Project Grant NA20NMF4270174

This $162,560 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service through the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) will fund planning for a maritime collective facility in California. The collective aims to support local and regional seafood producers through cold storage, processing, and educational programs. It will provide infrastructure and services to help seafood harvesters gain more control over market entry, diversify...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $622,994 Project Grant to Wild Local Seafood CO. LLC under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will support Wild Local Seafood's participation in local and regional seafood markets in Southern California by facilitating seafood producers' access to farmers markets in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties through 2024. Specifically, Wild Local Seafood buys seafood from fishers at higher...

This $239,429 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) aims to expand marketing networks and sales of fresh, locally caught pelagic fish species in Hawaii. The project involves a collaboration between a wholesale distributor of locally caught pelagic fish, college culinary arts chefs, and high school culinary arts instructors....

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $292,752 Project Grant under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) to the Cornell Cooperative Extension Association Of Suffolk County, doing business as CCE Suffolk, to promote local seafood consumption in New York. The project will utilize an established network to magnify consumer and supplier commitment to local seafood, conduct 50 cooking...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $299,148 Project Grant to the American Albacore Fishing Association, Inc. under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427). The overall goal of this 2-year project is to modernize the data collection and throughput of North Pacific Albacore (NPA) data by developing and implementing an electronic logbook (eLogbook) system, with the...

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...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427), will explore the feasibility of establishing a market for Magister squid (Berryteuthis magister) in Alaska. The $230,000 award, with a performance period of Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2025, will be used to investigate the potential domestic and international market...

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...

The Yankee Fishermen's Cooperative will receive $772,753.40 through September 2024 under a Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The Cooperative will work with New Hampshire Community Seafood to address the aging commercial fishing workforce in New England through expanding regional market access and increasing the viability of fishing businesses that serve local markets. Key initiatives include...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $170,000 Project Grant to Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Inc. under the Unallied Management Projects program (CFDA 11.454). The two-year award running from September 2021 through August 2023 will support the organization's "DIVING CATCH 2: SAVING WHITE AND BLACK ABALONE THROUGH CONSERVATION AQUACULTURE" project. This project aims to provide economic, sociological, public policy, and other...