Fisheries-Related Grants 
Provided by Nils Stolpe - FishNet USA  Version: February 25, 2011
Note: Due to inconsistencies in how the data for the various grants are entered from foundation to foundation and within the same foundation , there might be other fishing-related grants that weren't captured here. 
I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the data - the search pages for the foundations are linked below - let me know if you discover any discrepancies.
Pew Charitable Trusts Link
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Link
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Link
Walton Family Foundation Link
Surdna Foundation Link
Rockefeller Brothers  Link
Grantor Year Grantee Amount Purpose Web address
Pew 1999 Alaska Marine Conservation Council $150,000 To promote improved management of North Pacific/Bering Sea commercial fish populations through effective implementation of the federal Sustainable Fisheries Act.
Pew 2006 Alaska Marine Conservation Council $100,000 To support the activities of Dorothy Childers as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2006 Alaska Marine Conservation Council $50,000 To support efforts to mitigate habitat destruction, prevent expansion of industrial fishing into previously unfished areas, and advance an ecosystem-based fisheries management blueprint for the Beaufort, Chukchi and Eastern Bering Sea Large Marine Ecosystems.
Pew 1998 American Fisheries Society $75,000 To identify North American stocks of marine fish at risk.
Pew 1998 American Littoral Society $50,000 For a campaign to promote sustainable fisheries management policies for U.S. Caribbean marine fisheries.
Pew 1998 American Littoral Society $187,000 In continued support for design and implementation of strategic initiatives in marine fisheries conservation.
Pew 1999 American Littoral Society $100,000 For continued support of a public education effort to promote sustainable management policies for U.S.-Caribbean marine fisheries.
Pew 2001 American Littoral Society $150,000 To promote sustainable management of marine fish populations in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean Sea through public education and administrative advocacy.
Pew 2002 American Littoral Society $331,000 To reverse the decline of U.S. fish stocks through effective and strategic conservation advocacy that promotes the adoption of improved fishery management plans by regional councils and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Pew 2004 American Littoral Society $700,000 To enhance regional-level advocacy with fisheries management councils, consistent with the Pew Oceans Commissions recommendations.
Pew 2005 American Littoral Society $700,000 To support a series of activities designed to monitor, assess and influence the administrative actions of federal fisheries managers in five regions.
Pew 2005 American Littoral Society $500,000 To strengthen environmental protections for the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine Sanctuary.
Pew 2005 American Littoral Society $500,000 To strengthen environmental protections for the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine Sanctuary.
Pew 2006 American Littoral Society $400,000 To support state and regional efforts to secure fishery policies to minimize the unsustainable killing of marine life and protect sensitive habitat.
Pew 2006 American Littoral Society $250,000 To ensure a conservation-oriented implementation of the new Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.
Pew 2001 American Rivers, Inc. $500,000 To support the Hydropower Reform Coalitions work to restore river habitat critical to the health of anadromous and fresh water fish populations through reform of hydropower dam operations and management.
Pew 2008 Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition $300,500 To help manage organizers for the Trusts Antarctic Krill Conservation Project in key countries.
Pew 2008 Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition $240,000 To continue to help The Pew Charitable Trusts manage organizers for Pews Antarctic Krill Conservation Project in key countries.
Pew 2004 Aquatic Farms, Ltd. $142,000 To assess the amount of competition between catch of small forage fish for direct human consumption and for reduction into fishmeal and fish oil for use as aquaculture and agriculture feed.
Pew 2000 Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. $150,000 To conduct a study to determine the effectiveness of marine-protected areas and no-take zones in Bermuda as a model for other coral reef systems.
Pew 2002 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University $163,000 To undertake a comprehensive analysis of the management council structure and recommend changes based on that analysis
Pew 2004 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University $107,000 To develop a computer simulation tool that can predict where, and in what concentrations, the dissolved waste from aquaculture fish pens will move in the marine environment.
Pew 2008 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University $150,000 To support the activities of Fiorenza Micheli
Pew 1999 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $100,000 For support of the Fisheries Reform Campaign: Fishermen Paving the Road to Ecosystem Management.
Pew 2001 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $150,000 To promote sustainable management of marine fish populations in New England through public education and administrative advocacy.
Pew 2007 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $596,000 To support a New England forage fish campaign to ban or severely restrict destructive trawling, reduce allowable herring catches to leave sufficient herring in the ecosystem as forage, and establish new bycatch limits and reforms
Pew 2008 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $722,000 To support activities to reform the Atlantic herring fishery by (1) establishing protocols to set science-based fishery catch limits that specifically account for the changing needs of marine predators; (2) implementing a comprehensive monitoring and observer program that measures all catch, bycatch, and discards in a real-time manner; and (3) implementing improved time and area conservation and management measures to regulate when and where herring trawling is allowed.
Pew 1998 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for South Atlantic marine fisheries.
Pew 1998 Center for Marine Conservation $90,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Pacific marine fisheries.
Pew 1998 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Gulf of Mexico marine fisheries.
Pew 1998 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Mid-Atlantic marine fisheries.
Pew 1999 Center for Marine Conservation $67,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Mid-Atlantic marine fisheries.
Pew 1999 Center for Marine Conservation $80,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Gulf of Mexico marine fisheries.
Pew 1999 Center for Marine Conservation $80,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Pacific marine fisheries.
Pew 1999 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To promote sustainable management policies for South Atlantic marine fisheries.
Pew 2000 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To reverse the decline of U.S. Southeast Atlantic fish populations by reducing overfishing and bycatch, and the destruction of essential marine habitat.
Pew 2000 Center for Marine Conservation $60,000 To reverse the decline of U.S. Mid-Atlantic fish populations by reducing overfishing and bycatch, and the destruction of essential marine habitat.
Pew 2000 Center for Marine Conservation $80,000 To reverse the decline of U.S. Pacific fish populations by reducing overfishing and bycatch, and the destruction of essential marine habitat.
Pew 2000 Center for Marine Conservation $80,000 To reverse the decline of U.S. Gulf of Mexico fish populations by reducing overfishing and bycatch, and the destruction of essential marine habitat.
Pew 2007 Chesapeake Bay Foundation $250,000 To support ecosystem-based fisheries management policy reforms in Chesapeake Bay.
Pew 2008 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization $150,000 To support the activities of Beth Fulton
Pew 1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $125,000 To promote sustainable management policies
Pew 1999 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $125,000 To renew support for efforts to promote sustainable management policies for New England marine fisheries as part of the Regional Fisheries Initiative.
Pew 2000 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $206,000 To support the planning and design of a public education campaign to establish marine-protected areas in the Gulf of Maine.
Pew 2000 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $200,000 To promote sustainable management policies for New England marine fisheries
Pew 2002 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $100,000 To build public support for the designation of marine protected areas in the Gulf of Maine.
Pew 1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $125,000 To promote sustainable management policies.
Pew 1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $30,000 To promote responsible herring management.
Pew 1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $200,000 To restore habitat in the Gulf of Maine.
Pew 2002 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $200,000 To improve fish stock and protect the habitat areas essential to fish development in New England.
Pew 2006 Conservation Science Institute $50,000 To support the activities of Thomas Okey as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 1998 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $60,000 For continued support to create partnerships among foundations and nonprofits to strategically address the loss of biodiversity.
Pew 2000 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $60,000 For continued support to create partnerships among foundations and other nonprofits to strategically address the loss of biodiversity.
Pew 2002 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 For continued support to create partnerships among foundations and other nonprofits to strategically address the loss of biodiversity.
Pew 2004 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To create and promote collaboration and cooperation among foundations and other nonprofits to strategically address the loss of biodiversity.
Pew 2006 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2008 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2010 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2004 Dalhousie University $398,000 To document how the abundance and distribution of marine species have changed in response to fishing and habitat alteration over the past 50 to 100 years, and to predict how they are likely to change in the future.
Pew 2004 Dalhousie University $100,000 To assess the magnitude of shark declines in the Mediterranean over the past two centuries, and to evaluate the status of current populations and the ecological consequences of the loss of Mediterranean shark predators.
Pew 2004 Dalhousie University $125,000 To evaluate and compare the environmental impacts and management systems of American lobster fisheries in Maine and Nova Scotia, Canada, to determine the most economical and ecologically sound methods for catching lobster
Pew 2004 Dalhousie University Foundation, Inc. $252,000 The Lenfest Marine Extinction Project will quantify and map, on a global scale, past and prospective marine extinctions.
Pew 2004 Dalhousie University Foundation, Inc. $80,000 To reconstruct historical baselines for coastal fisheries and their supporting ecosystems in the United States. This research will provide a basic reference point to determine meaningful management and conservation goals, and inform the public and policy maker perceptions of the current state of the coastal ocean.
Pew 2004 Dalhousie University Foundation, Inc. $160,000 To examine the global implications on marine ecosystems of the loss of top predators due to overfishing.
Pew 2004 Drexel University $563,000 To determine the relationship between Pacific leatherback sea turtle migrations and oceanographic conditions and to assess the geographic overlap with commercial fisheries in order to provide conservation recommendations.
Pew 2000 Duke University $1,215,000 To conduct a comprehensive study of the ecological impacts of the worldwide pelagic longline industry.
Pew 2006 Duke University $50,000 To support the activities of K. David Hyrenbach as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2008 Duke University $124,000 To evaluate whether pelagic longline fishing at seamounts results in higher catch levels of target and protected species relative to fishing at non-seamount locations.
Pew 2008 Duke University $50,000 To support the activities of K. David Hyrenbach as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2008 Duke University $54,000 To develop a scientific method for evaluating the cumulative impacts of marine fisheries on sea turtles and for establishing science-based sustainable catch limits under the Endangered Species Act.
Pew 1998 Earthjustice $1,475,000 To launch the Ocean Law Project, a coordinated legal effort to restore marine ecosystems and fisheries.
Pew 1998 Earthjustice  $269,000 To implement the Ocean Law Project in the Mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific and Western Pacific regions.
Pew 1998 Earthjustice  $800,000 For public education on national forest protection issues.
Pew 2000 Earthjustice  $1,233,000 For continued support of the Ocean Law Project, a coordinated effort to restore marine ecosystems and fisheries.
Pew 2000 Earthjustice  $300,000 A final grant to support the Forest Service Timber Budget Reform Campaign.
Pew 2007 Earthjustice  $213,000 To reform New Englands groundfish fishery through adoption of new fishery management plan amendments, supported by strong new national regulations, that implement science-based annual catch limits, a new catch monitoring program, and accountability measures that end overfishing.
