# National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) - FY2025

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/noaa-nmfs-fhq-2025-28846-national-bycatch-reduction-engineering-program-brep-fy2025/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356668

> DOC NOAA - ERA Production offered grants of up to $350,000 (at least $50,000) to the applicants described in the notice. Applications closed on March 21, 2025.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | NOAA-NMFS-FHQ-2025-28846 |
| Agency | DOC NOAA - ERA Production |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | March 21, 2025 |
| Award ceiling | $350,000 |
| Award floor | $50,000 |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | not stated |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 11.427 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants are individuals, institutions of higher education, other nonprofits, for-profit organizations, foreign public entities or foreign organizations, and state, local, U.S.territorial, Alaska Native, and Indian tribal governments. Federal agencies or instrumentalities are not eligible to receive Federal assistance under this notice.

## What the grant funds

The mission of the National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) is to support the development of technological solutions and changes in fishing practices designed to minimize bycatch of fish and protected species (including Endangered Species Act-listed fish, marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles) and to reduce impacts to invertebrates (including sponges, deep-sea corals, and shallow (tropical) corals.) In addition, BREP may support projects that pursue ways to minimize mortality and injury of bycaught species (including post-release injury and mortality). Projects should produce outcomes that can directly influence management needs of federally managed living marine resources.

## Questions people ask

### Is NOAA-NMFS-FHQ-2025-28846 still open?

No. It closed on March 21, 2025. A newer notice is open: NOAA-NMFS-FHQ-2027-33398, closes January 22, 2027 (76 days left).

### Who can apply for National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) - FY2025?

DOC NOAA - ERA Production accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) - FY2025?

Closed March 21, 2025. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $350,000 each.

### Who has won Saltonstall Kennedy Program grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Virginia Institute of Marine Science, University of Maine System, University of Hawaii. The program made 141 awards worth $38.7 million in that time.