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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia;"><i class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: Helvetica; orphans: auto; widows: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" bgcolor="#00A3E3" valign="top" style="background-color: rgb(0, 163, 227); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 5px 8px;" class=""><div align="center" style="text-align: center;" class="">New "pre-proposal" process provides more guidance for Saltonstall-Kennedy grant applicants</div></td></tr><tr class=""><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 7px 8px 11px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div class="">NOAA Fisheries has announced the availability of approximately $10 million in funding for projects focusing on sustainable fisheries and coastal fishing communities.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Changes to how stakeholders apply for the 2017 round of NOAA's Saltonstall-Kennedy grants will help applicants sharpen their submissions for greater success. </div><div class=""> </div><div class="">The new "pre-proposal" process asks applicants to briefly show the technical merits and relevance of their project before they submit a full proposal. Applicants will then either be encouraged to submit a full proposal or given feedback on how to improve their submission. A pre-proposal is required in order to be eligible to submit a full proposal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">To be considered for 2017 funding, projects should advance research in one of the following focus areas:<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><ul class=""><li class="">Marine aquaculture</li><li class="">Fishery data collection</li><li class="">Techniques for reducing bycatch and other adverse impacts</li><li class="">Adapting to climate change and other long term ecosystem change</li><li class="">Sustainable seafood promotion, development, and marketing</li><li class="">Socio-economic fisheries research</li><li class="">Advancing fisheries science in U.S. territories, including research into enhancing annual catch limits and ecosystem-based fishery management</li></ul></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The deadline for pre-proposals is </span><strong style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">September 20, 2016</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Visit our <a moz-do-not-send="true" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016jwfiYvSuTO9Na1wTNJ-EOHgnIF2f-WxY1Qzxat3EpqTFWYz8DQqb2h0ixTmUo6bGHoezf5BQa1DoSgo3cFv0IBS8TeAsPmPUR5eFSJatamuNXQ1yqOPP3aj3ZlDsFxOU0xhaoOc-UDZkOIXQrvHRAid2MsvU0e5CGE6JcO3CvN0qNDDT55HDMZ2uGyMnQusq7wuwEVx6dtdqXUXED0Zy9RL7wpg8YIoU4wc2FeWrWhXgKCX5bZZYlKgfetVtutAmokC6bKg69mrjssV2Sot4vZWbj6kqub108HYUVP6y6FrIllNtUvZcM-KeKGLnGpAi-6jUbksprvgKSwmgmw46N8lUnok9p_MNfYma1LeoCvU4MCxi4TySdJuYXIz8g4N&c=rVa6JXWtW5y6hwoKNKKdi1wgWfVmywgtLpSy7o8kMOtFBWTTnrAuaw==&ch=6MqPyJ59CRIIWO1PVKRDK2y4yaObyaIjpOiDPBGXYe76zLCHi_m0Tg==" alt="http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/mb/financial_services/skhome.htm?utm_source=SK+Pre-proposal+email&utm_campaign=2017+SK+Grant+announcement&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" style="color: blue;" class="">website</a> for more information, including a link to the solicitation and how to apply.</span></div><br class=""><div class="">Questions? Contact Allison Ferreira at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:978-281-9103" value="+19782819103" target="_blank" class="">978-281-9103</a>or email <span style="color: rgb(0, 103, 206); text-decoration: underline;" class="">allison.ferreria</span><a moz-do-not-send="true" shape="rect" href="mailto:jennifer.goebel@noaa.gov" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 103, 206);" class="">@noaa.gov.</a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></span></i></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></body></html>