Assessing Annual Gulf Sturgeon Recruitment & Overwinter Survival in the Apalachicola River | F16AS00352

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The opportunity titled "Assessing Annual Gulf Sturgeon Recruitment & Overwinter Survival in the Apalachicola River" is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funding action intended to support targeted research on the threatened Gulf sturgeon, with a particular focus on juveniles. The core purpose is to strengthen ongoing collaboration and produce better scientific information about population abundance, annual recruitment (how many young fish successfully enter the population each year), and overwinter survival and movement patterns, especially as juvenile sturgeon leave the river system and use marine foraging areas during part of their life cycle. The work is framed around priorities identified under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, meaning the study is meant to directly support conservation and recovery needs for a federally protected species.

This notice is explicitly a single source award, meaning the agency plans to fund one named recipient rather than open the effort up to competition. The intended recipient is the University of Georgia Research Foundation, which would carry out the project under a cooperative agreement. A cooperative agreement generally indicates that the federal agency expects to be substantially involved in the project beyond simply providing funds, such as coordinating on study design, data needs, field priorities, or how results are applied to management decisions. Importantly, the notice is not a request for applications, so other organizations are not being solicited to apply and there is no competitive application process tied to this announcement.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number F16AS00352. It falls under the "Other" opportunity category and uses the cooperative agreement instrument type. The assistance listing references CFDA number 15.615, and the agency is the Fish and Wildlife Service. The expected award amount is capped at an award ceiling of $54,891, and the notice indicates an anticipated single award (the "ExpectedAwards" field is present but effectively corresponds to this one planned recipient). Key dates in the posting show a creation date of 2016-07-18 and an original closing date of 2016-07-22, which in this context functions more as a public notice timeline rather than a deadline for applicants, since applications are not being requested.

Overall, the announcement is best understood as a formal public notice that the Fish and Wildlife Service intends to directly fund the University of Georgia Research Foundation to conduct a specific Gulf sturgeon research effort in the Apalachicola River system and associated marine foraging areas. The expected outcome is improved understanding of juvenile sturgeon recruitment and overwinter survival, along with better information on seasonal movements, all of which can feed into endangered species conservation planning and management actions.

• The Fish and Wildlife Service in the consumer protection sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Assessing Annual Gulf Sturgeon Recruitment & Overwinter Survival in the Apalachicola River" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.615.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2016-07-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-07-22. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $54,891.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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