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S. 4938 119th Congress Senate

Bycatch Reduction Act

Official title: 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 stan… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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.

Introduced: June 24, 2026 Introduced by: Dan Sullivan Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Sep 16, 2026
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jun 24, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jun 24, 2026
Introduced in Senate
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Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4938: Bycatch Reduction Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4938/
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"S. 4938: Bycatch Reduction Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4938/.
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S. 4938, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4938/.
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[S. 4938: Bycatch Reduction Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4938/)
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