Yukon River Salmon Research and Management Assistance FY2018 | F17AS00303

Opportunity Information: Apply for F17AS00303

The Yukon River Salmon Research and Management Assistance FY2018 opportunity is a competitive grant program run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. Department of the Interior) to support work tied to the Yukon River Salmon Agreement between the United States and Canada. The program exists because the Service receives dedicated funds to help carry out that international agreement, which was reached in the early 2000s and includes authority to fund cooperative research and management efforts on the Alaska portion of the Yukon River. In practical terms, this grant is meant to pay for targeted, one-year projects, studies, or events that improve what scientists, managers, and the public know about Yukon River salmon, especially Chinook and chum, and how those runs can be managed.

The focus is strongly on advancing understanding of salmon biology and management in the Alaska Yukon River context, with an emphasis on projects that match the program's priority categories and evaluation factors (not listed in the excerpt, but referenced as the basis for what proposals should address). Rather than asking for full multi-year proposals up front, the notice is specifically requesting conceptual project proposals with a one-year period of performance. This usually means applicants should be prepared to clearly explain the problem being addressed, the approach or methods, anticipated outputs, and how the work will inform management decisions or contribute to broader understanding, all within a single year.

A notable expectation in the announcement is the encouragement to build local capacity by involving members of Yukon River communities where the work will take place. That points to a preference for projects that do not just extract data, but also meaningfully include local people through employment, training, collaboration, or co-production of knowledge. The notice also recommends coordinating with state and federal regulatory agencies, which can help ensure projects align with management needs and existing monitoring programs, although it is explicitly not a requirement.

Administratively, this is a discretionary grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F17AS00303) under CFDA 15.671. It is described as open eligibility (unrestricted), meaning a wide range of applicants can potentially apply, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that might appear elsewhere in the full notice. The anticipated funding scale indicates up to about $120,000 per award (award ceiling) with an expectation of around 8 awards, suggesting a program designed to fund multiple focused projects rather than a single large effort. The opportunity was created July 6, 2017, with an original closing date of January 5, 2018, and is categorized broadly across research and development-relevant areas like environment, natural resources, science and technology, and related public-interest fields.

Overall, the grant is best understood as a targeted funding mechanism to generate actionable science and shared understanding about Yukon River Chinook and chum salmon, while encouraging community involvement and practical coordination with management agencies, all within a one-year project timeframe.

• The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the education, environment, food and nutrition, health, information and statistics, natural resources, regional development, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Yukon River Salmon Research and Management Assistance FY2018" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.671.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 06, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 05, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $120,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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