Commercial fishing in the Valdez, Alaska harbor.
Carrie Selberg Robinson (front row, right) at groundbreaking ceremony for Herring River Restoration Project in Cape Cod, MA.
2017 Funded Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program Projects
Descriptions of the BREP projects funded in FY 2017.
Northeast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Coonamessett Farm Foundation | Testing selectivity and raised webbing gillnets on target and non-target species in the northeast haddock fishery | $177,798.00 |
| Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute | Developing and testing a pelagic species distribution model to forecast river herring bycatch hot spots | $116,789.00 |
| Coonamessett Farm Foundation | Improving the understanding of sea turtle entanglement in vertical lines | $168,803.00 |
| Coonamessett Farm Foundation | A nodified foot sweep for bycatch reduction in the limited access scallop fishery | $130,400.00 |
| New England Aquarium | Closing data gaps on discard mortality and tactical capture and handling practices to reduce mortality in the Gulf of Maine recreational groundfish fishery | $142,686.00 |
| University of New England | Determining the discard mortality rate and best capture and handing methods for Atlantic cod captured in the Gulf of Maine lobster industry | $37,976.00 |
Southeast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| University of Mississippi | Application of a new bycatch reduction device for use in the U.S. shrimp industry | $82,121.00 |
| FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | Evaluation of alternative fishing technology and strategies to increase yield in the Florida spiny lobster fishery | $81,480.00 |
| Marine Resources Research Institute, SC Dept. of Natural Resources | Post-release mortality of adult red drum caught by recreational anglers | $193,320.00 |
| Gettysburg College | Developing and testing a multi-sensory bycatch reduction strategy to reduce sea turtle bycatch in gillnet and pound net fisheries | $169,969.00 |
West Coast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research | Developing radio and satellite smart buoys to reduce bycatch | $121,192.00 |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | Minimizing seafloor and benthic macroinvertebrate impacts: An evaluation of elevated sweeps on a west coast groundfish bottom trawl | $145,900.00 |
| Wild Fish Conservancy | Evaluation of pound nets as stock-selective fishing tools in the lower Columbia River Basin | $158,769.00 |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | Measuring the overall effectiveness of LED lights to reduce eulachon and darkblotched rockfish bycatch in the ocean shrimp trawl fishery | $116,353.00 |
| Oregon State University | Uncovering blind spots: Novel methods to assess fine-scale seabird-fisheries overlap to prioritize conservation management | $73,051.00 |
Pacific Islands |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| University of Hawaii | Assessing the efficacy of current and potential conservation and management measures for reducing mortality in a threatened shark species | $170,456.00 |
| University of Hawaii | Habitat use, movement behavior, and residency of oceanic whitetip sharks found in association with fish aggregating devices in Hawaii | $118,524.00 |
| Duke University | Developing rules to reduce the targeting and bycatch of toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises in pelagic longline fisheries | $119,804.00 |
Commercial fishing in the Valdez, Alaska harbor.
Carrie Selberg Robinson (front row, right) at groundbreaking ceremony for Herring River Restoration Project in Cape Cod, MA.