§1143 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

Makes competitive grants to fund local and regional training, education, outreach, and technical help for young fishermen. Programs can teach things like seamanship and safety; boat and engine care; conservation-minded gear and sustainable fishing; business skills, marketing, and supply chains; money and risk management (including training about buying vessels, permits, or quotas); rules and reporting for State and Federal fisheries; fisheries policy and management; and mentoring, apprenticeships, or internships. Grants go to collaborative State, Tribal, local, or regional partnerships of public or private groups (for example, Sea Grant programs, government or Tribal agencies, community fishing groups, fishermen’s cooperatives, colleges including those with associate degrees, or similar organizations). Any young person who wants to join U.S. or Great Lakes commercial fishing can take part in funded activities, but each grant group picks its participants. Each grant can last up to 3 fiscal years and pay up to $200,000 per year. Recipients may get consecutive grants. Recipients must match at least 25% of the grant with cash or in-kind help. The Secretary must try to fund projects across different regions and must consult Sea Grant, community fishing groups, federal and state agencies (including regional fishery councils), colleges with fisheries programs, and other partners when setting rules. Grants may not be used to buy fishing licenses, permits, quotas, or other harvesting rights.

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(a)In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall make competitive grants to support new and established local and regional training, education, outreach, and technical assistance initiatives for young fishermen, including programs, workshops, and services relating to—

(1)seamanship, navigation, electronics, and safety;

(2)vessel and engine care, maintenance, and repair;

(3)innovative conservation fishing gear engineering and technology;

(4)sustainable fishing practices;

(5)entrepreneurship and good business practices;

(6)direct marketing, supply chain, and traceability;

(7)financial and risk management, including vessel, permit, and quota purchasing;

(8)State and Federal legal requirements for specific fisheries, including reporting, monitoring, licenses, and regulations;

(9)State and Federal fisheries policy and management;

(10)mentoring, apprenticeships, or internships; and

(11)any other activities, opportunities, or programs, as the Secretary determines appropriate.

(b)(1)To be eligible to receive a grant under the Program, a recipient shall be a collaborative State, Tribal, local, or regionally based network or partnership of public or private entities, which may include—

(A)a Sea Grant Institution;

(B)a Federal or State agency or a Tribal organization;

(C)a community-based nongovernmental organization;

(D)fishermen’s cooperatives or associations;

(E)an institution of higher education (including an institution awarding an associate’s degree), or a foundation maintained by an institution of higher education; or

(F)any other appropriate entity, as the Secretary determines appropriate.

(2)All young fishermen seeking to participate in the commercial fisheries of the United States and the Great Lakes are eligible to participate in the activities funded through grants provided for in this section, except that participants in such activities shall be selected by each grant recipient.

(c)(1)A grant under this section shall—

(A)have a term of no more than 3 fiscal years; and

(B)be in an amount that is not more than $200,000 for each fiscal year.

(2)An eligible recipient may receive consecutive grants under this section.

(d)To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a recipient shall provide a match in the form of cash or in-kind contributions from the recipient in the amount equal to or greater than 25 percent of the funds provided by the grant.

(e)In making grants under this section, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, ensure geographic diversity.

(f)In carrying out this section and in developing criteria for evaluating grant applications, the Secretary shall consult, to the maximum extent practicable, with—

(1)Sea Grant Institutions and extension agents of such institutions;

(2)community-based nongovernmental fishing organizations;

(3)Federal and State agencies, including Regional Fishery Management Councils established under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1851 et seq.); 11 See References in Text note below.

(4)institutions of higher education with fisheries expertise and programs; and

(5)partners, as the Secretary determines.

(g)A grant under this section may not be used to purchase any fishing license, permit, quota, or other harvesting right.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, referred to in subsec. (f)(3), is Pub. L. 94–265, Apr. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 331, which is classified principally to chapter 38 (§ 1801 et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. Title III of the Act is classified generally to subchapter IV (§ 1851 et seq.) of chapter 38 of Title 16. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1801 of Title 16 and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Young Fishermen’s Development Act, and not as part of titles I and II of Pub. L. 89–454 which comprise this chapter.

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