Bycatch Reduction and Research Act of 2025
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill expands a grant, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 2. Research, expands a grant, compliance mandate provision: 3. Flume tank, and reduces a reporting req, compliance mandate, product standard provision: 4. Observer coverage. It relies on compliance mandates, grants, reporting requirements, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Environment, Finance, and Education.
Who Benefits and How
The available clause analysis does not identify a specific beneficiary group.
Who Bears the Burden and How
No clear private burden is identified from the available clause analysis; implementing agencies may still take on administrative work.
Key Provisions
- Expands a grant, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 2. Research.
- Expands a grant, compliance mandate provision: 3. Flume tank.
- Reduces a reporting req, compliance mandate, product standard provision: 4. Observer coverage.
- Reduces a appropriation, compliance mandate, definition change provision: 5.
- Reduces a compliance mandate, definition change provision: 322. Bycatch Mitigation and Habitat Protection Assistance Fund There is established in the general fund of the Treasury of the United States an account to be...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill expands a grant, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 2. Research, expands a grant, compliance mandate provision: 3. Flume tank, and reduces a reporting req, compliance mandate, product standard provision: 4. Observer coverage.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Finance, Education
Primary Purpose
The bill expands a grant, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 2. Research, expands a grant, compliance mandate provision: 3. Flume tank, and reduces a reporting req, compliance mandate, product standard provision: 4. Observer coverage.
Policy Domains
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Sullivan (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "noaa_administrator"
- → Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- "noaa_administrator"
- → Administrator of NOAA
- "noaa_administrator"
- → Administrator of NOAA
- "nmfs_regional_offices"
- → Regional offices of the National Marine Fisheries Service
- "nfwf"
- → National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- "secretary_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
An account in the general fund of the Treasury administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to reduce or mitigate bycatch and reduce marine benthic habitat contact from trawl gear
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Reconstituted membership of the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force with 2 additional academic experts in groundfish ecology and invertebrate ecology
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