Project Grant 201538424240301

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) provides $1,837,767 to Pacific Hybreed Inc.'s Research & Development Division to develop a breeding program for Manila clams. The key products and services delivered under this 2-year grant include: Producing 26 distinct Manila clam families and evaluating their on-farm performance to identify superior female-biased and triploid lines....

This two-year, $599,998 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) will examine the reproductive output of softshell clams in three regions of the Maine coast. The Downeast Institute For Applied Marine Research and Education, Inc. will measure spatial and temporal variability in reproductive output for softshell clams of varying sizes placed...

The Lummi Indian Business Council (Lummi Tribe) received a $200,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program. The grant funds will be used to initiate a monitoring program for pinniped (seal and sea lion) populations and their impacts on salmonid stocks native to the Nooksack River in northwest Washington. The key goals of the project are to: 1) design and launch the first pinniped monitoring plan...

The Lummi Indian Business Council was awarded a $981,120 Cooperative Agreement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 11.463). The 3-year project will build capacity and conduct science to support habitat restoration in the 10,000-acre Lummi Reservation tidelands, which provide critical habitat for oysters, clams, crabs, and salmon. The project will create employment and training opportunities focused on protecting...

The U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1.3M Project Grant under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division to increase the resilience of the seafood industry to climate change and improve U.S. food security. The interdisciplinary team of URI scientists will work with the seafood industry and other institutions to accelerate selective breeding...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $103,519 will support collaborative research by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from August 2022 to July 2025 to reconstruct bottom water temperatures on the Middle Atlantic continental shelf over the past 5,000 years using living and fossil shells of Atlantic surfclams and ocean quahogs. The grant aims to develop spatial-temporal reconstructions of bottom water temperatures to further...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $669,936 Project Grant to the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education, Inc. (DEI) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469). This funding supports DEI's marine research activities focused on enhancing fisheries production through sustaining wild shellfish harvests and developing new shellfish aquaculture opportunities. Specifically, the grant enables DEI to increase...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $389,994 cooperative agreement to the University of Washington under the Sea Grant Support federal grant program (CFDA 11.417) from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The award will support research investigating methods to improve stability in U.S. commercial and recreational fisheries through management strategy evaluation and simulation modeling. Specifically, the University of Washington will explore how management strategies can...

The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded a $245,116 Cooperative Agreement to the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) on September 5, 2023. The funding supports WDFW's marbled murrelet diet surveys, which will be completed by March 31, 2025. WDFW has a long history of collaborating with federal agencies to provide a range of environmental services, from fish and wildlife management to habitat...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to determine the impacts of diatom-derived polyunsaturated aldehydes (PUAs) on the embryonic and larval development of ecologically and economically important forage fish species in the North Pacific ecosystem. The $638,888 award to Western Washington University will fund field surveys to quantify the prevalence of PUA-producing diatoms in the Salish Sea, as well as laboratory...