Project Grant NA21NMF4540494

This is a $214,738 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605). The grant supports the continuation of an annual survey of juvenile (young-of-year) striped bass in the major Virginia nursery areas of the Chesapeake Bay, including the James, York, and Rappahannock drainages. The survey uses standardized sampling methods to assess striped bass recruitment, which is a key element in the management of this important...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded July 15, 2026, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Research Program (CFDA 11.472), provides $243,797 to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission to test recompression methodologies for improving survival rates of rockfish caught via commercial longline fishing. The project will evaluate two distinct recompression approaches: (1) a vessel-mounted downrigger system using weighted SeaQualizer descending...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $550,466 Formula Grant under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) for the Oregon Ocean Recreational Fishery Survey Project. This project expands fishery and biological databases for important groundfish species and informs the public about various aspects of the Oregon marine recreational fishery. ODFW will conduct sampling of recreational anglers at...

This $252,421 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program supports research and monitoring activities focused on the sustainability of striped bass populations in Virginia. The key products and services delivered through this one-year award, which began on December 1, 2024, include: Monitoring the abundance, size, and sex of striped bass on the Virginia spawning grounds during the spring spawning season through...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $157,897 cooperative agreement to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) from August 1, 2021 to January 31, 2023. The agreement supports testing of modified circle hooks to reduce yelloweye rockfish bycatch in the West Coast directed Pacific halibut longline fishery. The Unallied Science Program provides grants and cooperative agreements for biological, socio-economic and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded $173,541.45 under the Sport Fish Restoration Formula Grant program (CFDA 15.605) to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The funding supports estimation of juvenile striped bass relative abundance in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay. A sub-award of $173,541.45 was provided to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to conduct field sampling and data...

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission received a $303,072 Sport Fish Restoration (CFDA 15.605) formula grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5, awarded November 1, 2025, with completion by September 30, 2028. This continuing study delivers fisheries monitoring and stock assessment services focused on American shad (Alosa sapidissima), river herring (A. pseudoharengus and A. aestivalis), and hickory shad (A. mediocris) populations across Virginia's three major Chesapeake Bay...

Summary of Federal Project Grant Award The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi $349,684 under the Marine Fisheries Initiative (CFDA 11.433) on September 1, 2025, for a three-year project (completion August 31, 2028) to develop epigenetic clocks for three commercially and recreationally important reef fish species: golden tilefish, vermilion snapper, and yellowedge grouper. The primary deliverable is the creation of DNA...

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission received a $599,676 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the Sport Fish Restoration federal grant program (CFDA 15.605). The award funded an estimating of relative juvenile abundance of important finfishes in Virginia's portion of Chesapeake Bay from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. As part of the award, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science conducted a juvenile trawl survey to restore,...

The Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife received a $224,667 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enter 2022 return year Puget Sound and coastal Washington Chinook salmon scale ages, coded wire tag recovery information, and biological data into a centralized age database. This work will be carried out from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA #11.438), which provides...