119th Congress · Senate bill · Last action Jun 24, 2026
S. 4938In Committee
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.
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan (R-AK)Introduced Jun 24, 2026
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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