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Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA Announce $2 Million for Partnerships to Support Red Snapper Recovery

October 17, 2024 NOAA Fisheries

The Biden-Harris Administration and NOAA announced they will award approximately $2 million in Inflation Reduction Act funds to collect data and improve modeling through partnerships with the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami. These partnerships are critical to NOAA Fisheries’ work to improve scientific data and management decisions for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. …

Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program is Accepting Applications

October 9, 2024 NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program

The application period for the 2025 Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program is now open. All of the application details are outlined in the FY25 Notice of Funding Opportunity. This will be the first year with a pre-application process that will be due on October 31, 2024. Visit the FAQs for more details about the new application process. …

NOAA Fisheries is Preparing a Secretarial Amendment to End Overfishing of Red Snapper

September 26, 2024 NOAA Fisheries

The Secretarial Amendment and supporting analyses will evaluate a range of alternative options for setting and managing red snapper catches at levels that end overfishing (slow the rate of red snapper being removed from the population) and support rebuilding this red snapper population. …

Enforcement of Section 609 Program Improving Foreign Commercial Fishery Practices

August 27, 2024 The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA)

Under the program, the State Department, working with officials from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) Fisheries, certifies countries and/or individual fisheries as being in compliance with Section 609’s requirements and therefore eligible to supply the U.S. market with shrimp. …

Commercial Closure for Red Snapper in South Atlantic Federal Waters

August 5, 2024 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

The commercial harvest of red snapper in federal waters of the South Atlantic will close at 12:01 a.m., local time, on August 6, 2024. …