Sea turtle escaping a net equipped with turtle excluder device.
2020 Funded Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program Projects
Descriptions of projects funded in FY 2020.
Northeast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation |
Piloting a Low-Bycatch Commercial Squid Jig Fishery in Southern New England |
$196,256 |
| LobsterLift, LLC |
The Development and Testing of a Ropeless System to Reduce Marine Mammal Entanglement on the Atlantic Coast |
$199,995 |
| University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology | Post-release mortality in recreationally-caught shortfin mako sharks: understanding the effects of capture, handling techniques, and retained gear | $119,890 |
Southeast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| University of Mississippi | Acoustic Enumeration of Sea Turtle Impacts on TEDs | $156,193 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | 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 | $175,433 |
West Coast |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | Testing a Flexigrid system to reduce bycatch of juvenile sablefish in the West Coast groundfish bottom trawl fishery: An international collaboration | $185,389 |
| Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission | Reducing seafloor and benthic macroinvertebrate impacts using semi-pelagic trawl technology to harvest U.S. West Coast demersal groundfishes | $174,750 |
| Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society | Fishing and Testing of Innovative Ropeless Lift Bag Fishing Systems | $231,824 |
Alaska |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Alaska Department of Fish and Game | 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 | $212,052 |
| Natural Resources Consultants, Inc | Refining Gear Modifications to Avoid Red King and Snow Crab Bycatch in Bering Sea Pacific Cod and Halibut Pot Fisheries | $81,769 |
Pacific Islands |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 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 | $247,934 |
International |
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Grantee |
Project |
Funding amount |
| SUBMON | Improving the understanding of decompression sickness and its post-release impact in marine turtles incidentally captured by trawl fisheries | $161,256 |
| Thünen-Institute for Baltic Sea Fisheries | Reaction of small cetaceans to an acoustically enhanced gillnet and its application to reduce their bycatch | $199,275 |
Sea turtle escaping a net equipped with turtle excluder device.