NOAA is announcing the availability of a federal funding opportunity to support multi-year projects and activities in the NOAA Habitat Blueprint Habitat Focus Areas. Fiscal Year 2017 awards will total up to $1.5 million, with total anticipated funding over three years up to $3.5 million, contingent upon final appropriations. The […]
Content for this article written by NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management. Please contact Elizabeth.Mountz@noaa.gov for more information. NOAA is working with local partners to invest in the Muskegon Lake Area of Concern (AOC), bringing it closer to the goal of delisting by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Delisting occurs when all management actions […]
Do alien-looking fish still swim around Miami? The effort to confirm the movements of endangered smalltooth sawfish near Florida’s largest city got delayed by October’s hurricane, but a scientific pit crew is busy putting its project back on track. If successful, the project will become the first to detect tagged […]
“CHOP!” “TANK!” “CHOP!” “TANK!” The voices—“Chop” from Sultana Education Foundation educators, “tank” from Sandy Hill Elementary School fifth-graders—echoed across the waters off Cambridge, Maryland, as they hoisted sails on the Sultana on a cool October morning. Having teamed up to provide the sail power, enabling the Sultana to tack across the […]
Projects in Maine Improve Lake and Stream Habitat for Fish We have completed two landmark fish passage projects in the Penobscot River Habitat Focus Area. The benefits to migratory alewife fish are expected to be substantial due to the large amount of spawning habitat restored—a total of more than 3,100 […]