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California Sea Grant Releases 2024-2027 Strategic Plan
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California Sea Grant Releases 2024-2027 Strategic Plan

California Sea Grant, administered through the University of California San Diego, has released its 2024-2027 strategic plan, with a goal of better preparing the state’s coastal communities for extreme weather and coastal hazards, economic disruptions and other threats to communities’ well-being. The report notes the intimate connection between all California residents and the state’s coastal and marine resources, which are located along the 3,425 miles of coastline, meandering along the rugged open coast, around bays and in the ocean. The first healthy coastal ecosystem goal centers on a better understanding of natural and anthropogenic influences on these ecosystems in a changing environment and collaborators that reflect the diversity of those with interest in these ecosystems to id...
Fishing Coalition Hails Funding for Young Fishermen’s Development Act
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Fishing Coalition Hails Funding for Young Fishermen’s Development Act

A national coalition of community-based, small-boat commercial fishermen is hailing a congressional decision to include $1 million to fund the Young Fishermen’s Development Act (YFDA) in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package for fiscal year 2023. Members of the Fishing Communities Coalition (FCC) worked with members of Congress for more than seven years to develop the YFDA, which is modeled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program. The YFDA is itself a workforce development program administered by NOAA’s Sea Grant program. The funds are expected to help fishermen of the future tackle increasing challenges facing commercial fishermen in the United States. With the nation’s commercial fisheries generating more than $200 billion in sales and su...