FY26 Marine Turtle Conservation for Sustainable U.S. Fisheries Grant Program
Last verified by NonDilute: 2026-04-30. Official notice and agency instructions control.
If you operate or partner on marine conservation projects targeting sea turtles in the Western Pacific, this NOAA grant funds direct protection and monitoring work critical to U.S. fishery sustainability.
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What this is
This FY26 grant supports conservation research and monitoring of endangered marine turtles in the Western Pacific, specifically leatherback sea turtles in the Coral Triangle (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands) and North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles in Japan. Projects must directly benefit turtle populations that are impacted by Pacific Islands Region federally managed fisheries and address NOAA's Endangered Species Act recovery obligations. Awards range from $40,000 to $220,000, with a June 30, 2026 deadline. This is field conservation work, not technology-focused, though data management and monitoring systems may be components.
Who can apply
Broad eligibility including nonprofits (501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), small businesses, for-profit organizations, tribal governments, state/local governments, and individuals. Geographic focus is Pacific Islands Region and international waters (Coral Triangle, Japan). No institutional higher-education applicants listed as primary eligibles.
Eligible applicant types
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- County governments
- State governments
- Individuals
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Full description — from the agency
NOAA/NMFS is soliciting competitive proposals for grants and cooperative agreements for projects that will support NOAA’s mission for stewardship of living marine resources and the sustainable management of U.S. commercial longline fisheries. Projects will ensure data pipelines are in place to inform the sustainable management of U.S. commercial fisheries that interact with endangered species as they migrate throughout the Pacific — a problem that has led to fishery closures when annual interaction limits are reached. Through these efforts, NOAA will strengthen the competitiveness of U.S. commercial longline fisheries, creating a more level playing field for American fishermen, while reinforcing U.S. leadership in marine resource management. Projects must benefit aggregations of endangered marine turtles that have documented linkages to the Pacific Islands Region (PIR), are impacted by PIR federally managed commercial fisheries, and address NOAA’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery obligations. For the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding competition, we are soliciting projects that: 1) monitor and implement protection measures to conserve western Pacific leatherback sea turtles occurring in the Coral Triangle region (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, or Solomon Islands); 2) monitor and implement protection measures to conserve North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles in Japan; and 3) progress conservation momentum and build capacity for research, monitoring and protection of endangered marine turtle populations in order to benefit U.S. trust resources that occur in international waters.
Topics: marine turtle conservation · endangered species management · fisheries sustainability · pacific islands · sea turtle monitoring
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