Cooperative Agreement NA17NMF4720153

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) provides $631,566 to the University of Maine System to continue a biological sampling program. The program will use the samples to estimate age, growth, and stock mixing of Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABFT) in order to improve the assessment and management process for this fishery resource. This may include the adoption of a new management strategy...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $724,657 cooperative agreement to The Ocean Foundation under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The award will support research using acoustic and satellite tagging of Atlantic bluefin tuna to map stock-specific spatial-temporal movements at high resolution in the North Atlantic and assign stock-specific mortality estimates. This work will provide new insights into understanding the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $200,502 Cooperative Agreement under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) to Social And Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), Inc. The purpose of the award is for SEE to plan and conduct a research longline cruise to the Slope Sea area adjacent to the NW Atlantic Canyons. The goal is to target and land an estimated 55 adult Atlantic bluefin tuna in order to conduct biological sampling, including assessing reproductive...

This cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), provides $276,721 to the University of Maine System from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The award supports research on the age, growth, and stock origin of western Atlantic bluefin tuna. As part of the award, the University of Maine Division of Research & Sponsored Programs will analyze otolith chemistry and structure, interpret data, and...

North Carolina State University will receive $372,252 under a three-year Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop a novel stock assessment model for spotted seatrout in North Carolina and Virginia. The model will account for seasonally varying natural mortality rates through integrating a tagging sub-model and estimating time-varying natural mortality. Activities will include developing an integrated seasonal size-structured model with tagging...

This Project Grant award of $321,213 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) will support a research project to evaluate the genomic population structure of Atlantic herring in U.S. and Canadian waters. The project will partner with commercial fishing captains to collect samples from known herring spawning grounds and use low-coverage...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) was awarded a $6,910,276 Cooperative Agreement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472). The project aims to test the feasibility of removing vertical lines in fixed gear fisheries to reduce the risk of large whale entanglement. The project goals are to provide fixed gear fishermen with experience using technologies that reduce protected species risk, assist gear...

This federal Project Grant award of $597,278 was issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427). The funding supports the development of a non-lethal genetic technique to efficiently determine the sex of three commercially and recreationally important fish species: red snapper, gray triggerfish, and gag grouper. The research will be conducted by...

This $101,358 federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) will support research to evaluate the ability of regional MOM6 ocean models to reproduce observed fisheries variability in the Northeast Pacific and Northwest Atlantic regions. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Forcing two marine ecosystem models (BOATS and FEISTY) with hindcasts from the...

The Aifish LLC was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop advanced data analysis tools for electronic monitoring in fisheries management. NOAA's SBIR program supports small businesses in stimulating technological innovation to meet federal research needs. Aifish will provide data analytics software to help fisheries managers efficiently process large volumes of video and sensor data...