Pew 2008 Earthjustice  $212,000 To reform New Englands Atlantic herring fishery through adoption of a new fishery management plan amendment, supported by strong new national regulations, that implement science-based catch limits, a strong monitoring program, and related ecosystem-based fisheries reforms that help protect the forage base for ocean predators.
Pew 2002 Earthjustice - American Wilderness Campaign $5,500,000 To support the American Wilderness Campaign, to coordinate and support public education initiatives to enhance wilderness protection efforts in five states.
Pew 2004 Earthjustice - Campaign for Americas Wilderness  $3,250,000 To support the Campaign for Americas Wilderness and coordinate and encourage public-education initiatives to enhance state-based wilderness protection efforts.
Pew 2000 Earthjustice - Pew Wilderness Center  $5,520,000 To establish a center that will coordinate and support a public education initiative to enhance wilderness protection efforts by the U.S. conservation community.
Pew 2001 Earthjustice - Pew Wilderness Center  $4,668,000 For The Campaign for Americas Wilderness, to coordinate and support a public education initiative to enhance wilderness protection efforts by the U.S. conservation community.
Pew 2004 Ecotrust  $538,000 To conduct a quantitative full life cycle analysis of the environmental and socioeconomic impacts associated with salmon fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.
Pew 1999 Environmental Defense, Inc. $2,100,000 For continuation of the Alliance for Environmental Innovation.
Pew 2003 Environmental Defense, Inc. $300,000 For general operating support
Pew 2004 Environmental Defense, Inc. $250,000 For general operating support.
Pew 2004 Environmental Working Group $175,000 To quantify the amount of government subsidies given to the U.S. fishing industry on a regional level, and evaluate their contribution to overfishing, habitat disruption and conservation.
Pew 2004 Florida State University Research Foundation $23,000 Assess the impact of charter boats and other for-hire recreational fishing methods on fish species, especially those that are overfished or in decline.
Pew 2008 Florida State University Research Foundation $150,000 To support the activities of Daniel Conley
Pew 2002 Florida State University Research Foundation $240,000 To assess the impact of recreational fishing on marine stocks of economic importance in the United States.
Pew 2001 Friends of the Earth $300,000 In support of Fish for the Future, a public education campaign on Individual Fishing Quotas.
Pew 2001 Gulf Restoration Network $160,000 For a public education campaign to promote stronger fisheries management reform on overfishing, bycatch and habitat destruction in the Gulf of Mexico.
Pew 2006 Gulf Restoration Network $210,000 To support efforts to stop overfishing, secure conservation-based limits on unintended bycatch of marine life, and to conduct research and prepare a report on management reforms needed in the Gulf of Mexico menhaden fishery to reduce harvests to protect the forage needs of menhaden predators and reduce bycatch of sharks and marine mammals.
Pew 1999 Hawaii Audubon Society $120,000 For continued support of a public education effort to promote sustainable management policies for U.S. Western Pacific marine fisheries.
Pew 2006 Hawaii Audubon Society $60,000 To continue to expand the marine conservation and education effort begun in 1998, which is dedicated to advancing and implementing policies that protect and restore living marine resources and habitat in Hawaii and the Central Pacific.
Pew 1998 Hawaii Audubon Society  $50,000 For support of Hawaii Audubon Societys Western Pacific Fisheries Coalition, designed to address fisheries conservation reform in Hawaii.
Pew 1999 Hawaii Audubon Society  $120,000 For continued support of a public education effort to promote sustainable management policies for U.S. Western Pacific marine fisheries.
Pew 2001 Hawaii Audubon Society  $150,000 To promote sustainable management of marine fish populations in Hawaii and the Western Pacific through public education and administrative advocacy.
Pew 2000 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $110,000 For support of the Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology.
Pew 2000 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $110,000 For support of the Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology.
Pew 2004 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $327,000 To conduct a comprehensive examination of deep-sea fish species and fisheries to determine whether deep-sea fishing is ecologically sustainable.
Pew 2006 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $50,000 To support the activities of Hiroyuki Matsuda.
Pew 2000 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $150,000 For support of a public education effort to reform the nations fishery management system.
Pew 2006 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $600,000 To defend existing fisheries conservation policies and to advance a key recommendation of the Pew Oceans Commission through public education, policy analysis and strategic communications.
Pew 2006 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $305,000 To defend existing fisheries conservation policies and advance key recommendations of the Pew Oceans Commission through public education, policy analysis and strategic communications.
Pew 2006 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $600,000 To defend existing fisheries conservation policies and to advance a key recommendation of the Pew Oceans Commission through public education, policy analysis and strategic communications.
Pew 2007 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $350,000 To advocate for an end to domestic overfishing through effective implementation of the new Magnuson-Stevens Act and advance key ecosystem-based fisheries management recommendations of the Pew Oceans Commission through public education, policy analysis and strategic communications.
Pew 2008 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $400,000 To advocate for an end to domestic overfishing through effective implementation of the revised Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, to defend existing federal fisheries conservation policies, and to advance recommendations of the Pew Oceans Commission by promoting a national ocean policy and ecosystem-based fishery management system through public education, policy analysis and strategic communications.
Pew 2002 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $539,000 To expand the participation of conservation-minded fishermen in the deliberations of regional fishery management councils and in public education efforts within their own communities.
Pew 2004 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $280,000 To enhance national-level policy analysis, communication and education on the need to reform federal fisheries policies.
Pew 2005 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $305,000 To prevent the erosion of existing fisheries conservation policies.
Pew 2005 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $600,000 To conduct targeted public education and strategic communications to: (1) defend existing federal fisheries conservation practices; and (2) build support for reforming the nations regional fisheries management councils.
Pew 2004 Maryland, University of  $360,000 To evaluate the effectiveness of fisheries enforcement in the United States and identify options for improving the system.
Pew 2002 Miami, University of $795,194 To continue support for the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation.
Pew 2003 Miami, University of $2,923,000 To establish the Pew Institute for Ocean Science for the purpose of advancing scientific research and understanding of the problems affecting the sea, managing the Pew Fellows Program, and educating the public and policymakers on the impact that fishing and other human activities are having on the marine environment.
Pew 2004 Miami, University of $479,000 To advance ecosystem-based fishery management by evaluating the status of understudied fish and other marine species in several regions of the United States that are impacted by the commercial fishing industry.
Pew 2004 Miami, University of $3,000,000 To support the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
Pew 2005 Miami, University of $3,240,000 To support the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
Pew 2006 Miami, University of $25,000 The preservation of marine ecosystems through the work of The Pew Institute for Ocean Science, housed at the University of Miami.
Pew 2007 Miami, University of $3,000,000 To support the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
Pew 2008 Miami, University of $150,000 To support the activities of Andrew Baker.
Pew 2008 Miami, University of $150,000 To predict how coral reefs around the world will respond to warming temperatures and determine which reefs have the best chance of escaping severe climate change impacts
Pew 2004 MRAG Americas $312,000 To develop and compare a set of modeling approaches to help make ecosystem-based fisheries management practical to implement in the United States.
Pew 2004 MRAG Americas $183,000 To review the rebuilding efforts of United States federally managed fisheries and evaluate what is working, what isnt working and what needs to be changed for more effective rebuilding of fish stocks.
Pew 1998 National Audubon Society  $250,000 For conservation and recovery of Atlantic swordfish and sharks.
Pew 1998 National Audubon Society  $1,415,000 To support a campaign for permanent administrative protection of the largest remaining tracts of pristine old growth remaining in U.S. national forests.
Pew 1998 National Audubon Society  $225,000 For continued support of a campaign to secure permanent protection for old-growth forest stands on the 11 national forests of Arizona and New Mexico.
Pew 1999 National Audubon Society  $300,000 To protect old-growth forest and wilderness in the Southwest.
Pew 1999 National Audubon Society  $2,150,000 To complete a public education effort for permanent administrative protection of the largest remaining tracts of pristine old growth remaining in U.S. national forests.
Pew 2006 National Audubon Society  $120,000 To support efforts to mitigate habitat destruction, prevent expansion of industrial fishing into previously unfished areas and advance an ecosystem-based fisheries management blueprint for the Beaufort, Chukchi and Eastern Bering Sea large marine ecosystems.
Pew 2004 National Coalition for Marine Conservation $558,000 To secure an amendment to the Interstate Menhaden Management Plan that would reduce or eliminate fishing of menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay, in order to protect the broader ecosystem of the Bay
Pew 2005 National Coalition for Marine Conservation $200,000 To ensure a new regulatory cap on the industrial harvest of Atlantic menhaden is implemented and enforced.
Pew 2006 National Coalition for Marine Conservation $100,000 To support efforts to initiate new regulatory actions that will preserve adequate populations of forage fish which support healthy populations of predators, including numerous species of marine mammals, seabirds and fish.
Pew 2006 National Environmental Trust $361,000 To protect the food chain of the Southern Ocean marine environment, by securing precautionary, enforceable and ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill.
Pew 2007 National Environmental Trust $755,000 To protect the food chain of the Southern Ocean marine environment by securing precautionary, enforceable and ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill.
Pew 1998 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For core support.
Pew 1999 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support
Pew 2000 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support (Dec 14, 2000).
Pew 2000 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support (Mar 16).
Pew 2001 National Environmental Trust  $2,500,000 For general operating support.
Pew 2002 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support.
Pew 2003 National Environmental Trust  $5,000,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2003 National Environmental Trust  $4,000,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2004 National Environmental Trust  $100,000 In support of the Clear the Air Campaign
Pew 2004 National Environmental Trust  $100,000 In support of the Clean the Air Campaign.
Pew 2005 National Environmental Trust  $4,500,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2006 National Environmental Trust  $6,000,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2006 National Environmental Trust  $361,000 To protect the food chain of the Southern Ocean marine environment, by securing precautionary, enforceable and ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill.
Pew 2007 National Environmental Trust  $755,000 To protect the food chain of the Southern Ocean marine environment by securing precautionary, enforceable and ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill.
Pew 2007 National Environmental Trust  $2,455,000 To support a public education campaign to strengthen fuel efficiency standards for passenger vehicles and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.
Pew 2007 National Environmental Trust  $722,500 To support a public-education campaign to reform the Civil War era policies that govern hardrock mining on federal land in the United States to ensure greater protection of natural resources and taxpayer monies.
Pew 1997 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation  $90,000 To support construction of the National Environmental Education Center at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.
