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.
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 |
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.