NOAA Awards Fish Habitat Restoration Funding For Two California Projects
The following is courtesy of NOAA Fisheries:
$103 Million in NOAA Funding Awarded to Restore Habitat for Fisheries
Sixteen new projects across the country will ensure fish have access to the high quality habitats they need to sustain their populations.
NOAA Fisheries has awarded $103 million in funding for 16 habitat restoration projects across the country. These projects will recover and sustain our nation’s fisheries by ensuring fish have access to high quality habitat.
By supporting America’s fisheries, these projects will “Make America Beautiful Again” through proactive, voluntary, on-the-ground collaborative conservation efforts. America’s abundant natural resources—including valuable commercial and recreational fisheries—are vital to our nation’s economy and culture, bolstering industries, jobs, recreation, and more.
Fisheries rely on healthy habitats like wetlands, rivers, and coral reefs as important areas to grow, eat, and reproduce. These projects will restore healthy habitat for fish across the country: from planting corals to rebuild reefs in the Caribbean, to reconnecting rivers for salmon, to restoring salt marsh for shrimp and oysters in the Gulf of America.
NOAA received many more applications than we could fund. The total demand from the nearly 350 proposals we received was $1.5 billion, more than 17 times the amount of funding available. The full list of funded projects can be found below.
Projects Selected for Funding
California
- California Trout: Reconnecting floodplain habitat for coho salmon in the Klamath River. ($5.4 million)
- California Department of Water Resources: Restoring fish passage to support habitat for salmon and sturgeon. ($8 million)
