NOAA Awards Grants to Support Bycatch Reduction

Filed in Marine Biology, Policy on August 29, 2012 with no comments

NOAA Fisheries Service recently announced that it has awarded 14 grants worth nearly 2.5 million dollars under the Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP).

All grants from the BREP support critical research and development of new methods to prevent and reduce bycatch.  The new grants cover many speices, including seabirds, whales, sharks and more.

You can read more about bycatch and the recently awarded grants here: Funding Innovative Research and Partnerships to Reduce Bycatch.

Loggerhead Turtle escaping a net equipped with turtle excluder device (TED).

Loggerhead Turtle escaping a net equipped with turtle excluder device (TED). Photo credit: NOAA.

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