PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
This cooperative program provides support to State fishery agencies to enhance their data collection and analysis systems to respond to coast wide and insular area fisheries management needs. The program supports fisheries data collection and analysis projects that provide catch, effort, economic and biological data on federally managed species to the Fishery Management Councils as needed for continuing management of Pacific fisheries.

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

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;