Pew 1998 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation  $300,000 To support construction of the National Environmental Education Center at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.
Pew 2002 Natural Resources Council of Maine $450,000 To restore the Penobscot River system to Atlantic salmon, American shad and other anadromous fish species.
Pew 2003 Natural Resources Council of Maine $200,000 To restore the Penobscot River system to Atlantic salmon, American shad and other anadromous fish species.
Pew 1998 Natural Resources Defense Council $1,453,000 To provide continued support for SeaWeb, a public education initiative on ocean issues.
Pew 2008 Nature Conservancy $150,000 To support the activities of Omar Defeo
Pew 1996 New England Aquarium Corporation $3,000,000 For the 1997 and 1998 Pew Fellow classes.
Pew 1998 New England Aquarium Corporation $769,000 To cover administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for the 1999 and 2000 fiscal years.
Pew 1998 New England Aquarium Corporation $375,000 For two films on the plight of sharks and marine protected areas for distribution to zoos and aquaria.
Pew 1998 New England Aquarium Corporation $2,631,000 For the 1999 and 2000 Pew Fellows classes.
Pew 2000 New England Aquarium Corporation $1,568,000 For administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for fiscal years 2000 through 2003.
Pew 2001 New England Aquarium Corporation $1,500,000 For the 2001 Pew Fellows class.
Pew 2002 New England Aquarium Corporation $230,000 For administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for July 2002 through December 2003.
Pew 2002 New England Aquarium Corporation $230,000 For administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for July 2002 through December 2003.
Pew 2004 New England Aquarium Corporation $369,000 To evaluate whether new gillnet fishing gears can reduce marine mammal, sea turtle and seabird incidental catch, while maintaining high target fish catch.
Pew 2002 New England Aquarium Corporation  $1,000,000 To continue support for the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation.
Pew 2004 New York Medical College $381,000 To evaluate the impact that antibiotics used in salmon aquaculture farms in Chile have on the surrounding marine environment and human health.
Pew 1998 Ocean Conservancy $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Mid-Atlantic marine fisheries.
Pew 1998 Ocean Conservancy $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for South Atlantic marine fisheries.
Pew 1999 Ocean Conservancy $80,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Gulf of Mexico marine fisheries.
Pew 2006 Ocean Conservancy  $180,000 To support a campaign to strengthen existing shark finning regulations of the European Union.
Pew 2007 Ocean Conservancy  $291,000 To enhance the advocacy component of The Pew Charitable Trusts Shark Conservation Project; provide science-based policy guidance to the Shark Alliance coalition; and contribute substantially to achieving the projects policy objectives.
Pew 2001 Oceana $5,035,000 In support of efforts to reduce the incidental bycatch of fish and other marine life, curtail particularly destructive fishing practices, and develop a stronger public constituency for ocean conservation.
Pew 2002 Oceana $4,500,000 In support of efforts to stop the destruction of marine life by curtailing the use of destructive fishing practices, assess and reduce the amount of fish and other marine life destroyed in the pursuit of target species, reduce ocean pollution and develop a strong and engaged constituency for ocean conservation.
Pew 2005 Oceana $4,500,000 General operating support for an international marine advocacy organization.
Pew 2007 Oceana $9,000,000 To strengthen marine conservation policies and improve Oceanas capacity to engage the public, conduct scientific analyses and build institutional support.
Pew 2001 Oceana  $5,035,000 In support of efforts to reduce the incidental bycatch of fish and other marine life, curtail particularly destructive fishing practices, and develop a stronger public constituency for ocean conservation.
Pew 2002 Oceana  $4,500,000 In support of efforts to stop the destruction of marine life by curtailing the use of destructive fishing practices, assess and reduce the amount of fish and other marine life destroyed in the pursuit of target species, reduce ocean pollution and develop a strong and engaged constituency for ocean conservation.
Pew 2003 Oceana  $5,625,000 To provide general operating support.
Pew 2005 Oceana  $4,500,000 General operating support for an international marine advocacy organization.
Pew 2006 Oceana  $673,000 This project focuses on pressing threats to the Beaufort, Chukchi and Eastern Bering Sea large marine ecosystems--threats that include the lack of an ecosystem-based management blueprint for the Arctic, habitat destruction and expansion of industrial fishing into previously unfished areas.
Pew 2006 Oceana  $4,500,000 General operating support for an international marine advocacy organization.
Pew 2006 Oceana  $465,000 To support a campaign to strengthen existing shark finning regulations of the European Union.
Pew 2007 Oceana  $9,000,000 To strengthen marine conservation policies and improve Oceanas capacity to engage the public, conduct scientific analyses and build institutional support.
Pew 2007 Oceana  $240,000 To support a substantial research, advocacy and outreach project for The Pew Charitable Trusts shark conservation project. This will provide the campaign with up-to-date shark fisheries and trade data, enhance the campaigns visibility and impact in Spain, and enable the project to have an effective presence in Brussels, thereby contributing substantially to achieving the projects policy objectives.
Pew 2009 Oceana  $4,500,000 To provide general operating support to strengthen Oceanas capacity to restore ocean ecosystems and protect marine biodiversity by engaging and educating the public, performing scientific analysis and nonpartisan research, and broadening institutional support.
Pew 2000 Oceana - Poseidon $4,032,000 For support of a new global marine organization.
Pew 2006 Pacific Environment and Resource Center $90,000 To support Pacific Environment and Resources Centers role in the Trusts U.S. Arctic large marine Ecosystem Protection Initiative.
Pew 2007 Pacific Environment and Resource Center $100,000 To support the activities of Fan Meng as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2008 Pacific Environment and Resource Center $150,000 To support the activities of Wen Bo
Pew 1999 Pacific Marine Conservation Council $100,000 To promote improved management of Pacific Coast commercial fish populations through effective implementation of the federal Sustainable Fisheries Act.
Pew 2001 Pacific Marine Conservation Council $130,000 For a public education campaign to promote stronger fisheries management of bycatch, overfishing and habitat destruction.
Pew 2006 Pacific Marine Conservation Council $185,000 To support efforts to prohibit the commercial harvest of bull kelp in Oregon state waters and protect vulnerable habitats from destructive bottom trawling.
Pew 2008 Point Reyes Bird Observatory $100,000 To evaluate the population status of the Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea, provide guidance on future monitoring of toothfish abundance and offer management recommendations to maintain a sustainable ecosystem.
Pew 2004 Reef Environmental Education Foundation $236,000 To evaluate whether the protection of historic Nassau grouper spawning site locations from fishing pressure will help recover these endangered populations.
Pew 2007 Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz $75,000 To support the activities of Andrew Constable as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2001 Research Foundation of State University of New York $2,530,000 To analyze and evaluate the human health impacts of persistent organic pollutants in farmed Atlantic salmon and wild Pacific salmon.
Pew 2002 Research Foundation of State University of New York $140,000 To develop a plan for communicating the findings of a pending scientific study
Pew 2004 Research Foundation of State University of New York $750,000 To establish the Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force that will develop and recommend ecosystem-based standards for the sustainable management of forage fisheries.
Pew 2004 Research Foundation of State University of New York $145,143 To advance ecosystem-based fishery management by evaluating the status of understudied fish and other marine species in several regions of the United States that are impacted by the commercial fishing industry.
Pew 2008 Research Foundation of State University of New York $195,000 To better monitor and manage local populations of lemon sharks, by determining whether immature and adult female lemon sharks remain near their birthplace.
Pew 2008 Research Foundation of State University of New York $3,000,000 To conduct scientific research regarding sustainable fisheries management and conservation of threatened and endangered fish.
Pew 2007 Rhode Island Foundation, University of $100,000 To support the activities of Marie Joelle Rochet as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2008 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds $150,000 To support the activities of Ben Sullivan
Pew 2009 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $800,000 For general operating support. http://www.pewtrusts.org/program_investments_grant_details.aspx?id=50800
Pew 2006 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $2,250,000 For general operating support. http://www.pewtrusts.org/program_investments_grant_details.aspx?id=22224
Pew 2005 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,000,000 To provide general operating support http://www.pewtrusts.org/program_investments_grant_details.aspx?id=20152
Pew 2004 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,000,000 To restore salmon populations in the Columbia and Snake Rivers http://www.pewtrusts.org/program_investments_grant_details.aspx?id=21022
Pew 2003 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,250,000 To restore salmon populations in the Columbia and Snake Rivers. http://www.pewtrusts.org/program_investments_grant_details.aspx?id=18060
Pew 2002 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,000,000 To restore salmon populations in the Snake/Columbia Rivers through partial removal of four dams. http://www.pewtrusts.org/program_investments_grant_details.aspx?id=17030
Pew 2000 SeaWeb  $1,200,000 For core programs.
Pew 2008 SeaWeb  $150,000 To support the activities of John Bernhardt Weller
Pew 1999 Seaweb - Public Education Initiative $1,600,000 For a public education initiative on ocean issues.
Pew 1999 Strategies for the Global Environment $3,500,000 For establishment of a national oceans commission.
Pew 2001 Strategies for the Global Environment $2,000,000 For completion of the work of the Pew Oceans Commission and its report to the nation on policies needed to restore and protect living marine resources in U.S. waters.
Pew 2004 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership $1,200,000 To support a national alliance of hunters and anglers working to protect fish and wildlife populations on U.S. public lands, and state and federal waters.
Pew 2005 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership $1,000,000 To more fully and effectively engage Americas 40 million hunters and anglers in an effort to protect critical wildlife and fish habitat.
Pew 2006 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership $750,000 To more fully and effectively engage Americas 40 million hunters and anglers in an effort to protect critical wildlife and fish habitat.
Pew 2008 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership $650,000 To protect western lands and valuable fish and wildlife habitat from commercial logging, road construction, hard rock mining and oil and gas development through the Roadless Area Conservation Rule and other conservation policies and administrative actions.
Pew 2009 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership $450,000 To protect western lands and valuable fish and wildlife habitats from commercial logging, road construction, hardrock mining and oil and gas development through the Roadless Area Conservation Rule and other conservation policies and administrative actions.
Pew 2002 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - Trout Unlimited National Office $1,250,000 In support of a national alliance of hunters and fishermen working to protect fish and wildlife populations on federal public lands.
Pew 2007 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - Trout Unlimited National Office $750,000 To continue public-education and outreach efforts to protect national forest roadless areas and modernize hardrock mining policy and also to secure federal administrative action that will prevent leasing and drilling where it overlaps with significant fish and wildlife resources.
