Bluefin Tuna Research Program (DOC)

• Date: 16 July 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31186
• Published date: 16 July 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

professionals; developing faculty and library leaders; and

recruiting, educating and retaining the next generation of

library and archives professionals.

Deadline: Oct. 2, 2020.

Funds: $8 million total for up to 25 awards ranging from

$50,000 to $1 million.

Eligibility: State or local governments or private,

nonprot organizations. See the announcement for

complete eligibility criteria.

Areas: IMLS said all applications must designate one

of the following project categories: lifelong learning,

community catalysts, and national digital infrastructures

and initiatives.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# LB21-FY21

Cooperative Research Program (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration seeks applications for

the FY2021 Cooperative Research Program to improve

and strengthen the relationship between sheries

researchers from the National Marine Fisheries Service,

state shery agencies, universities and the U.S. shing

industry (recreational and commercial) in the Gulf of

Mexico (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and

Texas), South Atlantic (Florida, North Carolina, South

Carolina and Georgia) and Caribbean (U.S. Virgin

Islands and Puerto Rico).

Deadline: Sept. 25, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $1.5 million for up to eight

projects ranging from $25,000 to $250,000. The

maximum project period is one year.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; state, local and

Native American tribal governments; and qualied

individuals.

Areas: DOC said program priorities include commercial

and recreational nsh; economic studies; estimating

the economic value of alternative shery allocations to

the private angler, for-hire and/or commercial sectors;

developing a system of economic incentives to reduce

bycatch in commercial and/or recreational for-hire

sheries; and commercial shrimp harvest; among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NMFS-

SE-2021-2006576

Bluen Tuna Research Program (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration seeks applications

for the FY2021 Bluen Tuna Research Program to

provide a basis for advancing science-based sheries

management for Atlantic bluen tuna.

Deadline: Sept. 25, 2020.

Funds: Approximately $600,000 for up to ve projects

that will range from $25,000 to $300,000. The maximum

project period is one year.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; state, local and

Native American tribal governments; and qualied

individuals.

Areas: DOC said proposals must address at least one

of these priority areas: representative sampling of hard

and soft tissues and associated analytical techniques for

studies of population genomics, stock composition, age

composition, growth and total reproductive contribution

by size and age; large-scale conventional, electronic

and genetic tagging experiments specically designed

to estimate movement rates, abundance and mortality of

the eastern or western stocks; and historical data (both

paper copies or archived biological material) mining to

sharpen estimates of catch, catch composition, shing

effort and spatial aspects of catch; among many others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NMFS-

SE-2021-2006574

CRCP State and Territorial Coral Reef

Conservation Cooperative Agreements (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks

applications for the Coral Reef Conservation Program

(CRCP) State and Territorial Coral Reef Conservation

Cooperative Agreements announcement to support

coral reef management and monitoring programs and

conservation projects that seek to improve the condition

of coral reef ecosystem resources located in seven U.S.

states, territories and commonwealths.

Deadline: Project lists, Aug. 27, 2020; pre-applications,

Oct. 8, 2020; proposals, Feb. 11, 2021.

Funds: Funding is expected to range between $3.5

million and $4.5 million in FY2021 for awards ranging

from $300,000 to $900,000.

Eligibility: State, territorial and commonwealth natural

resource management agencies.

Areas: DOC said types of funding include programmatic,

project, restoration and research. Activities funded under

this announcement are intended to focus on shallow-

water coral reefs and associated ecosystems, including

those found at mesophotic depths, that occur in U.S.

states, territories and commonwealths and are subject

to local management authority. Applicants are also

invited to propose conservation projects in watersheds

immediately adjacent to or directly inuencing U.S. coral

reef ecosystems to reduce acute and/or chronic threats

to adjacent reefs.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-NOS-

OCM-2021-2006566

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