NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):

Keystone Initiative - Marine & Coastal

Project Title: Increasing River Herring Monitoring and Restoration in Eastern Maine

Organization:

Downeast Salmon Federation

Project ID:

0104.15.049873

Award Amount:

$147830.00

Location:

The project area is the entire Maine coast, originally this project only included east of the Penobscot. Eastern Maine is the most fisheries-dependent economic development region in the eastern U.S. The area has more commercial fishing licenses per capita than anywhere else in the region.