Pew 1999 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - Wildlife Forever $2,338,000 To develop a new initiative to engage sport hunting and fishing organizations in high-profile national conservation policy debates related to protecting wildlife habitat on public lands.
Pew 2001 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - Wildlife Forever $1,520,000 For continued support of a coalition comprising sport hunting and fishing organizations engaging in protecting wildlife habitat on public lands.
Pew 2000 Tides Center $220,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 2001 Tides Center $2,530,000 To analyze and evaluate the human health impacts of persistent organic pollutants in farmed Atlantic salmon and wild Pacific salmon.
Pew 2001 Tides Center $181,000 To assess and publicize the risks and impacts of salmon farming in British Columbia on the environment and to eliminate or curtail the indiscriminate slaughter of seals and sea lions by salmon farmers.
Pew 2002 Tides Center $5,200,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 2002 Tides Center $3,208,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 2008 Tides Center $200,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 1995 Tides Center  $4,500,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 1996 Tides Center  $4,300,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 1997 Tides Center  $1,250,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 1998 Tides Center  $460,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 1999 Tides Center  $273,000 Note: The Tides Center appears to be a funding clearinghouse, and not all of their funds can be followed to individual grantees 
Pew 2004 United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund $1,020,000 To support a public education campaign on the importance of conservation-based federal fisheries management.
Pew 2005 United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund $1,000,000 To provide targeted public education and strategic communications on key issues that are of importance in maintaining and potentially strengthening the conservation provisions of federal fishing policies.
Pew 2006 United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund $1,000,000 To support a strategic public-education campaign focused on the key issues that are of importance in maintaining and potentially strengthening the conservation provisions of federal fishing policies.
Pew 1999 University of British Columbia, The $2,134,000 To establish a scientific group to study the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems and to produce a report on the state of the North Atlantic ocean.
Pew 2000 University of British Columbia, The $2,105,000 To apply a newly developed ecological model to assess the overall health of two major global marine regions, with a particular emphasis on the ecosystem impacts of commercial fishing.
Pew 2002 University of British Columbia, The $2,000,000 To apply a newly developed ecological model to assess the overall health of major global marine regions, with a particular emphasis on the ecosystem impacts of commercial fishing.
Pew 2002 University of British Columbia, The $2,000,000 To apply a newly developed ecological model to assess the overall health of major global marine regions, with a particular emphasis on the ecosystem impacts of commercial fishing.
Pew 2004 University of British Columbia, The $150,000 To complete an ecological model to assess the overall health of major global marine regions, with a particular emphasis on the ecosystem impacts of commercial fishing.
Pew 2004 University of British Columbia, The $401,000 To develop two interactive computer programs that will demonstrate the ecological and economic impacts of fisheries management decisions.
Pew 2004 University of British Columbia, The $298,000 To improve the scientific methodology for assessing the status of tuna populations in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Pew 2004 University of British Columbia, The $560,000 To develop an interactive computer program with high quality graphics that will demonstrate the ecological and economic impacts of fisheries management decisions.
Pew 2005 University of British Columbia, The $1,650,000 To refine and expand the Sea Around Us projects database of information and analysis on the ecosystem impacts of commercial fishing and the overall health of major global marine regions.
Pew 2006 University of British Columbia, The $2,500,000 To refine and expand the Sea Around Us projects database of information and analysis on the ecosystem impacts of commercial fishing and the overall health of the worlds oceans.
Pew 2007 University of British Columbia, The $100,000 To support the activities of Rashid Sumaila as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2008 University of British Columbia, The $1,172,000 To continue assessing and documenting the impact of fisheries on the worlds oceans.
Pew 2009 University of British Columbia, The $1,328,000 To assess and document the impact of fisheries and climate change on the worlds oceans, and to elucidate the costs and benefits of large, no-take marine reserves.
Pew 2009 University of British Columbia, The $1,328,000 To assess and document the impact of fisheries and climate change on the worlds oceans, and to elucidate the costs and benefits of large, no-take marine reserves.
Pew 2008 University of Queensland $150,000 To support the activities of Peter Mumby
Pew 2004 Washington, University of $376,000 To synthesize data on dedicated access fisheries across the globe in order to: (1) determine whether dedicated access fisheries programs lead to improved or deteriorated ecological conditions; and (2) identify what attributes of dedicated access programs, or of a fishery system itself, are most commonly associated with positive or negative impacts.
Pew 2006 Washington, University of $50,000 To support the activities of Patrick Christie as set forth in the grantees proposal.
Pew 2008 Washington, University of $150,000 To support the activities of Pablo Garcia Borboroglu
Pew 2001 Wilderness Society, The $245,400 To conduct nonpartisan study, analysis and research on the need for a federal marine wilderness policy.
Pew 2002 Wildlife Conservation Society $427,000 To assemble a team of scientists and independent fisheries managers to develop an ecosystem-based methodology for managing fisheries.
Pew 2008 Wildlife Conservation Society $150,000 To support the activities of Matthieu Le Corre
Pew 2004 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $600,000 To develop a suite of model science-based environmental standards for marine aquaculture to inform policy makers at federal and state levels.
Pew 2005 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $285,000 To develop a model suite of protective environmental standards for marine aquaculture to inform the policy debate at federal and state levels.
Pew 2008 World Wildlife Fund  $101,000 To strengthen coordination between the Pew Environment Groups Antarctic Krill Conservation Project and the World Wildlife Funds Antarctic and Southern Ocean Initiative.
1 Packard 2008 American Bird Conservancy $275,000 To support efforts to reduce accidental seabird bycatch and the deliberate take of endangered seabirds in Peruvian and Ecuadorian fisheries
2 Packard 2008 Ashoka $550,000 To undertake Phase II of a design systems solutions for sustainable fisheries
3 Packard 2008 Ashoka $240,000 To design systems solutions for sustainable fisheries
4 Packard 2009 Ashoka $1,050,000 To complete a design for systems solutions of sustainable fisheries
5 Packard 2010 Ashoka $1,050,000 To complete a design for systems solutions of sustainable fisheries
6 Packard 2009 Australian Antarctic Division $120,000 To complete the development of a device that aims to reduce seabird bycatch mortality in pelagic longline fisheries
7 Packard 2010 BirdLife International $250,000 To promote adoption and evaluation of seabird bycatch mitigation measures in tuna longline fisheries in the Pacific
8 Packard 2010 Blue Ocean Institute $225,000 For producing materials to foster greater public awareness of ocean issues and to promote sustainable seafood to consumers and retailers
9 Packard 2008 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University $123,625 To analyze and assess the potential principles, standards, and practical guidelines for multi-species, producer-based fisheries certification
10 Packard 2008 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University $57,500 To estimate the biomass of jumbo squid in the Gulf of California for incorporation into a squid fishery management plan
11 Packard 2010 California Environmental Associates $150,000 To develop a trends analysis of progress in the sustainable seafood movement in the U.S., to support research related to the Fisheries strategy development process, and to provide limited technical assistance to market-related grantee efforts
12 Packard 2010 California Environmental Associates $131,248 To design and lead an expert-driven assessment and plan to reform commercial fisheries worldwide
13 Packard 2010 Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society $600,000 To continue Sustainable Seafood Canada's SeaChoice program
14 Packard 2011 Center for Public Integrity $250,000 For an investigative report on black market fisheries along the Pacific Rim
15 Packard 2010 Chefs Collaborative $200,000 For Seafood Solutions, a project promoting sustainable seafood to the culinary community
16 Packard 2010 Chefs Collaborative $100,000 For Seafood Solutions, a project promoting sustainable seafood to the culinary community
17 Packard 2010 Chefs Collaborative $75,000 For continued support of Seafood Solutions, a project promoting sustainable seafood to the culinary community
18 Packard 2009 Criterion Ventures, LLC $50,000 To provide information to marine fisheries grantees on selecting an organizational structure that best aligns with mission-driven ventures intended to shift market behavior
19 Packard 2010 Criterion Ventures, LLC $250,000 To lead the development of a five-year Marine Fisheries subprogram assessment through a first phase of synthesis, stakeholder engagement, and initial prospective strategy framing
20 Packard 2010 Criterion Ventures, LLC $200,000 To engage grantees, funders and other stakeholders to develop a five-year subprogram strategy through the second phase of stakeholder engagement, strategy synthesis, and framing
21 Packard 2009 Ecotrust $247,000 To compile a comprehensive series of maps that illustrate the commercial and consumptive recreational fishing use patterns and values along the Oregon Coas
22 Packard 2008 Environmental Defense Fund $550,000 For the major buyer partnership strategy, consumer awareness, and efforts to explore sustainable fish feed options
23 Packard 2009 Environmental Defense Fund $375,000 To build effective conservation leadership within fishery management councils
24 Packard 2010 Environmental Defense Fund $610,000 For the Fisheries Forum
25 Packard 2008 Fishchoice $86,000 For activities including website and database development to bring together suppliers and buyers of sustainable seafood
26 Packard 2009 Fishchoice $445,000 For general support
27 Packard 2008 Friends of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories $17,500 For the translation, publication, and dissemination of fundamental details on the shark and ray fishery in the Gulf of California
28 Packard 2010 Greenpeace Fund $600,000 To continue a North American retailer campaign
29 Packard 2009 H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment $100,000 For a collaborative effort within and among Arctic states and in consultation with key stakeholders to improve Arctic fisheries governance systems
30 Packard 2008 Iemanya Oceanica $50,000 To engage artisanal shark fishers in sustainable fishing practices
31 Packard 2009 Iemanya Oceanica $50,000 To engage artisanal shark fishers in sustainable fishing practices
32 Packard 2010 Innovation Network $50,000 For a capacity assessment of the U.S. oceans advocacy field
33 Packard 2005 Institute for Fisheries Resources $150,000 To establish a national organization of progressive fishermen
34 Packard 2006 Institute for Fisheries Resources $100,000 To establish a national organization of progressive fishermen
35 Packard 2007 Institute for Fisheries Resources $100,000 To establish a national organization of progressive fishermen
36 Packard 2007 Institute for Fisheries Resources $75,000 To support a coalition of diverse stakeholders to ensure that industrial fish farming does not harm aquatic ecosystem integrity, existing wild fisheries, or coastal communities
37 Packard 2008 Institute for Fisheries Resources $425,000 To expand the Commercial Fisherman of America ($150,000), to support the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations ($200,000), and for general support of the Institute for Fisheries Resources ($75,000)
38 Packard 2010 Institute for Fisheries Resources $100,000 For general support
39 Packard 2009 Kadesh & Associates, LLC $120,000 To provide strategic advice and consultation services on Federal ocean policy issues for Marine Fisheries Subprogram grantees and staff
40 Packard 2010 Kadesh & Associates, LLC $70,000 To provide strategic advice and consultation services on Federal ocean policy issues for Marine Fisheries subprogram grantees and staff
41 Packard 2010 Manta Consulting $95,000 For a field-level assessment, creation of an evaluation framework, and distribution of findings on innovative financing mechanisms for marine and fisheries conservation funders
