The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.
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 |
The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.