are the wrong kind of fish, or what the industry calls bycatch. the fastest way for large commercial operations at sea to deal with bycatch is to discard it.
possible solutions
6 many steps have been taken to deal with the problem of overfishing. as a first step, scientists have researched and documented the problem. using that documented,

Explanation:

The passage states that bycatch is the fish that are the wrong kind, meaning they are unwanted as they are not the target fish. They are caught incidentally and often discarded.

Answer:

B. unwanted fish