42 Packard 2008 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $125,000 For work intended to ensure the full implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act and to promote the sustainable management of forage fish species ($100,000) and for general support ($25,000)
43 Packard 2009 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $125,000 To continue implementing the ecosystem components of the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act and to begin laying the groundwork for the next reauthorization
44 Packard 2010 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $125,000 To continue implementing the ecosystem components of the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act
45 Packard 2009 Marine Stewardship Council $4,050,000 To evaluate the environmental impacts that have resulted from the Marine Stewardship Council‘s fishery certification program during the first ten years of operations
46 Packard 2008 Marine Stewardship Council $1,506,000 For general support
47 Packard 2008 Marine Stewardship Council $250,000 To transfer project coordination of the Wal-Mart engagement to the Marine Stewardship Council, and to undertake a study of the feasibility of developing an aquaculture certification program
48 Packard 2007 Marine Stewardship Council $1,500,000 For core support, continued reform implementation, and capacity development
49 Packard 2006 Marine Stewardship Council $1,500,000 For core support, reform implementation, and capacity development at the Marine Stewardship Council
50 Packard 2006 Marine Stewardship Council $100,000 For a challenge grant to increase the presence and profile of the MSC in North America
51 Packard 2006 Marine Stewardship Council $87,900 For development of a 3 to 5 year business plan
52 Packard 2005 Marine Stewardship Council $1,750,000 For core support, reform implementation, and capacity development at the Marine Stewardship Counci
53 Packard 2010 Marine Stewardship Council $125,000 To evaluate the environmental impacts that have resulted from the Marine Stewardship Council‘s fishery certification program during the first ten years of operations
54 Packard 2010 Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation $700,000 For the Sustainable Seafood Initiative
55 Packard 2009 National Coalition for Marine Conservation $30,000 To develop guidance for conservation of forage fish through an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management
56 Packard 2010 National Council for Science and the Environment $25,000 For the 11th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: Our Changing Ocean
57 Packard 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council $125,000 To support efforts to rebuild fisheries and affect oceans policy reform at the federal level
58 Packard 2010 Nature Conservancy $100,000 For community engagement on the Washington coast toward a more sustainable future for marine fisheries and ecosystems
59 Packard 2010 Nature Conservancy $234,600 To continue to develop and refine the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Decision Support effort to provide salient and credible information to bear on the many decisions that will be made in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
60 Packard 2009 Nature Conservancy $292,313 To promote new and sustained federal funding for ocean conservation, restoration, and planning
61 Packard 2009 Nature Conservancy $200,000 To introduce and strengthen the concept of marine spatial planning in marine policy
62 Packard 2009 Nature Conservancy $50,000 To ensure Marine Resource Committees near Washington's Olympic Peninsula Outer Coast are established with restoration, protection, and/or conservation planning projects underway
63 Packard 2006 Nature Conservancy $2,000,000 For the Central Coast Trawl Permit Buyback project
64 Packard 2005 Nature Conservancy $199,000 To work with marine practitioners to incorporate ecosystem-based management site prioritization tools into planning and conservation work
65 Packard 2010 Nature Conservancy $100,000 For community engagement on the Washington coast toward a more sustainable future for marine fisheries and ecosystems
65 Packard 2008 New England Aquarium Corporation $310,000 For the Sustainable Fisheries Initiative, a private-sector-NGO partnership for more sustainable seafood consumption
66 Packard 2010 New England Aquarium Corporation $570,000 For public outreach and corporate partnership efforts for the Sustainable Seafood Program
67 Packard 2008 Ocean Conservancy $425,000 For continued support to protect fish populations in the Pacific and North Pacific regional fisheries by linking seafood sustainability to policy reform
68 Packard 2009 Ocean Conservancy $500,000 To achieve more comprehensive ocean management and improved fisheries management at the federal level
69 Packard 2010 Ocean Conservancy $250,000 For general support
70 Packard 2010 Ocean Conservancy $40,000 For social media strategy development
71 Packard 2009 Ocean Foundation $250,000 For communications and development, capacity building, conservation tourism, small-scale fisheries management, and sea turtle conservation in the Gulf of California
72 Packard 2010 Oceana $450,000 To continue work on U.S. Arctic Large Marine Ecosystems conservation
73 Packard 2010 Oceana $325,000 For conservation activities in the California Current region, and for a programmatic assessment
74 Packard 2009 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife $35,000 For stakeholder outreach and collaboration in Oregon's marine spatial planning process
75 Packard 2010 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife $296,000 For a shore-side socioeconomic analysis of coastal and ocean uses for the revisions of Oregon's Territorial Sea Plan
76 Packard 2009 Organizational Research Services $150,000 To evaluate the effectiveness and accomplishments of the Marine Fisheries subprogram Arctic fisheries management initiative
77 Packard 2005 Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Incorporated $200,000 For strengthening marine conservation within the fishing industry
78 Packard 2010 Port Orford Ocean Resource Team $200,000 For a community based marine conservation effort to protect nearshore reef systems off the southern Oregon coast
79 Packard 2009 RARE $190,000 To incorporate the Fisheries Fellows technical assistance program into the Rare Pride social marketing campaign
80 Packard 2008 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $910,455 For the Sustainable Fisheries Fund
81 Packard 2009 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $625,000 For the Sustainable Fisheries Fund
82 Packard 2010 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $900,000 For the Sustainable Fisheries Fund
83 Packard 2010 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $4,000,000 For grantmaking and program administration for the California Coastal and Marine Initiative
84 Packard 2009 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $5,100,000 For grantmaking and program administration for the California Coastal and Marine Initiative (CCMI)
85 Packard 2008 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $6,000,000 For grantmaking and program administration for the California Coastal Marine Initiative
86 Packard 2007 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $6,000,000 For grantmaking and program administration of the California Coastal and Marine Initiative
87 Packard 2006 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $6,000,000 For grantmaking and administrative expenses related to the California Coastal and Marine Initiative in 2006
88 Packard 2005 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $6,000,000 For the California Coastal and Marine Initiative
89 Packard 2008 San Diego Society of Natural History Balboa Park $33,000 To investigate the biodiversity, community structure, and behavior of fishes and invertebrates from deep-reef and seamount habitats of the Gulf of California
90 Packard 2005 Seaweb $23,575 For a two-day meeting to convene leaders in the sustainable food and sustainable seafood movements
91 Packard 2005 Seaweb $25,000 For consumer market research on farmed and wild salmon
92 Packard 2005 Seaweb $125,000 For campaigns to protect the beluga sturgeon and to promote sustainable caviar
93 Packard 2005 Seaweb $136,526 For Phase II funding in 2006 for The Philanthropic Awareness Initiative
94 Packard 2005 Seaweb $250,000 To support a series of communications trainings and media-related events to advance ocean conservation in Papua New Guinea and Fiji
95 Packard 2005 Seaweb $2,159,960 For continued support to the Communications Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS)
96 Packard 2006 Seaweb $7,500 For development of presentations for the Philanthropic Awareness Initiative
97 Packard 2006 Seaweb $50,000 For meetings to convene leaders in the sustainable food and sustainable seafood movements in North America
98 Packard 2006 Seaweb $194,479 For COMPASS to organize and co-host the California Current EBM Science conference in 2007
99 Packard 2006 Seaweb $236,118 For COMPASS to research, capture, and communicate ecosystem-based management case studies
100 Packard 2006 Seaweb $245,974 To design and implement a communications initiative on marine ecosystem-based management
101 Packard 2006 Seaweb $250,000 To provide support for the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative
102 Packard 2006 Seaweb $1,300,000 For Seafood Choices Alliance
103 Packard 2007 Seaweb $7,000 For participation in Stanford University's Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability Program
104 Packard 2007 Seaweb $25,000 For a communications initiative on marine ecosystem-based management
105 Packard 2007 Seaweb $40,000 For an organizational assessment and strategic planning for COMPASS
106 Packard 2007 Seaweb $100,000 For general support
107 Packard 2007 Seaweb $113,000 For general support
108 Packard 2007 Seaweb $115,000 For organizational assessment and business planning for the Seafood Choices Alliance
109 Packard 2007 Seaweb $175,000 For meetings to convene leaders in the sustainable seafood movement and coordination of their efforts to increase the amount of sustainable seafood purchased
110 Packard 2007 Seaweb $250,000 To provide support for the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative
111 Packard 2007 Seaweb $250,000 For bridge funding for Communications Partnership for Science and the Sea
112 Packard 2007 Seaweb $250,000 For a six-month bridge grant to support ongoing activities of the Seafood Choices Alliance
113 Packard 2007 Seaweb $400,000 For a series of communications trainings and media-related events to advance ocean conservation in Papua New Guinea and Fiji
114 Packard 2008 Seaweb $97,600 For organizational assessment and business planning
115 Packard 2008 Seaweb $249,665 To serve the communications needs of the NGO community to promote ecosystem-based management
116 Packard 2008 Seaweb $250,000 For ongoing support of the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative
117 Packard 2008 Seaweb $425,000 To increase the profile and relevance of ocean conservation in the Western Pacific by working with journalists, scientists, conservation practitioners, and community leaders
118 Packard 2008 Seaweb $3,000,000 For the expansion and increased effectiveness of the Seafood Choices Alliance
119 Packard 2009 Seaweb $250,000 For general support
120 Packard 2010 Seaweb $250,000 To support activities of the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative to improve philanthropy sector communications during 2010
121 Packard 2010 Seaweb $600,000 To support a marine-focused communications program in the Western Pacific
122 Packard 2010 Seaweb $812,000 For sustainable markets work through the Seafood Choices Alliance
123 Packard 2010 SeaWeb $812,500 For sustainable markets work through the Seafood Choices Alliance
124 Packard 2010 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs SEE $250,000 To further develop a Future of Fish venture and innovation hub that would realign seafood supply chain functions to better enable sustainable practices
125 Packard 2010 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs SEE $250,000 For a planning grant to develop an implementation plan and recruit leadership to launch the Oceans+1 venture that will address gaps in the sustainable seafood marketplace
126 Packard 2010 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs SEE $85,000 To assess improved alignment or leverage of grantee needs around data production, access, and knowledge sharing
127 Packard 2010 Spitfire Strategies, LLC $810,000 For strategic communications support to the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, for communications support to Fisheries, and for development of an ocean policy communications campaign
128 Packard 2010 Surfrider Foundation $225,000 For building community support for protection of coastal ecosystems in Oregon and Washington
129 Packard 2011 Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation $59,938 For board development and building evaluative capacity
130 Packard 2008 Sustainable Fishery Advocates $550,000 For the expansion of FishWise, a point-of-sale sustainable seafood labeling program
131 Packard 2008 Sustainable Fishery Advocates $225,000 For organizational effectiveness and capacity-building support for Sustainable Fisheries Advocates and FishChoice
