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NOAA-OAR-SG-2025-29639: Sea Grant Programs Only - FY2025 Northeast American Lobster Regional Program

Closed Closed June 4, 2025 Opportunity NOAA-OAR-SG-2025-29639 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$3.4 million
• Total funding$3.4 million
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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)

The following entities are eligible to submit to this opportunity:This competition is open only to the following Sea Grant programs in the Northeast region - Maine Sea Grant, New Hampshire Sea Grant, MIT Sea Grant, Woods Hole Sea Grant, Connecticut Sea Grant, Rhode Island Sea Grant and New York Sea Grant. To be eligible to apply or receive an award, applicant organizations must complete and maintain three registrations; SAM.gov, Grants.gov, and eRA Commons. For each, the complete registration process can take 4 to 6 weeks, so applicants must begin this activity as soon as possible and well before the proposal due date. For more information on how to meet these registration and application submission requirements without errors, we advise all to carefully review relevant Applicant and Grantee Training modules: https://www.commerce.gov/ocio/programs/gems/applicant-and-grantee-training. Additionally, we advise that all carefully read ‘Additional Application Package Forms’ within the ‘Full Proposal Required Elements’ section below.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Sea Grant Support awards averaged $703,725; this notice allows up to $3.4 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (79% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

This competition is open only to the following Sea Grant programs in the northeast region - Maine Sea Grant, New Hampshire Sea Grant, MIT Sea Grant, Woods Hole Sea Grant, Connecticut Sea Grant, Rhode Island Sea Grant and New York Sea Grant. Proposals representing collaboration between multiple programs will be prioritized. The National Sea Grant College Program was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966 (amended in 2020, Public Law 116-221) to support leveraged federal and state partnerships that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation’s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities. The National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative began in 2018, in response to Congressional direction and with the recognition that a cohesive regional lobster program would be beneficial for the Northeast. Since then, the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) has run competitions resulting in the funding of 40 research projects totaling more than $11.5 million, and awarding an additional $1.6 million in extension funding in the Northeast to transfer the research results to the decision makers and communities served. Pending federal appropriations in FY2025, consistent with its mission to enhance practical use and conservation in order to create a sustainable economy and environment, the NSGO intends to enhance local oversight and direction of research and extension within the American lobster fishery by funding a regional program that aims to synthesize previous and ongoing research findings, support new and ongoing place-based extension within the region, and continue addressing priority research needs necessary to enhance understanding of and address impacts on the significant, complex and dynamic American lobster fishery. A Gulf of Maine-focused, but regionally-coordinated American lobster program, will ensure that stakeholders across the Northeast region continue to benefit from research and extension supporting American lobster (Homarus americanus) and its fishery. This includes research carried out through the National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative, state Sea Grant projects and other relevant research, as well as the lessons learned and best practices developed to benefit the sustainability of the fishery and its associated communities and economies.

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

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