NOAA Restoration Center
FishAmerica, in partnership with the NOAA Restoration Center provides
funding for on-the-ground, community-based projects to restore habitat
for marine and anadromous fish along the coastal United States and
the Great Lakes watershed.
The partnership funds local, hands-on efforts to restore marine,
estuarine and riparian habitats, including salt marshes, seagrass
beds, mangrove forests, and freshwater habitats important to marine
and anadromous fish species (fish like salmon and striped bass that
spawn in freshwater and migrate to the sea). Funded projects involve
community participation through an educational or volunteer component
tied to the restoration activities.
Funding for FY2010 is now available. Click
here for the RFP, Application and other information.
2009 FAF/NOAA Funded Projects
California
Rural Human Services of Crescent City, California was awarded $7,512
to improve fisheries habitat in the Lower Klamath watershed. They
will install instream habitat structures, stabilize eroding streambanks,
and revegetate the riparian buffer along Sultan Creek.
The Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group in Cottonwood, California was
awarded $11,932 to restore fisheries habitat in the Sacramento River
watershed. They will restore approximately four acres of riparian
habitat along Cottonwood Creek.
The Sonoma Ecology Center in Eldridge, California was awarded $45,000
to improve spawning and rearing habitat in the San Francisco Bay
watershed. The applicant will restore approximately five acres of
riparian habitat along Sonoma Creek.
Florida
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection in Pensacola,
Florida was awarded $50,000 to improve fisheries habitat and water
quality in the Apalachicola watershed.
They will restore almost 0.7 acres of salt marsh and .11 acres
of oyster habitat along St. Andrews Bay, Florida.
St. Lucie County in Fort Pierce, Florida was awarded $50,000 to
restore fisheries habitat in the Everglades watershed. The county
will restore 4.7 acres of a 5.8 acre island through the removal of
exotic invasive species and revegetating the area with native plantings.
Georgia
The University of Georgia – Marine Extension Services in Athens,
Georgia was awarded $25,000 to improve fisheries habitat and water
quality in the Lower Savannah watershed. The applicant restore 0.25
acres of essential fish habitat in coastal Georgia and enhance awareness
of the need for oyster reef restoration through education workshops
and other community outreach efforts.
Idaho
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was awarded $14,600 to improve
fish habitat in the Little Salmon River watershed. The state, working
with community volunteers, will install one-half mile of cattle
exclusion fencing, plant native vegetation, and install willow
weavings to stabilize the eroding stream banks along Fourmile Creek.
Massachusetts
The Town of Brewster in Massachusetts was awarded $15,000 to improve
fish passage in the Cape Cod watershed. The town will complete
the feasibility study, design plans and permitting necessary for
repairs to a degraded fishway on Lower Mill Pond.
The Town of Somerset in Massachusetts was awarded $40,000 to improve
fish passage in the Narragansett Bay watershed. The town will restore
11 acres of degraded salt marsh and brackish tidal wetlands and will
open more than 250 feet of tidal creek to passage.
Michigan
The Barry Soil & Water Conservation District in Barry County,
Michigan was awarded $40,000 to improve fish passage and fisheries
habitat in the Pere
Marquette-White watershed. The conservation district will improve
one mile of riparian buffer and 0.5 linear miles of riverbank and
associated floodplain habitat along Thornapple River.
Mississippi
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources was awarded $31,000
to improve fisheries habitat along the Mississippi coast. The project
will impact approximately 368 miles of coastal Mississippi shoreline
by removing approximately 500 derelict traps. This hands-on project
will help restore marine, estuarine, and riparian habitats.
North Carolina
The North Carolina Coastal Federation in Newport, North Carolina
was awarded $43,686 to improve fisheries habitat and water quality
in the Cape Fear watershed. The applicant will create approximately
0.11 acres of oyster and saltmarsh habitat along the shoreline
of the Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve and Stump Sound in Onslow
County, North Carolina.
Puerto Rico
G Works, Inc in Catano, Puerto Rico was awarded $50,000 to improve
fisheries habitat and water quality in San Juan Bay. The applicant
will restore approximately one lineal mile of mangrove habitat
along the San Juan Bay and restore approximately 1.5 acres of wetland
within the Las Cucharillas Marsh.
Oregon
Oregon Trout of Portland, Oregon was awarded $50,000 to restore fisheries
habitat in the John Day River Basin. They will increase the stream
length and channel complexity along the Middle Fork John Day River
in the Columbia River basin.
The Freshwater Trust in Portland, Oregon was awarded $50,000 to
improve fisheries habitat in the Salmon River watershed. The Freshwater
Trust will increase pool habitat, side channel habitat, and channel
complexity on 0.6 miles of the Salmon River, and will restore surface
flow and channel complexity to 0.4 miles of side channel habitat.
The National Center for Conservation Science & Policy in Ashland,
Oregon was awarded $50,000 to improve fish passage and restore fisheries
habitat in the Rogue River watershed. The applicant will re-route
Little Butte Creek’s flow to its historic channel increasing
the length of the creek by 0.25 miles.
Virginia
The Elizabeth River Project of Portsmouth, Virginia was awarded $50,000
to improve fisheries habitat along the Elizabeth River in the Chesapeake
Bay watershed. They will restore nearly six acres of marsh and
vegetative buffer at Money Point.
Washington
The North Olympic Salmon Coalition in Port Hadlock, Washington was
awarded $50,000 to improve fisheries habitat and restore fish passage
in the Puget Sound watershed. The coalition will create 0.5 miles
of new channel, 0.3 miles of mainstem and 0.2 miles of overflow/off-channel
habitat along Morse Creek.