132 Packard 2010 Sustainable Fishery Advocates $250,000 For the expansion of FishWise, a point-of-sale sustainable seafood labeling program
133 Packard 2008 Trust for Conservation Innovation $50,000 For organizational assessment and strategic planning for the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
134 Packard 2009 Trust for Conservation Innovation $1,299,912 For the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to reduce environmental impacts of aquaculture and improve the sustainability of reduction fisheries used in fish feed
135 Packard 2009 Trust for Conservation Innovation $1,264,609 For a project of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to develop actionable fisheries information and fisheries improvement partnerships
136 Packard 2009 Trust for Conservation Innovation $100,000 For the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to evaluate the feasibility of new fisheries in San Felipe, Baja California, and the establishment of related supply chains
137 Packard 2009 Trust for Conservation Innovation $30,000 To develop a strategic communications plan for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
138 Packard 2008 University of Arizona $1,373,900 For Phase II of the Ecosystem-Based Management Regional Initiative project on small-scale fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico
139 Packard 2009 University of Arizona $600,000 To develop and begin the implementation of long-term fishery monitoring programs in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico
140 Packard 2009 University of California, San Diego $72,000 For the conservation and management of reef fish spawning aggregations in the Gulf of California
141 Packard 2008 University of Connecticut, Storrs $75,898 To evaluate the use of habitat proxies and habitat suitability models to identify the co-occurrence of fisheries and vulnerable habitats during fisheries assessment
142 Packard 2008 University of Maine at Machias $78,839 For assessing the impact of MSC certification on management and conservation in the New Zealand Hoki and Orange Roughy fisheries
143 Packard 2008 University of Washington $157,500 To establish ecological and life history baselines for fisheries management
144 Packard 2009 Wild Salmon Center $105,000 To catalyze market incentives that can activate improvements in Asian and Russian Far East wild salmon fisheries
145 Packard 2010 Wild Salmon Center $225,000 To continue to catalyze market incentives that can activate improvements in Asian and Russian Far East wild salmon fisheries
146 Packard 2008 World Wildlife Fund $324,750 For international fisheries policy activities
147 Packard 2008 World Wildlife Fund $130,000 To test and promote the use of alternative fishing gears for shrimp and fish among small-scale regional fishermen
148 Packard 2009 World Wildlife Fund $475,000 To transform fisheries management in the Upper Gulf of California
149 Packard 2009 World Wildlife Fund $250,000 For international fisheries policy activities
150 Packard 2009 World Wildlife Fund $153,000 For coastal fisheries and marine protected area management in the Solomon Islands
151 Packard 2010 World Wildlife Fund $1,900,000 To promote market-based improvements of fisheries worldwide by harnessing and leveraging purchasing power at various points in the seafood value chain
152 Packard 2010 World Wildlife Fund $400,000 To eliminate harmful subsidies for fisheries and to secure adoption of rights-based management by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
153 Packard 2010 World Wildlife Fund $380,000 To complete the development of global aquaculture standards and support small scale capacity building
Walton 2009 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $250,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Conservation International Foundation $20,872,382 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Conservation International Foundation $10,989,768 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Conservation International Foundation  $21,319,202 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $80,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Ecology Project International $342,403 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Ecology Project International  $390,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Ecology Project International  $444,250 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Ecotrust  $125,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Environmental Defense Fund $5,073,039 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Environmental Defense Fund  $1,500,512 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Environmental Defense Fund  $13,563,680 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Environmental Law Institute $136,903 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Environmental Law Institute  $136,903 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 John G. Shedd Aquarium Society  $100,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society  $62,500 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Marine Stewardship Council $1,675,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Marine Stewardship Council  $1,640,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Marine Stewardship Council  $1,700,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation  $1,000,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Nature Conservancy $341,119 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Nature Conservancy $150,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Ocean Conservancy $1,980,160 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Ocean Conservancy  $1,429,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Ocean Conservancy  $2,352,919 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 RARE  $186,773 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Seaweb $415,322 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Seaweb  $227,820 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Stewardship Council Limited  $820,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Trust for Conservation Innovation $851,348 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 Trust for Conservation Innovation  $500,298 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Trust for Conservation Innovation  $1,037,913 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 Wild Salmon Center $270,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 Wild Salmon Center  $425,000 Grant Description not available
Walton 2008 World Wildlife Fund $889,051 Grant Description not available
Walton 2007 World Wildlife Fund  $355,285 Grant Description not available
Walton 2009 World Wildlife Fund  $624,944 Grant Description not available
Moore 2010 Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society of British Columbia  $419,978 Supports developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative.
Moore 2007 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $912,953 Support implementation of DAPs in New England through promoting regulatory reform and leading the region in sector governance and monitoring.
Moore 2010 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $538,821 To provide expertise and support to ensure appropriate and durable implementation of sectors for groundfish, expansion of catch shares into other bottom-dwelling fisheries, and regulations and design elements for sectors that address sustainable fishing communities.
Moore 2005 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association  $491,744 To align economic incentives with conservation in the Georges Bank Fixed Gear Sector for gillnet fishermen and to implement a video-based electronic monitoring system for bycatch and catch of groundfish and other species. Outcomes for this grant include verification of video-based electronic monitoring for hook & line gear, analysis of video-based electronic monitoring for gillnet and small-mesh gear, and implementation and increased stakeholder awareness of Georges Bank dedicated access privilege (DAP) programs.
Moore 2010 Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative $2,257,226 Supports enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee’s transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements.
Moore 2008 Communications Partnership for Science and the Sea $710,262 Connect regional scientists, journalists, decisionmakers, and their key constituents to one another and to ensure that the critical science needed for effective Area-Based Management is understood, valued, and applied in Massachusetts and New England. This purpose will be achieved through the activities of the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS).
Moore 2009 David Suzuki Foundation $130,334 Support of the David Suzuki Foundation’s efforts to maintain a targeted constituency in British Columbia that is supportive of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area that includes a spatial management plan and network of marine protected areas.
Moore 2005 Duke University $3,066,000 Develop a global perspective on the incidental catch of seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals. In collaboration with in-country scientists, national fisheries management authorities, and regional fisheries management organizations, Duke researchers will synthesize and analyze bycatch data for US and international fisheries. Outcomes for this grant include improvement of fishing and bycatch databases and analysis of world bycatch rates.
Moore 2005 Environmental Defense Fund $1,080,249 To assess dedicated access privilege (DAP) programs to create a credible view of the strengths, weaknesses, and practical applicability of these approaches. DAPs give individual fishermen, communities, or cooperatives a secure share of a scientifically determined sustainable level of catch, with a goal of achieving economic and ecosystem benefits. Outcomes for this grant include assessment of results of existing DAP programs in North America, analysis of business aspects from other public trust resource usage situations, and evaluation of criteria for the application of DAP programs.
Moore 2006 Environmental Defense Fund $904,661 Supports Environmental Defense to work with the Pacific Fishery Management Council and other stakeholders to transition the management of the Pacific Groundfish trawl fishery to an Individual Quota system. A key outcome is that the Pacific Groundfish Trawl Individual Quota program serves as a model dedicated access privilege (DAP) program meeting ecological, economic, and social standards. 
Moore 2007 Environmental Defense Fund $1,000,000 Support Environmental Defense and its partners in creating the California Fisheries Fund (CFF). The CFF will provide fishers with sustainable access to capital for the research, business planning, and implementation of new fisheries management programs to improve the conservation and financial performance of California fisheries.
Moore 2006 Environmental Defense Fund $156,110 Disseminate the results of a DAP analysis that examined successes and shortcomings of DAP programs in North America and made recommendations to address ecological, economic, and social objectives in implementation. A key outcome of the grant is that stakeholders in New England and on the West Coast have a heightened sophistication and understanding of DAP programs.
Moore 2007 Environmental Defense Fund $1,980,192 This grant supports implementation of Dedicated Access Privileges (DAPs, also known as "catch shares") in the entire groundfish fishery and in the offshore sea scallop fishery, and evaluates feasibility of implementation in a nearshore locally-managed bay scallop fishery. Through implementation in the carefully chosen portfolio of fisheries, targeted political advocacy work, and scientific knowledge around DAP performance and biological assessments, Environmental Defense will help to make DAPs the default management mechanism for New England fisheries.
Moore 2008 Environmental Defense Fund $1,891,251 Builds on previous work to establish an individual fishing quota (IFQ) management system in the trawl sector of the Pacific groundfish fishery. In the renewal grant, EDF will work to ensure that the rules and implementing measures of the trawl sector are finalized as a model of sustainable fisheries management and will work to initiate a formal Pacific Fishery Management Council process to extend quota share management to other sectors in the Pacific groundfish fishery.
Moore 2010 Environmental Defense Fund $2,091,793 This grant to Environmental Defense Fund supports creating a durable and efficient Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to refine and improve fishing regulations to increase flexibility and reduce costs, and used to work with fishermen directly to improve their performance under the catch share.
Moore 2007 Gulf of Maine Research Institute $1,065,058 Support a Sector Extension Program at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, to provide technical and scientific expertise to fishing sectors (a form of Dedicated Access Privilege) in the New England region.
Moore 2010 Gulf of Maine Research Institute $1,567,880 Support work to improve the sector management system for New England’s groundfish industry, provide convening and technical assistance to the monkfish fishery as it develops a new catch share system, assist groundfish sectors to adopt cleaner fishing technology, and provide region-wide outreach and education to the region’s fishing industry, fisheries management agencies, and policy makers.
