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Dan Sullivan

65:48 - 66:46

“one was addressing the issue of trawl bycatch, something I've been working on for a number of years because so many Alaskans care deeply about this. So that was why last year we introduced the Bycatch Reduction Act, which does all kinds of things. It's a very comprehensive bill that improves our fisheries in the North Pacific to address these salmon run challenges. To address the issue of trawl bycatch, to uphold healthy marine habitats, to dramatically limit bottom contact by trawler nets in the North Pacific, to provide timelines and mandates to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, to provide transparency and reforms to the council process, investments in innovative gear and technology, and to strengthen and modernize moderning, monitoring.”
Speaker
Dan Sullivan
Timestamp
65:48 – 66:46
Transcript
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Sullivan): Business meeting to consider S.3467, to reauthorize the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, S.3929, to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to acquire and install certified airborne position reference tools at air traffic control towers, S.4573, to designate the Great Lakes Commission as a Regional Great Lakes Partnership, S.4749, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to create a Federal cause of action to address jawboning, S.4938, 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, S.4950, to amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to codify the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an initiative to support the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies, S.5188, to amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to establish requirements for unified boxing organizations and to further enhance the well-being of professional boxers, S.5224, to improve training for airport drivers in the movement area at commercial service airports through the establishment of a task force and the use of technology, H.R.7022, to provide for the transmission of emergency alerts by satellite, and promotions in the Coast Guard.
Community
Alaska News
Location
Alaska
Captured at
September 16, 2026

From the transcript

The Salmon Task Force Act, which had, again, the best minds in Alaska, uh, put forward a report working with the federal government, working with our Native communities that highlighted recommendations on areas of increased investment and policy recommendations to move forward on addressing these salmon declines and huge variabilities in our salmon runs. There were many recommendations on that, research recommendations, policy recommendations, but one was addressing the issue of trawl bycatch, something I've been working on for a number of years because so many Alaskans care deeply about this. So that was why last year we introduced the Bycatch Reduction Act, which does all kinds of things. It's a very comprehensive bill that improves our fisheries in the North Pacific to address these salmon run challenges. To address the issue of trawl bycatch, to uphold healthy marine habitats, to dramatically limit bottom contact by trawler nets in the North Pacific, to provide timelines and mandates to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, to provide transparency and reforms to the council process, investments in innovative gear and technology, and to strengthen and modernize moderning, monitoring.

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