The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.
2018 Funded Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program Projects
Descriptions of BREP projects funded in FY 2018.
Northeast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| MA Division of Marine Fisheries | Creating a bycatch avoidance tool for cod in the Gulf of Maine recreational fishery | $142,395.00 |
| New England Aquarium | Implementation of emerging technology to estimate and mitigate the post-release mortality rate of prohibited sandbar sharks in a rapidly growing shore-based fishery | $175,854.00 |
| New England Aquarium | Testing a ropeless fishing prototype for eliminating large whale entanglements in pot fishing gear | $226,616.00 |
Southeast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Best fishing practices for the Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery: developing bycatch reduction techniques through refined modeling of electronic monitoring data | $176,545.00 |
| South Carolina Wildlife Federation | Changing recreational fishing practices through outreach to decrease post-release mortality of South Atlantic deep water species | $81,737.00 |
| Duke University | Testing the applicability of sensory-based bycatch reduction technologies to reduce sea turtle bycatch in North Carolina coastal gillnet and pound net fisheries | $189,899.00 |
Alaska |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association | Adapting towed array hydrophones to reduce interactions between sperm whales and longline gear in Alaska | $ 243,798.00 |
West Coast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | Use of LEDs to reduce Pacific halibut catches before trawl entrainment | $151,764.00 |
| Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research | Documenting post-release survival and depth distribution of bigeye thresher sharks caught using linked buoy gear | $91,780.00 |
| Wild Fish Conservancy | Evaluation of pound nets for stock-selective harvest in lower Columbia River spring chinook, summer chinook and shad fisheries | $199,689.00 |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | Identifying the optimal level of artificial illumination necessary to achieve maximum chinook salmon escapement rates out a bycatch reduction device integrated into a Pacific hake mid-water trawl | $144,792.00 |
Pacific Islands |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| University of Hawaii | A community tagging program aimed at reducing mortality to sharks found in association with fish aggregating devices in Hawaii | $59,726.00 |
| University of Hawaii | Illuminating the shark bycatch post-release mortality black box | $227,930.00 |
International |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Newcastle University | Low-cost solutions to cetacean bycatch in gillnet fisheries | $197,536.00 |
The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.