Moore 2006 Gulf of Marine Research Institute $467,000 Build communication within the New England commercial fishing community and build support for new forms of management, including DAPs. As a result of this grant, collaboration is strengthened and a common understanding of alternative management approaches is shared among members of the commercial fishing community who participate in FishTank, and sustainable and viable groundfish management options are brought before the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC).
Moore 2007 Island Institute $396,328 Support a change in fisheries regulations in New England that enables area and community-based management that rebuilds and sustains fish stocks. This grant will focus on gaining approval by the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) of an alternative to amend the Multispecies Fishery Management Plan.
Moore 2005 Island Press $125,000 To create a book designed to advance a new approach to marine science, policy, and management. Outcomes for this grant include publication and dissemination of “Marine Conservation Biology: the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity.”
Moore 2008 Living Oceans Society $239,835 Supports the Living Oceans Society to partner with a team of scientists to conduct a series of research dives to further describe the functional role of British Columbia’s deep sea corals within the coastal-marine ecosystem. The grant will facilitate science-based interim protection efforts for deep sea corals and unite fisheries management and Area-Based Management (ABM) in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process.
Moore 2010 Living Oceans Society $282,626 Supports developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative
Moore 2006 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $469,574 To integrate data on bycatch and habitat damage for all major commercial fishing gears. The output of this grant includes a stakeholder-driven analysis of the ecological impacts of fishing gear in British Columbia and Atlantic Canada with recommendations to reform fisheries management.
Moore 2007 Meridian Institute $160,504 To coordinate the strategies of grantees working on reforming fisheries management in New England, and to engage Joint Ocean Commission staff with key individuals at the federal level to increase political and financial support for the reforms.
Moore 2006 Meridian Institute  $210,045 Foster a supportive and informed consitutency for Area-Based Management in the US. The key outcome of this grant is an ocean management constituency of key policymakers and managers at the national level, as well as Massachusetts, that understands and calls for the implementation of comprehensive Area-Based Management in US waters.
Moore 2010 Nanwakolas Council  $1,154,019 Supports their leadership within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative. The grant also supports the development and integration of smaller-scale community and regional-level Marine Spatial Plans, which will in turn help achieve a good PNCIMA Marine Spatial Plan.
Moore 2005 National Academy of Sciences $250,000 Survey aimed at identifying barriers to the effective management of coastal and marine resources, particularly in the developing world. The Academy's Ocean Studies Board will review past and current efforts to develop and implement marine conservation policies in developing nations. The survey will lead to recommendations on ways in which the United States, working in partnership with others, can help strengthen the marine protection and management capacity of these nations. Outcomes for this grant include recommendations for strengthening international marine protection and management capacity.
Moore 2010 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $1,145,000 Support the transition of U.S. fisheries to catch share programs by encouraging fishermen to pursue innovative management strategies through a competitive grant award process.
Moore 2007 Natural Resources Defense Council $314,900 To encourage a new generation of bycatch minimization measures within the Pacific groundfish fishery. NRDC will provide information and technical analyses to facilitate Pacific Fishery Management Council decision-making to ensure the trawl groundfish DAP contains key conservation design elements. NRDC will also advocate for sound rebuilding plans for overfished species and strong bycatch mitigation measures.
Moore 2007 NOAA National MPA Center $555,333 Supports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Protected Area Center (MPA Center) to create the California Human Uses Atlas. The Atlas will provide GIS data layers, displayed as maps, of the full suite of human uses of state and federal waters off California through a rapid and repeatable process to inform comprehensive area-based management.
Moore 2006 NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center $664,342 To develop Atlantis ecosystem integrated models that allow policy makers, stakeholders, and scientists to evaluate the effects of management efforts on ecosystem services. A key output of the grant will be Atlantic ecosystem models of the U.S. West Coast.
Moore 2006 Ocean Conservancy $252,096 Independent evaluation of The Ocean Conservancy’s Overfishing Scorecard and a research project to assess the current state of understanding of Area-Based Management by key stakeholders and decision-makers in the US. Key outputs of the grant include recommendations for improvement of the Overfishing Scorecard and market research and analysis to guide education, outreach, and communication strategies in support of Area-Based Management.
Moore 2006 Ocean Conservancy $517,756 To survey public understanding of ocean threats, and to engage, educate, and broaden a constituency in Massachusetts that is supportive of comprehensive Area-Based Management. A key outcome is that targeted constituencies in the state of Massachusetts are supportive of comprehensive area-based management for state waters.
Moore 2005 Oregon State University $13,543,700 Supports the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO), a research consortium involving marine scientists from four universities. Through this large-scale marine program, PISCO researchers are working to understand the dynamics of the ocean ecosystems along more than 1,200 miles of the US West Coast. Outcomes for this grant include identification, and increased understanding of, West Coast ecological patterns; increased use of science in marine policy, management, and stewardship decisions; improved accessibility of marine ecosystem data; and increased PISCO institutional capacity.
Moore 2006 Pacific Marine Conservation Council $247,024 To work with scientists, managers, and local fishermen to develop a management system including an area-based allocation for the Orford Reef in Oregon’s Nearshore Fisheries Management Plan. A key outcome of the grant is an area-based allocation for blue and black rockfish in the Port Orford Community Stewardship Area.
Moore 2010 Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission $247,769 Supports developing a structure and process for regional Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning, consistent with the requirements of the National Ocean Policy. Funding will be used to assess capacity and needs for planning, develop an appropriate regional planning structure, and create a collaborative planning process for the region.
Moore 2007 Penobscot East Resource Center $563,000 To promote implementation of an area-based groundfish management system that serves as a model for governance and sustainable fisheries in New England. The outcome of this grant is adoption of a plan by the New England Fishery Management Council for implementation of an area-based pilot project in the Downeast area of the Gulf of Maine. 
Moore 2005 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $674,450 Supports the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership Fund. The Resources Legacy Fund Foundation is creating a five-year strategic plan poised to advance efforts to develop and implement comprehensive multi-use management in Massachusetts. Outcomes for this grant include formation of the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership Fund (MOPF) and five-year strategy, and development of a science plan to support comprehensive management.
Moore 2006 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $121,514 Supports a small working group of lawyers to perform a legal, regulatory, and institutional gap analysis to understand the existing framework for Area-Based Management in the state waters of California. The outputs include a findings and recommendations document to be used to advance area-based management in California.
Moore 2008 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $953,224 Builds off the recently published law review article that contains an analysis of existing gaps in California’s legal and regulatory marine management system and promotes adoption of Area-Based Management (ABM) to protect California’s marine ecosystems (#1188). With this subsequent grant, RLF will partner with the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University to conduct a deeper evaluation of the scientific and institutional framework necessary for ABM in California state waters and communicate the benefits and opportunities for better stewardship through ABM to key opinion leaders in California.
Moore 2005 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $3,220,574 To implement California's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA). The statewide network, as authorized in the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act, is designed to protect key segments of California's coastal ocean ecosystem through an expanded system of Marine Protected Areas. This grant provides an opportunity to implement the MLPA (as part of a newly designed, public-private partnership) and safeguard key hotspots off the California coast. Outcomes for this grant include creation and implementation of a master plan for Marine Protected Areas in California.
Moore 2008 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $7,066,142 Supports the continued implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) in the North-Central, South, and North Coast regions of California. The grant also supports the work of non-governmental organizations, including the MPA Monitoring Enterprise, to strengthen the management, design and implementation of the emerging network of marine protected areas.
Moore 2007 Resources Legacy Fund Foundation  $2,800,000 Support the continuation of a successful public-private partnership with the State of California to implement the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) in the North-Central Coast region of the state. The grant also supports the work of non-governmental organizations in three regions along California’s coast in order to strengthen the design, management, and implementation of this emerging network of marine protected areas.
Moore 2007 Sage Center $889,946 Manage and administer the British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) to synthesize available ecological, biological, oceanographic, and human use spatial data in British Columbia. The BCMCA will engage multi-sector experts to collect the data and ensure an iterative Marxan spatial analysis, biophysical and human use digital atlas, and associated data repository is available to support Area-Based Management (ABM) in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) and other resource management processes.
Moore 2005 Scripps Institution of Oceanography $1,408,850 The purchase of instruments and equipment for research and monitoring of the U.S. West Coast ecosystem off Southern California. The research conducted by Scripps will lead to a better understanding of the hydrographic structure and variability of the system and the dynamics of plankton communities there. Outcomes for this grant include deployment of four Spray gliders, Moving Vessel Profiler, and SeaSoar (autonomous devices for measuring and recording oceanographic data) in California waters.
Moore 2005 Seaweb $350,022 To catalyze and advance marine reserve science and Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) in New England while addressing societal and policy-maker needs. The grant also ensures scientific findings are accessible, relevant, and communication-ready. Outcomes for this grant include the connection of EBM science to New England stakeholders, media, and policymakers.
Moore 2008 Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment $1,967,175 Support the development and application of a suite of ecosystem service models, using the InVest modeling framework being developed as part of the Natural Capital project, to inform Area-Based Management (ABM) decision-making in temperate marine ecosystems. The models will be developed and tested in one of the Marine Conservation Initiative's focal geographies.
Moore 2008 T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation $292,193 Supports the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation to engage commercial fishing organizations, other commercial boat operators, and individual commercial fishing industry workers to develop a unified vision in support of the conservation goals of the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, a means to ensure resilient and productive marine ecosystems with sustainable fisheries and healthy coastal communities.
Moore 2009 The Nature Conservancy $249,705 Support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability.
Moore 2010 The Nature Conservancy $500,000 Support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, including collective fishing arrangements and electronic monitoring, to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to enact necessary policies and advance practical, on-the-water demonstrations that align community objectives with conservation goals within the Pacific groundfish fishery.
Moore 2010 The Nature Conservancy $698,996 Help position the region as a federal Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) pilot, and to support the development of a "good" MSP framework and process for New England by directly supporting the regional planning body and process, bringing a range of tools and data to managers and planners, and connecting state MSP processes to the regional scale to ensure compatibility and learning.
Moore The Nature Conservancy $249,705 This grant to The Nature Conservancy will support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability.
Moore The Nature Conservancy $1,025,035 This grant supports The Nature Conservancy's partnership with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. The two organizations are sharing resources to expand and enhance Alaska's framework for salmon conservation. Outcomes for this grant include completion of the Nushagak Watershed conservation strategy, expansion of Alaska's Anadromous Waters Catalog to include endangered watersheds, integration of ecosystem role of salmon into salmon management, and establishment of state policy for natural-flow regimes for anadromous fish bearing waters.
