PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide assistance to eligible States and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in order to support and encourage the development, implementation, and enforcement of effective interstate conservation and management of Atlantic Coastal resources. Activities conducted under projects will be used to collect information necessary for the preparation, implementation and enforcement of coastal fisheries management plans and State activities required within such plans. Primary users of the information would be the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), the Atlantic Coast States, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Special Technical Service;
2. NATURAL RESOURCES;
- Water Conservation and Research;
- Wildlife Research and Preservation;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Anyone/general public;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);