Science and Research Fund

Science and Research Fund is sponsored by Marine Stewardship Council. The Science and Research Fund provides grants to support projects that help MSC certified fisheries maintain best practice in sustainability. Since 2020, over £1.

8 million in funding has been awarded via the Ocean Stewardship Fund to support research projects.

Science and Research Fund | Marine Stewardship Council Science and Research Fund The Science and Research Fund provides grants of up to £50,000 to support projects that help MSC certified fisheries maintain best practice in sustainability. Since 2020, we have awarded 41 grants and over £1. 8 million in funding via the Ocean Stewardship Fund to support research projects.

Accelerating At Sea Monitoring Ocean Outcomes: Advancing Best Practices for At-Sea Monitoring in East Asian Tuna Longline Fisheries Australian Fisheries Management Authority and partner TBD: Building a National Approach to Independent Monitoring: Using Western Australia as a Case Study Birdlife South Africa: Regional Workshops on Advancing At-Sea Electronic Monitoring for South African and Namibian fisheries.

Sinerxia: Accelerating At-Sea Monitoring across the Iberian Atlantic arc International Seafood Sustainability Foundation: Advancing At-Sea Monitoring Solutions for Tuna Fisheries Developing Harvest Strategies and Control Rules Hawaii Longline Association: Establishing the Scientific Framework for a North Pacific Swordfish Harvest Strategy Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in collaboration with the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPFC): Development of a Southwest Pacific Swordfish Harvest Strategy Zhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute: Optimization of Dynamic Fishing Strategies and Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Mechanisms for Putian Manila Clam Parent Fishery Asosiasi Perikanan Pole & Line dan Handline Indonesia (AP2HI): Improving the Reliability of Operational Catch and Effort Data to Support Harvest Strategy of Skipjack tuna in Indonesia Archipelagic Waters University of Alaska Fairbanks: Develop Harvest Control Rules for the NSEI (Chatham Strait) Sablefish Fishery A research grant to the University of Queensland builds on significant reductions in the catch of vulnerable shark species in a tuna fishery in Papua New Guinea.

Using a five‑year dataset with 100% observer coverage, the project will combine quantitative analysis with fleet operator engagement to identify which interventions drove these improvements, which changes were incidental, and which practices could be applied more widely to other fisheries.

South African hake trawl: Trialling innovative technologies South Atlantic albacore tuna: Stock-wide harvest strategy California market squid: Understanding populations Tropical tuna purse seine: Improving shark bycatch assessment Namibia hake: Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology WCPO Tuna: Shark handling and release techniques Chilean demersal crustacean fisheries: Harvest control rules Explore the Project Library '{{item. Image.

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