Researchers, business professionals and other potential applicants are encouraged to contact North Carolina Sea Grant to learn more about funding through Sea Grant’s National Aquaculture Initiative: Enhancing Production of Coastal, Marine, and Great Lakes Aquaculture Species.
The National Sea Grant office anticipates up to $6 million in funding for research projects and programs that will develop and refine methods, protocols, techniques, and/or strategies to enhance the production of one or more life stages of aquaculture species to improve the efficiency, output, and profitability of commercial coastal, marine, or Great Lakes region aquaculture businesses, officials said.
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The complete notice of funding opportunity, eligibility information and how to apply is at seagrant.noaa.gov/funding. Letters of intent are due Jan. 17. Full proposals are due in April 2024. Applications require the standard 50% nonfederal match for Sea Grant projects.
“Our program has decades of experience in identifying new species for culture, and expanding research success to demonstrations of commercial production,” Eric Herbst, coastal aquaculture specialist, said in a statement.
Projects that focus on the following aquaculture categories and organisms in both marine and freshwater are eligible for this competition and include microalgae and macroalgae, or seaweed, mollusks, crustaceans, ornamentals, baitfish, finfish species for food production, and miscellaneous invertebrates.
The opportunity is open to any individual, public or private corporation, partnership or other association or entity, including any Sea Grant College, Sea Grant Institute or other institution, as well as state, political subdivision of a state, tribal government or agency or officer thereof.
