Canada: Fisheries Development Grants Program

Deadline: 1-Dec-21

The New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund (NBWTF) is seeking applications for Fisheries Development Grants Program to provide funding to conserve, enhance, or create fish habitat and to provide funding to enhance fish production and protection to meet the demands of the recreational fishery.

Principles

The program will focus on conservation and/or enhancement of habitat for native species.
Project goals should achieve and sustain a net gain in fish production.
Retain, enhance or develop the quantity and quality of fish habitat to ensure the viability, diversity and geographic distribution of native species in New Brunswick.
Promote the retention or enhancement of fish habitat by increasing public awareness or changing public attitudes.
Projects and subsequent achievement assessments must be based on accurate, relevant information.

Funding Information

Please note that most projects receive less then $15,000 in funding.

Guidelines

Proposals will be ranked in priority from a provincial program perspective, and approved on a project by project basis, as funds permit.
Revenues are to be used primarily for expenditures on habitat retention, enhancement, and development projects.
Assessment of fish production and habitat conditions for project planning and evaluation is an important component of the habitat program and is eligible for funding.
Land acquisition for critical fisheries habitat or management programs may be considered. Candidate sites for acquisition should be unique situations or provincially important fisheries.
Research or investigational projects that will lead to enhanced fish production or protection are to be approved on a priority basis.
The factors and ranking for priority setting are:
- Naturally reproducing stocks
- Areas of high fishing demand
- Areas with high natural potential for fish production.
Projects should be in those geographical areas that will provide the greatest benefits to the recreational fishery.
Development of public access sites for fishing may be acceptable. Selection of potential sites should be limited to those waters which support provincially important fisheries.
The Wildlife Council will review the Fisheries Development Program project objectives and funding and recommend projects and funding levels to the Minister.