Northeast
|
Grantee
|
Project
|
Funding amount
|
| New England Aquarium |
Identifying bottom trawl bycatch hotspots and capture-and-handling practices to reduce the incidental mortality of an overfished Species of Concern—the Thorny Skate—in the Gulf of Maine. |
$223,924 |
| University of New England |
Determining the post-release mortality rate and best capture-and-handling methods for Atlantic cod discarded in Gulf of Maine lobster industry. |
$249,008 |
| University of New England |
Quantifying and reducing post-release mortality for dusky sharks discarded in the commercial pelagic longline fishery. |
$244,040 |
Southeast
|
| North Carolina Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources |
Technical solutions to reduce bycatch in the North Carolina otter trawl shrimp fishery. |
$98,320 |
| University of Mississippi |
Reducing shark bycatch in commercial and recreational fisheries. |
$107,438 |
Alaska
|
| FishNext Research |
Enabling halibut bycatch reduction by Gulf of Alaska groundfish trawl fisheries: Tools for excluder testing and enhanced bycatch tracking. |
$169,014 |
West Coast
|
| Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research |
Strategic deep-setting for swordfish: Developing an alternative for the CA drift gillnet fishery. |
$118,327 |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission |
Examining the use of artificial illumination to reduce rockfish bycatch in the west coast groundfish bottom trawl flatfish fishery. |
$143,929 |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission |
Modifying trawl selectivity to reduce Chinook salmon bycatch in the Pacific hake fishery. |
$138,412 |
| Hanan and Associates, Inc. |
Testing potential bycatch reduction from deep-set compared to shallow-set pelagic longline fishing targeting swordfish in the California Current. |
$223,800 |
| University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Continued Video, Acoustic, and Accelerometer Deployments on Pelagic and Demersal Longlines, for Observing Interactions with Bycatch Species. |
$250,000 |
Pacific Islands
|
| Cascadia Research Collective |
False killer whale movements in relation to longline fishing activity: assessment of interactions using satellite tag and fisheries data to develop best practices to reduce bycatch. |
$99,922 |
International
|
| Pro Delphinus |
Assessing the effectiveness of net illumination as a multi-taxa bycatch reduction solution. |
$72,750 |
| Ocean Discovery Institute |
Testing acoustic deterrent devices to reduce bycatch of sea turtles in commercial gillnet fisheries. |
$82,000 |
The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Oceanic whitetip shark. Hawaiʻi longline fishermen use leaders to connect weighed branch lines and baited hooks. A new rule prohibits steel wire leaders in the Hawaiʻi deep-set longline fishery, starting May 31, 2022. The rule aims to increase the survival of hooked oceanic whitetip sharks caught as bycatch in the Pacific Islands region. Credit: Andy Mann
NOAA Fisheries staff in the field at a restoration project site in Louisiana. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
A school of lined butterflyfish swim above a shallow coral reef at Kona, Hawaii. Credit: Christine Shepard.