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Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details View Earmarks by Bill Subsection: NOAA; NMFS

Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No. Total Amount
Earmarks No. 49 Total Amount $53,473,750
Earmark Details Year Description Amount

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Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Massachusetts Groundfish Disaster, to provide relief due to economic losses due to new fishing limitations on fishermen, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Amount $13,395,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
Locations Suffolk, Massachusetts Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Fishery Disaster Amount $6,697,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Dan Inouye (D-HI) Locations Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Harbor seal and stellar sea lion protection program, for management measures to protect harbor seals and steller sea lions and multi-year interdisciplinary research in partnership with NMFS, Alaska Sea Life Center Amount $3,478,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Locations Seward, Alaska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description New England Multi-Species Survey, for multi-species groundfish surveys, School of Marine Science and Technology Amount $2,679,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
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Locations Bristol, Massachusetts Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Center for Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management, operations to conduct fisheries based research in the Northern Gulf of Mexico from in-shore shallow waters out across the continental shelf Amount $2,632,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama Recipients Dauphin Island (Ala.) Sea Lab
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration, funding for on the water/in the field oyster restoration efforts, Oyster Recovery Partnership Amount $1,786,000 Sponsors Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Former Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Locations Annapolis, Maryland Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Scallop Fishery Assessment (MFI), to determine conservation and sustainability measures to ensure a strong future for the New England Scallop fishery, Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute Amount $1,786,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Former Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
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Locations Bristol, Massachusetts Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Migratory Shark Research at Mote Marine Laboratory Amount $1,504,000 Sponsors Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Former Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA)
Former Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
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Locations Sarasota, Florida Recipients Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Southern New England Cooperative Research Initiative, cooperative research and monitoring projects in southern New England, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation Amount $1,339,500 Sponsors Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) Locations Narragansett, Rhode Island Recipients Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Monkfish and Migratory Trawl Surveys, collection of data to accurately and efficiently manage fish resources, Garden State Seafood Assoc Amount $1,339,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
Locations Cape May, New Jersey Recipients Garden State Seafood Association

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