Sea turtle escaping a net equipped with turtle excluder device.
2020 Funded Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program Projects
Descriptions of projects funded in Fiscal Year 2020.
Northeast
Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation $196,256
Piloting a Low-Bycatch Commercial Squid Jig Fishery in Southern New England
LobsterLift, LLC $199,995
The Development and Testing of a Ropeless System to Reduce Marine Mammal Entanglement on the Atlantic Coast
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology $119,890
Post-release mortality in recreationally-caught shortfin mako sharks: understanding the effects of capture, handling techniques, and retained gear
Southeast
University of Mississippi $156,193
Acoustic Enumeration of Sea Turtle Impacts on Turtle Excluder Devices
Mote Marine Laboratory $175,433
Application and Advancement of Innovative Technologies for Electronic Monitoring (EM) in Support of Best Fishing Practices for the Commercial Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Snapper Grouper Fishery - Phase II
West Coast
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission $185,389
Testing a Flexigrid system to reduce bycatch of juvenile sablefish in the West Coast groundfish bottom trawl fishery: An international collaboration
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission $174,750
Reducing seafloor and benthic macroinvertebrate impacts using semi-pelagic trawl technology to harvest U.S. West Coast demersal groundfishes
Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society $231,824
Fishing and Testing of Innovative Ropeless Lift Bag Fishing Systems
Alaska
Alaska Department of Fish and Game $212,052
Preserving catch of salmon troll fishermen while reducing interactions with Steller sea lions: targeted acoustic startle technology to deter Steller sea lions from troll gear in SE Alaska
Natural Resources Consultants, Inc $81,769
Refining Gear Modifications to Avoid Red King and Snow Crab Bycatch in Bering Sea Pacific Cod and Halibut Pot Fisheries
Pacific Islands
Scripps Institution of Oceanography $247,934
Foraging Behavior of False Killer Whales in Relation to Oceanography and Prey: Informing By-Catch Mitigation for Near-Shore Fisheries around the Main Hawaiian Island
International
SUBMON $161,256
Improving the understanding of decompression sickness and its post-release impact in marine turtles incidentally captured by trawl fisheries
Thünen-Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries $199,275
Reaction of small cetaceans to an acoustically enhanced gillnet and its application to reduce their bycatch
Sea turtle escaping a net equipped with turtle excluder device.