Cooperative Agreement M20AC00006

This $146,131.00 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (CFDA 11.474) supports a pilot observer program and data collection study for the gillnet fishery occurring within Rhode Island state waters. The main objectives are to continue operation of the pilot observer program, collect valuable data including discard data of important target species and gillnet effort data to better...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) awarded a $582,778 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to conduct a field study on the behavioral and physiological effects of pile driving from offshore renewable energy construction on key Atlantic fisheries species. The three-year project, spanning December 2023 to December 2026, will provide data and analysis to support BOEM's marine environmental assessments and decision-making related to offshore energy...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $304,255 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) supports a two-year project under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) to study the impact of offshore wind farm noise on American lobster. The project will gather data on lobster physiology and behavior in response to anthropogenic noise from offshore wind development. Key activities include deploying hydrophones on commercial lobster traps in control and...

This Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act program (CFDA 11.474), provides $189,162 to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. The funding will support technical assistance to Rhode Island seafood dealers to maintain electronic reporting to the Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System, as required by state law. It will also fund...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management received a $118,805 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to implement the Research Fleet Approach for improved fishery-dependent data collection of channeled whelk and knobbed whelk in Southern New England. The grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 through the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act program, with project completion expected by July 31, 2023. Under this award, RIDEM will...

This $210,027 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) funds research by Oregon State University (OSU) to evaluate the economic impact of U.S. offshore wind farm (OWF) deployment on fisheries. The project will quantify OWF-induced changes in fishery revenues, contrast predicted and actual fishing patterns pre- and post-OWF construction, and model anticipated impacts on the West Coast. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) provides $1,087,000.00 to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct a fisheries vulnerability assessment on the impacts of floating offshore wind (FOSW) development in Oregon. The key objectives are to: 1) Assess how FOSW development will impact key Oregon fisheries and the commercial fishing communities that rely on them, 2)...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) will provide $500,000 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025 to The Fishing Partnership Health Plan Corporation. The project will establish a regional, collaborative training framework to provide young fishermen in New England with vocational training as they enter the fishing industry, develop into competent deckhands, and...

Field Data Services LLC will conduct a $297,032 technical feasibility study under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Department of Commerce. The study aims to determine the commercial viability of a new solid state lidar sensor chip for detecting migrating anadromous fish in small spawning streams. Field Data Services will build an automated test system to characterize the lidar's ability to detect...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Sustainable Seas Technology Inc. a $599,998 two-year Project Grant under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427). The grant will support testing of subsea buoy retrieval systems in three Southeastern states to provide a detailed performance analysis and economic effectiveness evaluation of ropeless fishing gear configurations. Project partners will test...