Cooperative Agreement NA14NMF4720315

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) aims to develop a Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD) Performance Indicator (BPI) to evaluate and compare BRDs used in the Bering Sea Pacific cod bottom trawl fishery. The award will also evaluate the effect of artificial light (used as a BRD) placed at the trawl mouth on Pacific halibut and Pacific cod catch through field trials, and...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $644,000 Project Grant to Oceans Initiative under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469). The grant will fund the development of a Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology system to reduce predation on endangered Chinook salmon in the Cedar River migration route. The primary goal is to create a non-lethal tool that decreases predation by pinnipeds, thereby increasing survival of Chinook salmon. Chinook...

This cooperative agreement award of $299,100 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks to identify methods for protecting fish catches from whale depredation and develop low-cost protective designs that can be deployed using current longline fishing techniques. The International Pacific Halibut Commission will conduct a workshop with industry stakeholders to identify the top two or three catch protection designs. Functional prototypes of the selected...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), provides $817,777 to Marinesitu Inc., a small disadvantaged business division of the University of Washington. The goal is to advance fish passage monitoring capabilities by developing and testing machine learning models and stereo-camera hardware systems for automated detection, tracking, and...

This $335,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) supports dockside monitoring of non-tribal commercial troll and recreational salmon fisheries off the Washington coast. The key objectives are to: Collect catch and effort data to generate in-season and post-season catch estimates with less than 10% coefficient of variation for all commercial and recreational...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) provides $758,500.00 to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) to maintain or increase coded-wire-tag sampling rates for Chinook salmon caught in commercial fisheries in Southeast Alaska. The objective is to achieve a 20% or higher sampling rate each statistical week, gear, and strata. This will help sustain the...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438), provides $682,107 to mitigate the economic impacts of reduced Chinook salmon harvests in Southeast Alaska. The key activities include: hatchery fish marking, tagging, and evaluation; hatchery enhancement projects; and hatchery research. The prime recipient, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, is...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife a $4.476 million Project Grant under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438). The grant will fund the replacement of manual fish marking trailers with an automated fish marking system to ensure that approximately 100 million hatchery-produced salmon and steelhead produced annually by WDFW are properly adipose fin clipped as required by state...

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...

This federal Project Grant award of $202,280 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) supports a comprehensive review and improvement of current stock assessment methods and estimates for Nooksack spring Chinook salmon in Washington State. The key objectives of this grant are to: Assess current escapement methodologies, including carcass recovery expansions, redd expansions, and...