Poseidon Fisheries Research LLC

Poseidon Fisheries Research LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Kalaheo, Hawaii, delivers fisheries research, community engagement, and capacity-building services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a prime recipient under federal grants and a small-business-set-aside prime contractor. The vendor operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes exclusively under set-aside vehicles; all seven recent awards in the source carry small-business or woman-owned designations.

Poseidon's customer base is entirely concentrated with NOAA. All seven awards in the source represent work for the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, spanning both grant and contract vehicles. The vendor's concrete capability work centers on collaborative fisheries science, spawning-distribution mapping, and fisher-community engagement in sustainable pelagic-fishery management. Recent representative work includes a $137,786 NOAA cooperative agreement (CFDA 11.454, Unallied Projects program) awarded January 1, 2027, to map spawning distributions of Hawaii's bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna, and swordfish by training small-boat fishers to collect fish eggs and larvae during opportunistic spawning events and subjecting samples to eDNA testing to identify breeding locations and timing—work performed in Kapolei, Hawaii, with completion targeted for December 31, 2028. The vendor also received a $29,280 small-business-set-aside purchase order from NOAA for cooperative fisheries research liaison services (award date October 1, 2022, completion September 30, 2023) and a project grant from NOAA (award date January 1, 2022) supporting fishing tournaments as a means to engage local fishing communities and promote citizen science, running through June 30, 2023. The vendor has received multiple NOAA grants totaling over $400,000 since 2019 for fisheries research and community engagement initiatives.

Activity is sparse but recent: one award in 2019, one in 2020, two in 2021, two in 2022, and one awarded in January 2027. The source shows combined potential value of $29 thousand but combined obligated dollars of $532 thousand, indicating substantial invoiced activity relative to stated ceiling values. Poseidon operates as a prime on 100% of recent awards with no subcontract footprint in the source data.