Fishing and related Grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts
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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.
2006 Alaska Marine Conservation Council $100,000 To support the activities of Dorothy Childers as set forth in the grantees proposal.
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.
1998 American Fisheries Society $75,000 To identify North American stocks of marine fish at risk.
1998 American Littoral Society $50,000 For a campaign to promote sustainable fisheries management policies for U.S. Caribbean marine fisheries.
1998 American Littoral Society $187,000 In continued support for design and implementation of strategic initiatives in marine fisheries conservation.
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.
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.
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.
2004 American Littoral Society $700,000 To enhance regional-level advocacy with fisheries management councils, consistent with the Pew Oceans Commissions recommendations.
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.
2005 American Littoral Society $500,000 To strengthen environmental protections for the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine Sanctuary.
2005 American Littoral Society $500,000 To strengthen environmental protections for the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine Sanctuary.
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.
2006 American Littoral Society $250,000 To ensure a conservation-oriented implementation of the new Northwest Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.
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.
2008 Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition $300,500 To help manage organizers for the Trusts Antarctic Krill Conservation Project in key countries.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
2008 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University $150,000 To support the activities of Fiorenza Micheli
1999 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermens Association $100,000 For support of the Fisheries Reform Campaign: Fishermen Paving the Road to Ecosystem Management.
2001 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermens Association $150,000 To promote sustainable management of marine fish populations in New England through public education and administrative advocacy.
2007 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermens 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
2008 Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermens 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.
1998 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for South Atlantic marine fisheries.
1998 Center for Marine Conservation $90,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Pacific marine fisheries.
1998 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Gulf of Mexico marine fisheries.
1998 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Mid-Atlantic marine fisheries.
1999 Center for Marine Conservation $67,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Mid-Atlantic marine fisheries.
1999 Center for Marine Conservation $80,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Gulf of Mexico marine fisheries.
1999 Center for Marine Conservation $80,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Pacific marine fisheries.
1999 Center for Marine Conservation $70,000 To promote sustainable management policies for South Atlantic marine fisheries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2007 Chesapeake Bay Foundation $250,000 To support ecosystem-based fisheries management policy reforms in Chesapeake Bay.
2008 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization $150,000 To support the activities of Beth Fulton
1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $125,000 To promote sustainable management policies
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.
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.
2000 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $200,000 To promote sustainable management policies for New England marine fisheries
2002 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. $100,000 To build public support for the designation of marine protected areas in the Gulf of Maine.
1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $125,000 To promote sustainable management policies.
1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $30,000 To promote responsible herring management.
1998 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $200,000 To restore habitat in the Gulf of Maine.
2002 Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.  $200,000 To improve fish stock and protect the habitat areas essential to fish development in New England.
2006 Conservation Science Institute $50,000 To support the activities of Thomas Okey as set forth in the grantees proposal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2006 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To provide general operating support.
2008 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To provide general operating support.
2010 Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $70,000 To provide general operating support.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
2004 Dalhousie University Foundation, Inc. $160,000 To examine the global implications on marine ecosystems of the loss of top predators due to overfishing.
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.
2000 Duke University $1,215,000 To conduct a comprehensive study of the ecological impacts of the worldwide pelagic longline industry.
2006 Duke University $50,000 To support the activities of K. David Hyrenbach as set forth in the grantees proposal.
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.
2008 Duke University $50,000 To support the activities of K. David Hyrenbach as set forth in the grantees proposal.
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.
1998 Earthjustice $1,475,000 To launch the Ocean Law Project, a coordinated legal effort to restore marine ecosystems and fisheries.
1998 Earthjustice  $269,000 To implement the Ocean Law Project in the Mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific and Western Pacific regions.
1998 Earthjustice  $800,000 For public education on national forest protection issues.
2000 Earthjustice  $1,233,000 For continued support of the Ocean Law Project, a coordinated effort to restore marine ecosystems and fisheries.
2000 Earthjustice  $300,000 A final grant to support the Forest Service Timber Budget Reform Campaign.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1999 Environmental Defense, Inc. $2,100,000 For continuation of the Alliance for Environmental Innovation.
2003 Environmental Defense, Inc. $300,000 For general operating support
2004 Environmental Defense, Inc. $250,000 For general operating support.
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.
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.
2008 Florida State University Research Foundation $150,000 To support the activities of Daniel Conley
2002 Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc., The $240,000 To assess the impact of recreational fishing on marine stocks of economic importance in the United States.
2001 Friends of the Earth $300,000 In support of Fish for the Future, a public education campaign on Individual Fishing Quotas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1998 Hawaii Audubon Society  $50,000 For support of Hawaii Audubon Societys Western Pacific Fisheries Coalition, designed to address fisheries conservation reform in Hawaii.
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.
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.
2000 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $110,000 For support of the Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology.
2000 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $110,000 For support of the Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology.
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.
2006 Marine Conservation Biology Institute $50,000 To support the activities of Hiroyuki Matsuda.
2000 Marine Fish Conservation Network $150,000 For support of a public education effort to reform the nations fishery management system.
2006 Marine Fish Conservation Network $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.
2006 Marine Fish Conservation Network $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.
2006 Marine Fish Conservation Network $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.
2007 Marine Fish Conservation Network $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.
2008 Marine Fish Conservation Network $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.
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.
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.
2005 Marine Fish Conservation Network - American Littoral Society $305,000 To prevent the erosion of existing fisheries conservation policies.
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.
2004 Maryland, University of  $360,000 To evaluate the effectiveness of fisheries enforcement in the United States and identify options for improving the system.
2002 Miami, University of $795,194 To continue support for the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation.
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.
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.
2004 Miami, University of $3,000,000 To support the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
2005 Miami, University of $3,240,000 To support the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
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.
