This Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Small Business Innovation Research Program totaling $150,000 will support the development of rapid diagnostic tests for the parasitic infection Amyloodinium ocellatum in fish. Live Advantage Bait, LLC dba Totally Pelagic will utilize next generation approaches to produce highly specific monoclonal antibodies for A. ocellatum dinospores and develop a lateral flow-based rapid diagnostic test. The NOAA SBIR program...
The federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), supports the development of a modified 3-cell split-pond system (SPS) for commercial production of Largemouth Bass (LMB) for the food fish market. The $650,000 award to American Sport Fish Hatchery Management Group LLC aims to optimize stocking densities and feed management strategies to...
The Aifish LLC was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop advanced data analysis tools for electronic monitoring in fisheries management. NOAA's SBIR program supports small businesses in stimulating technological innovation to meet federal research needs. Aifish will provide data analytics software to help fisheries managers efficiently process large volumes of video and sensor...
Field Data Services LLC will conduct a $297,032 technical feasibility study under a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Department of Commerce. The study aims to determine the commercial viability of a new solid state lidar sensor chip for detecting migrating anadromous fish in small spawning streams. Field Data Services will build an automated test system to characterize the lidar's ability to detect...
The $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the development of automated image detection and machine learning systems for aquaculture production by Radmantis LLC. The company aims to pioneer the use of edge computing devices integrated with computer vision and artificial intelligence to autonomously monitor fish farms for early disease detection and permit sorting and handling of fish by...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to Atlantic Fish Corporation. The grant supports the development of a novel hybrid fish nugget product consisting of cultivated fish muscle tissue and plant-based ingredients. The project aims to characterize the molecular composition of the cultivated...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) provides $175,000 to Radmantis LLC, a woman-owned small business, to develop a biometrically-enabled fish assessment system for bluehouse salmon farming. The project aims to create an advanced monitoring system that can reliably and continuously track the phenotypic presentation of individual fish using...
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $647,641 Project Grant under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) to Positively Groundfish, a non-profit organization based in Brookings, Oregon. The 20-month project aims to establish a start-up accelerator program that will entice U.S. domestic entrepreneurs to develop innovative value-added products using West Coast groundfish. The...
Blue Ocean Gear Inc. was awarded a $399,613 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop a smart buoy device to locate ropeless fishing gear from February 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector and strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting federal research and development needs, including commercialization of...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $499,919 Small Business Innovation Research Program project grant to AA Plasma LLC to develop non-equilibrium short-pulsed discharge technology for removal of antibiotics and pathogens from aquacultural water facilities.
The SBIR program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector to meet federal research needs. AA Plasma LLC will use the two-year grant period beginning July 2021 to advance a plasma discharge...
This Project Grant award of $525,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) supports the development and commercialization of a new manufacturing technology for slow-release fish spawning implants. The award recipient, Live Advantage Bait, LLC, aims to establish an improved and more cost-effective process for producing their FDA-indexed spawning aid product, which is used to facilitate captive fish spawning in aquaculture and conservation efforts. The project involves three key research trials: (1) demonstrating the new manufacturing method can produce a stable implant, (2) evaluating target animal safety, and (3) assessing the efficacy of the new implant formulation in fish. Successful completion of these trials will enable Live Advantage Bait to submit an amendment to their existing FDA indexing approvals and commercialize the new spawning aid product. This innovation has the potential to help expand domestic aquaculture and fisheries conservation in the U.S., which currently faces a $17 billion seafood trade deficit with over 90% of consumed seafood imported.