Cooperative Agreement NA19NMF4720212

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will receive $828,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Pacific Fisheries Data Program (CFDA 11.437) from March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024. The Department will conduct field research on Bering Sea red king crab to understand seasonal movements and population distributions in Bristol Bay. This will involve tagging and surveying red king crab to provide updated data to inform the North...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5 million under the Pacific Fisheries Data Program to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for the Bering Sea Crab Research XXI project. The project will support research, data collection, and distribution activities through June 2023 to provide fishery managers with information needed to sustainably manage commercial crab fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands consistent with state and federal regulations. As the primary...

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...

The Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers were awarded a $703,203 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427). The grant will fund the production of marketing materials to educate consumers about the sustainable management of Bering Sea crab fisheries and combat misinformation that negatively impacts public perception. Key deliverables include a...

This $386,590 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support Puget Buoy LLC's project to evaluate pop-up buoy technology as an alternative crab fishing gear. The funding will allow Puget Buoy to test 150 of its pop-up buoy units on five commercial Dungeness crab fishing vessels in California state fisheries from August 1, 2022 through January 31, 2024. Key tasks include collecting data on performance indicators such as...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was awarded an $804,949 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Pacific Fisheries Data Program (CFDA 11.437) to conduct Bering Sea crab research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. This grant supports the department's efforts to enhance fisheries data collection and analysis in Alaska to meet coastwide and insular area fisheries management needs as outlined under the Pacific Fisheries Data Program. Specifically,...

This $2,750,000 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CFDA 11.469 Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects) supports research by the Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation to improve understanding of two economically critical Bering Sea crab stocks that are experiencing sharp declines or fishery closures. The 4-year grant, running from August 2023 to July 2027, aims to fill high priority information gaps on seasonal crab population...

Crab Raft Inc. received a $399,828 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop ropeless gear for commercial lobster/crabbing and other fishing industries. The two-year award runs from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2023 and will support the manufacture of ropeless technology that eliminates vertical lines in fishing operations. The NOAA SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation...

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...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Sub Sea Sonics, LLC $399,168 under the Unallied Science Program cooperative agreement to demonstrate that ropeless fishing can be conducted at a scale representative of typical fishing operations while reducing risks to marine mammals. The work will involve establishing a pathway for large-scale adoption of ropeless fishing among Dungeness crab fishers in California through outreach, equipment provision, training, and at-sea trials. Sub...