Cooperative Agreement 90RW0037

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,818,396 Formula Grant to the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605). The grant funds will be used by WDFW to rear and stock approximately 8.1 million (57,502 lbs.) rainbow, brook, brown, cutthroat, kokanee, golden, and tiger trout for release in public waters statewide during July 2023 through June 2024. Additionally, the grant will support...

This $323,325 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will fund a coastal steelhead monitoring project by the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW). The project will conduct opportunistic creel surveys of steelhead fisheries from November through April in rivers along the Washington coast. The funding will support a creel program staffed by a creel lead biologist, two...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $326,965.96 Project Grant under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species (CFDA 15.608) program to the University of Wisconsin System, Accounts Payable Dept. The goal of this multi-year grant, with a performance period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2028, is to use acoustic telemetry to estimate latent mortality of walleye and lake whitefish discarded from commercial and recreational fisheries in the Wisconsin waters of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $208,000 Formula Grant under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). The grant funds will support KDWP's efforts to provide a unique winter fishing experience through the commercial purchase and stocking of harvestable-sized rainbow trout. This will allow KDWP to offer recreational fishing opportunities that would not otherwise be possible without this federal funding. The grant has a...

The Cooperative Agreement award of $104,843 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) supports the Watts Toppin Fish Passage Project. This project, led by the Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council, will improve fish passage through the construction of a roughened channel at the Watts Toppin Irrigation Dam on Williams Creek, a major tributary of the Applegate River in Oregon. The project aims to benefit...

This $457,799 Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will fund a two-year project to conduct cobia and southern flounder stock restoration and applied fishery research in South Carolina. The key activities include hatchery work, angler outreach and collaboration for biological sample collection, and the introduction of novel techniques and tools in stock enhancement to help assess a unique...

This U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Formula Grant award, provided under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605), will fund $681,987 for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to operate the Hagerman and Henry's Lake State Fish Hatcheries. These hatcheries help meet Idaho's recreational fisheries demands by producing over 4.4 million fish annually, supporting approximately 23% of the state's 4.4 million annual angler days. The project aims to maintain...

This $253,394 federal Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will fund the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife to administer and implement lake and stream rehabilitation projects to maintain and improve freshwater fishing opportunities. The proposed projects will work to restore trout fishing and native fish populations across Washington state. The grant period runs from October 1,...

This $1,903,650 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will fund the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's (WDFW) efforts to assess, monitor, and manage anadromous sport fish stocks and recreational fisheries, as well as monitor resident native game sport fish populations statewide. The award will support three primary sub-projects: 1) assessing anadromous sport fish stock status and...

This $626,499 formula grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will provide fishery dependent catch composition data, fishery independent indices of relative abundance, and biological and movement data for striped bass stocks in North Carolina. The data collected will be used to examine long-term demographic trends, improve bycatch estimates, evaluate management measures, and assess habitat usage to...