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.

This bill appears to deal with commercial fishing in waters off Alaska, aiming to reduce the unwanted catching of non-target fish and damage to the ocean floor caused by certain fishing equipment called trawl gear. It would also set new rules for fishing gear performance, increase public participation in fishing management decisions, update electronic monitoring of fishing activities, block imports of foreign seafood considered unsustainable, and create a fund to help with reducing bycatch and protecting ocean habitat. No official summary is available for this bill.

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