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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Chicago
U.S. Congress. House. Bycatch Reduction Act. H.R. 9953. 119th
Cong., 2nd
sess., Introduced in House July 27, 2026. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-119hr9953ih.
APA
Congress, House of Representatives (2026, July 27). Bycatch Reduction Act (H.R. 9953 (IH)). Retrieved from https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-119hr9953ih.
MLA
United States, Congress, House of Representatives. Bycatch Reduction Act. U.S. Government Publishing Office, https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-119hr9953ih. 119th Congress, H.R. 9953, Introduced in House 27 Jul. 2026.
