New Hampshire Fish & Game

New Hampshire Fish & Game, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, is a federal grant recipient (97% of its 338 recent awards as prime recipient) operating across wildlife restoration, fisheries management, habitat conservation, and marine research programs funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other federal agencies.

The agency does not hold federal contracts. Its federal footprint consists entirely of federal grants—formula grants, project grants, and cooperative agreements—under programs including the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611), the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605), the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act (CFDA 11.474), the State Wildlife Grants Program (CFDA 15.634), and the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Cooperative Agreements (CFDA 11.473). Representative work spans a $3.8 million formula grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service to operate six hatchery facilities producing approximately one million trout and salmon annually for statewide fisheries management; a $1.2 million formula grant for research on forest habitat and winter tick-moose parasitism dynamics; a $179,436 project grant from NOAA for sea sampling, harvester reporting, and ventless trap surveys to support the state's lobster fishery management plan; and a $333,334 project grant under the State Wildlife Grants Program for turtle species conservation (wood, Blanding's, spotted, and eastern box turtles) with Zoo New England as a sub-recipient.

Customer concentration is tightly aligned with the Pittman-Robertson and Sport Fish Restoration framework. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 anchors the portfolio with 129 awards carrying $20 thousand in combined potential value, followed by the broader Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service structure with 139 awards. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration places 47 awards covering marine fisheries monitoring, coastal habitat restoration, and estuarine research reserve operations. The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency round out active customer relationships, with FEMA awards tied to post-disaster public assistance for facility repairs and road damage.

Activity has remained moderate and episodic: 16 awards in 2022, 10 in 2023, 16 in 2024, 20 in 2025, and 7 to date in 2026. Ten awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, representing routine recompete cycles under formula grant renewals. The agency frequently partners with sub-recipients including the University of New Hampshire, the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, the Wildlife Management Institute, New Hampshire Audubon, and Zoo New England to conduct specific project components such as anadromous fish tagging and monitoring, wildlife habitat technical assistance, and endangered-species recovery actions.

New Hampshire Fish & Game operates as the state's lead wildlife and fisheries management authority, executing federal grant funding for population monitoring, habitat management across 60,000 acres of state wildlife management areas, fisheries hatchery operations, endangered-species recovery, public water access facility maintenance, and regional conservation coordination across the Northeast. The agency administers the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, a NOAA-designated facility supporting saltmarsh research, restoration planning, and climate adaptation initiatives. Federal grants finance the core operations and field research underpinning the agency's regulatory and management mandates under the Pittman-Robertson and Sport Fish Restoration Acts.