The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $5,512,978 Cooperative Agreement to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) under the Regional Fishery Management Councils Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.441). The five-year award, effective January 1, 2025, will support the MAFMC's participation in fishery management plan development, amendments, and monitoring activities for the 64 species it currently manages under seven Fishery Management Plans (FMPs). The...
The New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) was awarded a $6,371,281 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Regional Fishery Management Councils program (CFDA 11.441). Over the five-year project period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, the NEFMC will participate in fishery management plan development, amendments, and monitoring activities for the 29 species and 41 separate stocks it currently manages under 9 Fishery...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a 5-year, $5,386,647 Cooperative Agreement to the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) under the Regional Fishery Management Councils federal grant program (CFDA 11.441). This funding will support PFMC in developing, implementing, and monitoring fishery management plans for domestic and foreign fishing within the 200-mile U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. Key activities include comprehensive marine ecosystem research,...
This $358,499 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research to understand the impact of warming on the structure and function of marine communities in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf region, including the Gulf of Maine and Mid-Atlantic Bight. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through its Office of Sponsored Research, will characterize the composition and features of plankton and fish...
This $128,483 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) will fund a two-year project at the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The project aims to investigate how commercial fishing effort diversifies across fisheries in the U.S. Pacific and North Pacific regions in response to climate change. The research will focus on understanding diversification along...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417), supports research to evaluate the impacts of changing ocean conditions driven by climate change and ocean acidification on the Atlantic sea scallop fishery. The $124,931 award to the University of Connecticut will integrate existing data and modeling tools, including annual stock assessment surveys, physiological lab data, oceanographic...
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) was awarded a $2,287,474 Cooperative Agreement under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Regional Fishery Management Councils program (CFDA 11.441). The grant will fund the development, implementation, and monitoring of fishery management plans within the 200-mile U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone off the southeastern coast. Key activities will include comprehensive marine ecosystem research, fishery data collection,...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $2,980,493 Cooperative Agreement to the Caribbean Fishery Management Council (CFMC) under the Regional Fishery Management Councils program (CFDA 11.441). The funding supports the CFMC's efforts to create, monitor, and revise fishery management plans and data collection programs for domestic and foreign fishing within the 200-mile U.S. Caribbean Exclusive Economic Zone from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2028. Key activities...
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...
This $1,793,583 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research on the dynamics of socio-environmental factors driving resilience of coastal fisheries in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. The primary awardee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, will integrate data and analyses across disciplines to determine the feedbacks between fish ecology, climate, human behavior, and policy in the recreational and...