Project Grant 20193361029781

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $499,198 Project Grant through the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) to the Oyster South Company. The grant will fund a 24-month project to assess and monitor environmental, biological, and management factors impacting oyster production among 20 commercial oyster farms across 9 Southern U.S. states. The project will test the effects of oyster...

Maine Shellfish Developers LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program. The award will support the development of a cost-effective means of culturing large volumes of microalgae for land-based oyster farming through April 2023. The grantee aims to advance microalgae production at scale using spent yeast from breweries as a substrate. The microalgae will be used as feed for oysters farmed on land...

The Maine Shellfish Developers LLC received a $106,500 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The grant funded the purchase of an alternate feed in support of land-based oyster farming. The SBIR/STTR programs aim to stimulate technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds to...

Shellfish Solutions Inc., doing business as Oystertracker, received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop the Tide to Table Traceability and Marketing System. The two-year project will create a traceability and marketing platform to track shellfish from harvest locations through processing and distribution to support sustainable aquaculture and seafood...

The Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services awarded a $249,900 Project Grant on September 20, 2023 to Barrier Island Oyster Co LLC under the Rural Cooperative Development Grants program (CFDA 10.771). The funding will support the startup, expansion, and operational improvement of rural cooperatives and other mutually-owned businesses in South Carolina, with a focus on providing value-added services and assistance to beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers and...

This $500,000 Project Grant award 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) supports efforts to establish bivalve and seaweed aquaculture in Hawaii. Key activities include developing operational protocols and business capacity for the Hilo Aquaculture Pilot Site, the first open-water shellfish/seaweed farm in the state, conducting marketing...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a Cooperative Agreement worth $780,551 to Mississippi State University on June 1, 2026, under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417). The recipient will expand an existing cost-earnings model for oyster aquaculture by collecting production-cost and market-price data nationwide from producers, distributors, and retailers across the Gulf, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts. The project team will integrate this data into two existing...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Ballard Fish & Oyster Co., LLC (operating as Cherrystone Aqua-Farms) received a $307,468 Project Grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants program (CFDA 10.200) beginning September 1, 2025, and concluding August 31, 2027. The award funds a large-scale research initiative to investigate factors affecting hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) survival and growth rates in...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Grow Oyster Reefs LLC received a $1.237 million Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. The project, conducted in Charlottesville, Virginia, focuses on developing a three-dimensional printed metal mold system to mass-produce modular, dry-cast concrete reef tiles designed to restore degraded...

This $599,598 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on September 1, 2023 under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) will expand an existing aquaculture center to produce queen conch juveniles for restoration and sustainable seafood in Puerto Rico. The lead awardee, Florida Atlantic University, will collaborate with the nonprofit subrecipient Conservación...