Northeast Region Fishing Gear Exchange Project

The summary for the Northeast Region Fishing Gear Exchange Project Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	Northeast Region Fishing Gear Exchange Project
	CFDA Number:	11.452
	CFDA Description:	Unallied Industry Projects
	Federal Agency Name:	Department of Commerce
	Category of Funding Activity:	Disaster Prevention and Relief Environment Natural Resources Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	NOAA-NMFS-NERO-2009-2001993
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Jul 16, 2009
	Creation Date:	Jul 16, 2009
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 30, 2009 Applications must be postmarked, provided to a delivery service or received by http://www.grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 30, 2009. Use of U.S. Mail or another delivery service must be documented with a receipt. Please note that it may take Grants.gov up to two business days to validate or reject an application. Please keep this in mind when developing your submission timeline.
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Jul 30, 2009 Applications must be postmarked, provided to a delivery service or received by http://www.grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 30, 2009. Use of U.S. Mail or another delivery service must be documented with a receipt. Please note that it may take Grants.gov up to two business days to validate or reject an application. Please keep this in mind when developing your submission timeline.
	Archive Date:	Aug 29, 2009
	Expected Number of Awards:	1
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$3,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$3,000,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$3,000,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education, other nonprofits, commercial organizations, and state, local and Indian tribal governments. Federal agencies or institutions are not eligible to receive Federal assistance under this notice.
Grant Description: Right, humpback and fin whales, which are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, are occasionally injured or killed through incidental entanglement in fishing gear. Based on gear retrieved from entangled whales, interactions can occur with any component of the fishing gear, including buoy lines, groundlines, gillnet floatlines, and surface systems. Provisions of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan (ALWTRP) require that permit holders using trap/pot and gillnet gear comply with requirements designed to reduce the serious injury and mortality of large whales. One such gear modification requires the use of sinking groundlines. Other risk reduction measures include adding weak links to fixed fishing gear which can assist entangled whales in breaking free after an interaction has occurred. NMFS is providing financial assistance in the form of a grant to support the development and implementation of a fishing gear exchange project for Lobster Management Areas 2 and 3 in the Northeast Region. This document describes how to submit proposals for funding and how NMFS will determine which proposals will be funded; this document should be read in its entirety prior to the submission of a proposal. This project will support NOAA's mission goal to protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management.
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Grant Announcement Contact: Steve Drescher Policy Advisor
For application download issues [steve.j.drescher@noaa.gov]
Similar Government Grants: • 2011 Western Pacific Demonstration Projects; • 2011 Marine Education and Training Mini Grant Program; • 2011 Hawaii Seafood Program; • 2011 Alaska Region Marine Education and Training Grant Program; • 2010 Western Pacific Demonstration Projects; • FY08 Hawaii Seafood Program; • FY09 Hawaii Seafood Program