Moore 2008 Tides Canada Foundation $1,241,635 Elevate and secure the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management process. Tides Canada will also facilitate marine conservation Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) coordination by partnering with the BC Marine Planning Network, a consortium of five ENGOs, to implement their joint strategic plan.
Moore 2009 Tides Canada Foundation $726,757 Supports development of a multi-sector Innovative Oceans Partnership in support of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area.
Moore 2010 Tides Canada Foundation $8,281,994 Support the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative to produce an Integrated Marine Management Plan.
Moore 2010 Tides Canada Foundation $880,933 Supports an agile mechanism for timely, small-scale investments in grassroots activities aimed at securing resilient and productive marine ecosystems in British Columbia. The intention is to capitalize on time-limited opportunities to advance identified strategic outcomes of the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Moore 2009 Turning Point Initiative  $247,727 Enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan.
Moore 2007 Turning Point Initiative Society $3,562,658 Enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA.
Moore 2004 Duke University - Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions $3,066,000 Duke University is using this grant to develop a global perspective on the incidental catch of seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals. In collaboration with in-country scientists, national fisheries management authorities, and regional fisheries management organizations, Duke researchers will synthesize and analyze bycatch data for US and international fisheries. Outcomes for this grant include improvement of fishing and bycatch databases and analysis of world bycatch rates.
458 Moore 2010 U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict $1,204,910 Support the design and potential pilot implementation of a bi-partisan, inclusive public engagement process by the National Ocean Council in furtherance of the United States National Ocean Policy. Funding will be used to produce best practice recommendations for eliciting and incorporating input from the general public and a broad spectrum of ocean users, including tribes.
Moore 2007 UNESCO $295,022 To develop an operational manual of principles and guidelines outlining the steps to implement marine spatial management.
Moore 2009 UNESCO $111,620 UNESCO’s Marine Spatial Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach manual arrives at a time when Area-Based Management efforts in British Columbia and Massachusetts have begun to bear fruit. This grant allows the authors to work directly with practitioners in those regions to apply best practices in designing and implementing Area-Based Management.
Moore 2005 University of California - San Diego $1,762,420 Development of a next-generation Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) designed to improve our understanding of the distribution patterns of marine organisms. The system allows researchers to integrate and manage oceanographic and biological data from various sources and spanning multiple marine habitats. To ensure the widespread adoption and use of the system, the project results will be shared through journals, publications, and international forums. Outcomes for this grant include test of the biogeographic databases federation and remote sensing of metabolism in lakes worldwide. 
Moore 2005 University of California, Santa Barbara $1,391,737 Purchase of instruments and equipment for coral reef research and monitoring in Moorea (French Polynesia). The National Science Foundation recently designated Moorea as a Long-Term Ecological Research site. Outcomes for this grant include deployment of ecological research instrumentation on Moorea. 
Moore 2006 University of California, Santa Barbara $190,616 Produce a high resolution, interactive map of human impacts on marine ecosystems in the U.S. West Coast. The key output is a spatially-explicit human threat analysis within the U.S. West Coast.
Moore 2008 University of California, Santa Barbara  $96,953 Support to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara to train a cohort of graduate students to evaluate the current status and trends of marine fisheries and ecosystems in an effort to bridge a growing intellectual divide among marine ecologists and fisheries biologists.
Moore 2006 University of California, Santa Cruz $195,019 A conference to synthesize existing interdisciplinary scientific knowledge and catalyze the development of scientific initiatives needed to advance ecosystem-based policy and management in the U.S. West Coast. A key result of this conference will be increased communication and collaboration among scientists working on the application of ecosystem-based management along the West Coast of the United States.
Moore 2007 University of Massachusetts Boston $8,181,785 Support the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership, a broad-based coalition of stakeholders that is working to ensure the creation of a sound Area-Based Management plan for Massachusetts state waters.
Moore 2007 University of New Hampshire $221,318 Analyze historical baselines of productivity and distribution of key fish species and of fisheries effort in the Gulf of Maine from the 1800s to the present, and to use this information to impact targets for current fisheries rebuilding efforts.
Moore 2006 University System of Maryland $618,013 Analyze recreational fishing mortality and assess alternative management approaches; demonstrate a collaborative science-based approach to managing marine recreational fisheries; and develop trust and a renewed positive working relationship among recreational fishers and environmentalists. A key outcome of the grant is the development and implementation of an alternative harvesting policy for a sustainable recreational fishery.
Moore 2008 West Coast Vancouver Island Aquatic Management Board  $775,624 Supports the West Coast Vancouver Island Aquatic Management Board to develop a regional Area-Based Management (ABM) framework and to complete a pilot ABM plan in Clayoquot Sound. By utilizing the Board’s diverse public and private representatives, this grant will also facilitate communications mechanisms, technical tools, and governance to engage key constituencies and serve as an ABM model for British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA).
Moore 2007 Wildlife Conservation Society $750,000 To protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the creation of scientifically-based marine managed area networks in Kubulau and Macuata serving as models for ecosystem-based management in Fiji and the Western Pacific.
Moore 2005 World Wildlife Fund $400,000 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies.
Moore 2007 World Wildlife Fund Canada $2,105,625 Enhances the effectiveness of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations, industry representatives, and other influential Canadians to promote Area-Based Management (ABM) in areas like British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. Through direct engagement, the grant also facilitates government commitment to policy, approaches (including ABM), and platforms that secure resilient and productive marine ecosystems.
Moore 2010 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $275,000 This grant to the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition supports their integration with the Pew Environment Group. Funding will be used to support staff participation in the integration efforts, and to sustain communications/outreach during the transition period.
Moore 2004 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $200,000 The Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition is using this grant to  build a strong and diverse coalition of support for salmon conservation by disseminating a compelling vision for a sustainable regional economy, and conducting outreach to regional labor unions, utilities, and inland Pacific Northwest communities.
Moore 2003 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $300,000 The Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition used this grant to support environmental conservation activities in the lower Snake River through its Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign, as an iconic effort to influence lower 48 recovery.
Moore 2010 World Wildlife Fund Canada  $711,279 Supports developing science and management tools and business and economic solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning in support of the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative.
Surdna 2007 Alaska Marine Conservation Council $150,000 For a joint initiative of 3 organizations to: develop business plans for sustainable fisheries trusts in Alaska and Cape Cod; to implement a trust; and to assess the need/opportunity to create a national infrastructure and methodology to implement trusts.
Surdna 2008 Alaska Marine Conservation Council $300,000 Support to continue development of Sustainable Fisheries Trusts that will finance Alaska and Cape Cod community-based fishermen employing conservation practices and whose access to the fisheries is critical to economic and social vitality.
Surdna 2007 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $180,000 To provide general operating support policy reform campaigns for herring and groundfish, and to implement the nation's first Sustainable Fisheries Trust.
Surdna 2010 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $75,000 For the creation of Sustainable Fisheries Trusts in Alaska and Cape Cod that will finance community-based fishermen, employing conservation practices vital to ocean health and whose access to fisheries is critical to local economic and social vitality.
Surdna 2010 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $15,000 For a comprehensive assessment of the organization as it enters its second decade as a professionally staffed nonprofit.
Surdna 2010 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association $150,000 To grow the Cape Cod Fisheries Trust into a nationally significant model for preserving marine ecosystems and ensuring the environmental, economic, and cultural sustainability of the communities on which they depend.
Surdna 2010 Ecotrust $75,000 For the creation of Sustainable Fisheries Trusts in Alaska and Cape Cod that will finance community-based fishermen, employing conservation practices vital to ocean health and whose access to fisheries is critical to local economic and social vitality.
Surdna 2010 Ecotrust $150,000 To establish the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust as a durable model leveraged to catalyze creation of a national network of community based fishing entities working to achieve healthy fisheries and fishing economies.
Surdna 2010 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $450,000 General support to grow and expand the capacity of a leading science and advocacy organization to become a more effective catalyst for change in oceans particularly in domestic fishing issues and place based ecosystem conservation.
Surdna 2010 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $115,000 To fund a scientific thought leader and catalyst to advance innovative policies and management strategies that will protect marine biodiversity and sustain ocean resources.
Surdna 2007 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $450,000 General support to grow and expand the capacity of a leading science and advocacy organization to become a more effective catalyst for change in oceans particularly in domestic fishing issues and place based ecosystem conservation.
Surdna 2007 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $75,000 To defend the conservation provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and promote the recommendations of the Pew Oceans Commission and US Commission on Ocean Policy.
Surdna 2008 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $150,000 To ensure that implementation of the conservation gains made through passage of the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 2007 will strengthen U.S. fisheries management.
Surdna 2010 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $75,000 To press for implementation of the conservation measures in the Magnuson-Stevens Act; advocate for its ecosystem principles; seek more appropriations for fisheries data collection/analysis; and frame the next MSA reauthorization.
Surdna 2007 National Environmental Trust $150,000 For a campaign to defend federal marine conservation policy provisions by generating greater public awareness and involvement in fisheries issues.
Surdna 2009 Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance $15,000 For organizational c apacity building that promotes NAMA's efforts to revitalize poverty-stricken fishing communities.
Surdna 2007 Pew Charitable Trusts $215,000 To facilitate strategic planning and coordination of multiple fishery conservation efforts which employ diverse community-based advocacy and empowerment approaches, and to fund several such efforts.
Surdna 2008 Pew Charitable Trusts $200,000 To facilitate strategic planning and coordination of multiple fishery conservation initiatives that employ diverse community-based advocacy and empowerment approaches, and to provide financial support for selected projects.
Rockefeller Bro. 2007 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $125,000 Protecting Ecosystems and Biodiversity (ended 2010)
Rockefeller Bro. 2006 American Littoral Society $470,000 For the marine conservation work of its projects: the Regional Marine Conservation Project and the Marine Fish Conservation Network.
Rockefeller Bro. 2004 American Littoral Society $225,000 For two projects related to fishery management reform: the Marine Fish Conservation Network, and the Regional Marine Conservation Project.
Rockefeller Bro. 2004 David Suzuki Foundation $20,000 For two projects: 1) a campaign to support a continuing moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration, and 2) the use of advanced modeling techniques to predict the impact of global warming on global fish stocks around North America.
No. 552 Amount: $561,907,154