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Aquatic Invasive Species Rapid Response Fund

Deadline for written questions: 04.18.2025
Deadline for submission of proposals: 05.2.2025

The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC), in cooperation with and funding from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, will be issuing approximately $510,000 in grants to fund efforts to plan a rapid response or deploy rapid response measures to a new detection of a potentially invasive species. Response efforts must target an aquatic invasive species, defined as non-native plants or animals that reside in fresh, wetland, estuarine, or marine waters.

Issue date: 04.04.2025

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Apr. 15, 2025 alt text Vessel Needed for Codend Study in Groundfish Bottom Trawl Fishery

Deadline for written questions: 04.18.2025
Deadline for submission of proposals: 05.2.2025

The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) intends to charter one groundfish bottom trawl vessel for 12 sample days to test an experimental codend (termed FloMo) designed to reduce bycatch of juvenile sablefish and smaller-sized shortspine thornyhead (SSTH), Dover sole, and petrale sole in the West Coast groundfish bottom trawl fishery. The desired timeline to completed this work is between 01 July and 30 September 2025. PSMFC will be responsible for designing the project and providing all scientific equipment needed for the project. The Contractor agrees to furnish a vessel, crew, main wire, doors, sweeps, bottom trawl, and a 127 mm T90 codend. PSMFC will supply the experimental codend (Fig. 1). The captain and crew must be available during all scientific operations. To ensure full use of each sample day, the captain and crew should make any necessary transit arrangements to begin fishing operations at the start of each sample day. All fishing will occur during daylight hours.

Issue date: 04.04.2025

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Apr. 4, 2025 alt text User Support and application development for the Alaska Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERS)

Deadline for written questions: 03.28.2025
Deadline for submission of proposals: 04.23.2025

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) seeks a contractor to provide customer service user support and application development services for the Alaska Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERS) and integration of data to support catch accounting. The purpose of this project is to support timely and accurate reporting, data retrieval, and information integration to support management of fisheries off Alaska. This project will help build regional and national fishery information management systems with strong data quality and integrity.

Issue date: 03.21.2025

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Mar. 20, 2025 alt text Vessel Needed for Dungeness Crab Longline Gear Configuration Study

Deadline for written questions: 03.10.2025
Deadline for submission of proposals: 03.20.2025

The PSMFC intends to charter 1 to 2 Dungeness crab vessels (depending on charter rate) to test the efficacy of fishing longline-configured crab pots. If the project budget cannot cover the charter costs of 2 vessels, then 1 vessel will be selected.Working directly with fishers, this project expects to identify configurations oflongline gear that can reduce the number of vertical lines in the water, and that can be easily applied to normal fishing operations. This project looks to fish upwards to 200 Dungeness crab pots (longline configured) per fishing trip across 5 fishing trips. However, the number of trips to be made may change depending on the charter ratesreceived. We also look to fish upwards to 200 Dungeness crab pots (single-pot rigged) per fishing trip to conduct a catch comparison analysis between the two gear configurations. If the size and layout of the charter vessel(s) is unable to handle this number of pots, then fewer pots will be fished. The duration of each fishing trip is anticipated to be 2 days. The timeline to complete this work is between 15 April and14 August 2025. Fishing will occur off the Oregon coast in depths upwards to 100 fathoms. The PSMFC has an Oregon Scientific Take Permit that will allow this research to fish longline-configured crab pots and at depths outside of 40 fathoms during the month of May.

Issue date: 02.20.2025

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Feb. 20, 2025 alt text Sturgeon Fishing Guide Tagging Program

Deadline for written questions: 02.28.2025
Deadline for submission of proposals: 03.14.2025

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) is seeking up to eight (8) participating sturgeon fishing charter Captains/Guides (also referred to as “Contractor” or “Offeror”) to collect data on and implant Passive Integrated Transponders (PIT) tags into all White Sturgeon caught and released during regularly scheduled charter operations.

Issue date: 02.14.2025

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