NOAA Recommends Record High $25 Million in S-K Grant Funds for 88 Fishing Industry Projects
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] June 29, 2015
NOAA has recommended more than $25 million in funding for 88 projects under the 2014-2015 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program. This is the most significant amount of funding ever granted by NOAA under this decades-old program.
"NOAA is committed to helping communities become more resilient environmentally as well as economically,” said NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D. “These awards will create jobs, increase economic opportunities for fishing communities, improve the kinds of data and observations we collect about the health of our nation’s fisheries and oceans, and make sound investments in mitigating future risk.”
This year’s recommended projects fall into four broad categories: Maximizing fishing opportunities and jobs; Improving key fisheries observations; Increasing the quality and quantity of domestic seafood and; improving fishery information from U.S. territories.
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