2007 Miami, University of $3,000,000 To support the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
2008 Miami, University of $150,000 To support the activities of Andrew Baker.
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
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.
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.
1998 National Audubon Society  $250,000 For conservation and recovery of Atlantic swordfish and sharks.
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.
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.
1999 National Audubon Society  $300,000 To protect old-growth forest and wilderness in the Southwest.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
1998 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For core support.
1999 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support
2000 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support (Dec 14, 2000).
2000 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support (Mar 16).
2001 National Environmental Trust  $2,500,000 For general operating support.
2002 National Environmental Trust  $3,000,000 For general operating support.
2003 National Environmental Trust  $5,000,000 To provide general operating support.
2003 National Environmental Trust  $4,000,000 To provide general operating support.
2004 National Environmental Trust  $100,000 In support of the Clear the Air Campaign
2004 National Environmental Trust  $100,000 In support of the Clean the Air Campaign.
2005 National Environmental Trust  $4,500,000 To provide general operating support.
2006 National Environmental Trust  $6,000,000 To provide general operating support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2002 Natural Resources Council of Maine $450,000 To restore the Penobscot River system to Atlantic salmon, American shad and other anadromous fish species.
2003 Natural Resources Council of Maine $200,000 To restore the Penobscot River system to Atlantic salmon, American shad and other anadromous fish species.
1998 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. $1,453,000 To provide continued support for SeaWeb, a public education initiative on ocean issues.
2008 Nature Conservancy $150,000 To support the activities of Omar Defeo
1996 New England Aquarium Corporation $3,000,000 For the 1997 and 1998 Pew Fellow classes.
1998 New England Aquarium Corporation $769,000 To cover administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for the 1999 and 2000 fiscal years.
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.
1998 New England Aquarium Corporation $2,631,000 For the 1999 and 2000 Pew Fellows classes.
2000 New England Aquarium Corporation $1,568,000 For administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for fiscal years 2000 through 2003.
2001 New England Aquarium Corporation $1,500,000 For the 2001 Pew Fellows class.
2002 New England Aquarium Corporation $230,000 For administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for July 2002 through December 2003.
2002 New England Aquarium Corporation $230,000 For administrative expenses to operate the Pew Fellows Program for July 2002 through December 2003.
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.
2002 New England Aquarium Corporation  $1,000,000 To continue support for the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation.
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.
1998 Ocean Conservancy $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for Mid-Atlantic marine fisheries.
1998 Ocean Conservancy $70,000 To renew efforts promoting sustainable fishery management policies for South Atlantic marine fisheries.
1999 Ocean Conservancy $80,000 To promote sustainable management policies for Gulf of Mexico marine fisheries.
2006 Ocean Conservancy  $180,000 To support a campaign to strengthen existing shark finning regulations of the European Union.
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.
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.
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.
2005 Oceana $4,500,000 General operating support for an international marine advocacy organization.
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.
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.
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.
2003 Oceana  $5,625,000 To provide general operating support.
2005 Oceana  $4,500,000 General operating support for an international marine advocacy organization.
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.
2006 Oceana  $4,500,000 General operating support for an international marine advocacy organization.
2006 Oceana  $465,000 To support a campaign to strengthen existing shark finning regulations of the European Union.
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.
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.
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.
2000 Oceana - Poseidon $4,032,000 For support of a new global marine organization.
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.
2007 Pacific Environment and Resource Center $100,000 To support the activities of Fan Meng as set forth in the grantees proposal.
2008 Pacific Environment and Resource Center $150,000 To support the activities of Wen Bo
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.
2001 Pacific Marine Conservation Council $130,000 For a public education campaign to promote stronger fisheries management of bycatch, overfishing and habitat destruction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2002 Research Foundation of State University of New York $140,000 To develop a plan for communicating the findings of a pending scientific study
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.
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.
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.
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.
2007 Rhode Island Foundation, University of $100,000 To support the activities of Marie Joelle Rochet as set forth in the grantees proposal.
2008 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds $150,000 To support the activities of Ben Sullivan
2009 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $800,000 For general operating support.
2006 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $2,250,000 For general operating support.
2005 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,000,000 To provide general operating support
2004 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,000,000 To restore salmon populations in the Columbia and Snake Rivers
2003 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,250,000 To restore salmon populations in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
2002 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition $1,000,000 To restore salmon populations in the Snake/Columbia Rivers through partial removal of four dams.
2000 SeaWeb  $1,200,000 For core programs.
2008 SeaWeb  $150,000 To support the activities of John Bernhardt Weller
1999 Seaweb - Public Education Initiative $1,600,000 For a public education initiative on ocean issues.
1999 Strategies for the Global Environment $3,500,000 For establishment of a national oceans commission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2002 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - Trout Unlimited $1,250,000 In support of a national alliance of hunters and fishermen working to protect fish and wildlife populations on federal public lands.
2007 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership - Trout Unlimited $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.
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.
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.
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 
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.
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.
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2007 University of British Columbia, The $100,000 To support the activities of Rashid Sumaila as set forth in the grantees proposal.
2008 University of British Columbia, The $1,172,000 To continue assessing and documenting the impact of fisheries on the worlds oceans.
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.
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.
2008 University of Queensland $150,000 To support the activities of Peter Mumby
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.
2006 Washington, University of $50,000 To support the activities of Patrick Christie as set forth in the grantees proposal.
2008 Washington, University of $150,000 To support the activities of Pablo Garcia Borboroglu
2001 Wilderness Society, The $245,400 To conduct nonpartisan study, analysis and research on the need for a federal marine wilderness policy.
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.
2008 Wildlife Conservation Society $150,000 To support the activities of Matthieu Le Corre
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.
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.
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.
Total Pew Grants $270,437,737