A bill to reduce trawl gear impacts on bycatch and seafloor habitat in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska, to establish gear performance standards, seafloor contact detection, and salmon excluder requirements, to improve Council transparency and participation, to prioritize ecosystem analyses, to modernize electronic monitoring, to prohibit unsustainable foreign seafood imports, and to establish a Bycatch Mitigation and Habitat Protection Assistance Fund.
Sponsor
- Conservative Groups$4,600k
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2026-06-24
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationReferred To · 2026-06-24
Plain-English Summary
This bill would require fishing vessels in Alaska's waters to use equipment that reduces accidental catches of unwanted fish and protects the ocean floor from damage caused by fishing nets, while also setting up a fund to help fishermen transition to these new practices. It would modernize how fishing is monitored using cameras and technology, prevent imports of seafood caught using unsustainable methods, and give the public more say in fishing decisions made by regional councils. These changes would affect commercial fishing companies and workers in Alaska, seafood consumers, and marine ecosystems in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.
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