Funding & Financial Services - Grant Opportunities
Open Opportunities
NOAA Great Lakes Fish Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants
Fiscal Year 2024–2026: Broad Agency Announcement
National Grant Opportunities
Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Grants
Investing in habitat restoration projects leads to real, lasting differences—for communities, businesses, and the environment. This program funds restoration projects that use a habitat-based approach to rebuild productive and sustainable fisheries, contribute to the recovery and conservation of protected resources, and promote healthy ecosystems and resilient communities.
John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Program
This program provides assistance to National Marine Mammal Stranding Network participants and researchers. Funding is provided to support (1) recovery, treatment, and rehabilitation of stranded marine mammals; (2) data collection from living or dead stranded marine mammals, and (3) facility upgrades, operation costs, and staffing needs directly related to the recovery and treatment of stranded marine mammals and associated data collection.
Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program
This program funds projects that address the needs of fishing communities, optimize economic benefits by building and maintaining sustainable fisheries, and increase other opportunities to keep working waterfronts viable.
Financial Services Portal
NOAA Fisheries administers a number of programs to improve access to capital, reduce fishing overcapacity, mitigate the effects of conflicting uses and fisheries resource disasters, and provide fisheries research and development grants. The financial services portal provides a centralized hub for applying for many of these programs.
Fisheries Disaster Assistance
We administer disaster assistance under the Magnuson-Stevens Act and the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act. At the request of a state governor or an elected or duly-appointed representative for an affected fishing community, the Secretary of Commerce determines if a fishery is eligible for disaster assistance subject to appropriation of funds by Congress.
Fisheries Finance Program
The Fisheries Finance Program provides long term financing for the cost of construction or reconstruction of fishing vessels, fisheries facilities, aquaculture facilities, and individual fishing quota in the Northwest halibut/sablefish and Alaskan crab fisheries.
Fishing Capacity Reduction Program
We are authorized under the Magnuson-Stevens Act to conduct a fishing capacity reduction program if funds are provided and it is determined that such a program is necessary to prevent or end overfishing, rebuild stocks of fish, or achieve measurable or significant improvements in the conservation and management of the fishery.
Fishermen’s Contingency Fund
The Fishermen's Contingency Fund compensates fishermen for economic and property losses caused by oil and gas obstructions on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
Capital Construction Fund
The purpose of the Capital Construction Fund Program is to improve the fishing fleet by allowing fishermen to accelerate their accumulation of funds with which to replace or improve their fishing vessels.