National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) - FY2026/27
Funds designing and testing fishing gear that reduces bycatch and post-release deaths in US commercial and recreational fisheries.
About
Fish and shrimp nets don't just catch the target species. Untargeted bycatch can drive overfishing, hurt threatened and endangered species, and even force fishery closures — and this program exists to build gear that catches less of what nobody wanted.
The money funds developing and testing technological devices and other conservation-engineering changes that cut bycatch and reduce the deaths of …
Hardware
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