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Environmental Defense Grant
Organization - Environmental Defense
Grant Amount - $1,891,251
Foundation - Moore Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) builds on previous work to establish an individual fishing quota (IFQ) management system in the trawl sector of the Pacific groundfish fishery. In the renewal grant, EDF will work to ensure that the rules and implementing measures of the trawl sector are finalized as a model of sustainable fisheries management and will work to initiate a formal Pacific Fishery Management Council process to extend quota share management to other sectors in the Pacific groundfish fishery.
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Natural Resources Defense Council - $314,900 from the Moore Foundation - The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will use this grant to encourage a new generation of bycatch minimization measures within the Pacific groundfish fishery. NRDC will provide information and technical analyses to facilitate Pacific Fishery...
Environmental Defense - $1,980,192 from the Moore Foundation - This grant supports implementation of Dedicated Access Privileges (DAPs, also known as "catch shares") in the entire groundfish fishery and in the offshore sea scallop fishery, and evaluates feasibility of implementation in a nearshore...
Penobscot East Resource Center - $563,000 from the Moore Foundation - Penobscot East Resource Center will use this grant to promote implementation of an area-based groundfish management system that serves as a model for governance and sustainable fisheries in New England. The outcome of this grant is adoption of a...
Council of Michigan Foundations - $50,000 from the Mott Foundation - This grant will enable the Council of Michigan Foundations to spin off the Michigan Individual Development Account Partnership, which was established in 2000 to support the growth and development of Individual Development Account programs throughout...
Environmental Defense - $1,000,000 from the Moore Foundation - This grant is to support Environmental Defense and its partners in creating the California Fisheries Fund (CFF). The CFF will provide fishers with sustainable access to capital for the research, business planning, and implementation of new fisheries...
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