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NOAA-NMFS-SE-2025-28271: FY 25 MARFIN

Closed Closed December 31, 2024 Opportunity NOAA-NMFS-SE-2025-28271 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$525,000
• Award floor$175,000
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants may be institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, individuals, and state, local, and Indian tribal governments. Federal agencies or institutions are not eligible. For-profit organizations are ineligible. Foreign governments, organizations under the jurisdiction of foreign governments, and international organizations are excluded for purposes of this solicitation since the objective of the MARFIN program is to optimize research and development benefits from U.S. marine fishery resources.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Marine Fisheries Initiative awards averaged $293,539; this notice allows up to $525,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (58% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Region, is seeking proposals under the Marine Fisheries Initiative Program (MARFIN), for research and development projects that optimize the use of fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and off the South Atlantic states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, involving the U.S. fishing industry (recreational and commercial), including fishery biology, resources assessment, socio-economic assessment, management and conservation, selected harvesting methods, and fish handling and processing. This program addresses NOAA's mission goal "Healthy Oceans."

Category: Environment, Natural Resources, Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

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