FY26 Marine Turtle Conservation for Sustainable U.S. Fisheries Grant Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- NOAA-NMFS-PIR-2026-33156
- Agency
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Department of Commerce
- Applications due
- Award size
- $40,000 to $220,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement, Grant
- Categories
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- Environment
- Natural Resources
- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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- For Profit Organizations
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- County Governments
- Small Businesses
- Other
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- City/Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Individuals
- State Governments
- Points of contact
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- Hideyo Hattori hideyo.hattori@noaa.gov (808) 725-5057
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The FY26 Marine Turtle Conservation for Sustainable U.S. Fisheries Grant Program, administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service, solicits competitive grants and cooperative agreements to support the conservation and sustainable management of endangered marine turtles with linkages to the Pacific Islands Region. Eligible applicants include for-profit organizations, nonprofits, tribal organizations, government entities, small businesses, and individuals. Projects must address one of three priorities: monitoring and protecting western Pacific leatherback sea turtles in the Coral Triangle region; monitoring North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles in Japan; or building research and monitoring capacity for endangered marine turtle populations in international waters. All projects must comply with Endangered Species Act recovery obligations and demonstrate possession of or capacity to acquire CITES export permits for international work. Applications will be evaluated on five criteria: importance and relevance (25 points), technical and scientific merit (25 points), applicant qualifications (15 points), project costs (25 points), and outreach and education (10 points). The submission deadline is June 30, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time through Grants.gov, with an anticipated project start date of October 1, 2026.
The program will distribute approximately $700,000 in total annual funding across four to six awards distributed among three priority areas: Priority 1 will receive one to four awards ranging from $50,000 to $220,000 annually; Priority 2 will receive one to two awards ranging from $40,000 to $85,000 annually; and Priority 3 will receive one to two awards ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 annually. Applicants may request up to three years of funding in 12-month increments, contingent on satisfactory performance and fund availability. No cost-sharing is required, and projects will be performed internationally in the Pacific Islands Region, the Coral Triangle, and Japan.
Synopsis
NOAA/NMFS is soliciting competitive proposals for grants and cooperative agreements for projects that will support NOAA's mission for stewardship of living marine resources and the sustainable management of U.S. commercial longline fisheries. Projects will ensure data pipelines are in place to inform the sustainable management of U.S. commercial fisheries that interact with endangered species as they migrate throughout the Pacific - a problem that has led to fishery closures when annual interaction limits are reached. Through these efforts, NOAA will strengthen the competitiveness of U.S. commercial longline fisheries, creating a more level playing field for American fishermen, while reinforcing U.S. leadership in marine resource management. Projects must benefit aggregations of endangered marine turtles that have documented linkages to the Pacific Islands Region (PIR), are impacted by PIR federally managed commercial fisheries, and address NOAA's Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery obligations. For the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding competition, we are soliciting projects that: 1) monitor and implement protection measures to conserve western Pacific leatherback sea turtles occurring in the Coral Triangle region (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, or Solomon Islands); 2) monitor and implement protection measures to conserve North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles in Japan; and 3) progress conservation momentum and build capacity for research, monitoring and protection of endangered marine turtle populations in order to benefit U.S. trust resources that occur in international waters.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| Foa_Content_of_NOAA-NMFS-PIR-2026-33156 (1).pdf |
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