PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To maintain a cooperative program which engages State and Federal agencies in the coordinated collection, management, and dissemination of fishery - independent information on marine fisheries in support of State Territorial Sea and U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone fisheries management programs.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Commercial Fisheries;
2. NATURAL RESOURCES;
- Wildlife Research and Preservation;

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

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