U.S. Senate · 119th Congress · S. 4938

Bycatch Reduction Act

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.

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Sponsor
Dan SullivanR-AK
Introduced
June 24, 2026, in the Senate
Issue areas
Policy area
Public Lands and Natural Resources (from the Congressional Research Service)
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