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Academia to Government

Sea Grant Announces the 2024 Class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. The 85 early-career professionals selected will be placed in federal government offices throughout Washington, D.C., and join the over 1,600 individuals who have participated in the program since its inception in 1979.

September 15, 2023

Louisiana

Louisiana Sea Grant Co-hosts Turtle Excluder Devices Compliance Workshops, Saved Commercial Fishermen $120,000 in Potential Fines

Gary Graham shows shrimp fisherman how to inspect the TED on his trawl net. Photo credit: Texas Sea Grant Turtle excluder devices (TEDs) are required

May 24, 2022

Louisiana

LSU Research Team Examines Blue Carbon Capacity of Louisiana Marshes with Implications for Restoration

Some 40 percent of the nation’s coastal marshes reside in Louisiana. These wetland habitats are vital to the state’s economy, ecology and resilience. Their importance

April 27, 2022

Louisiana

Louisiana Sea Grant identifies legal and economic options for mitigating coastal access conflicts

The Louisiana Legislature directed Louisiana Sea Grant to study and make recommendations for the creation of a voluntary public recreation servitude of use of coastal

April 14, 2022

Extension

Worms on Oysters Harvested from Reefs are a Natural Occurrence

“There’s a worm on my oyster!” Louisiana Sea Grant explains why this happens and why it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

December 14, 2017

Thu Bui

Extension

Why Sea Grant Matters to Louisiana Fishermen

Louisiana Sea Grant extension agent Thu Bui translates Sea Grant resources for Vietnamese fishermen in Louisiana.

October 6, 2017

Aquaculture

National Seafood Month: Grand Isle Oyster Hatchery to Produce Year-Round

On average, 400 million oyster larvae were produced at the Grand Isle Oyster Hatchery annually. With the recent grand opening of the new hatchery facility, 1 billion Crassostrea virginica oyster larvae can be produced annually.

September 25, 2015

Education

Hurricane Preparedness Week: Making Yourself Hurricane-Proof 10 Years after Katrina and Rita

Making yourself hurricane-proof is a deliberate act. Residents of storm-prone areas need a plan and to be able to execute it. The Homeowners Handbook helps individuals make their families and homes more resilient.

May 18, 2015

Upgrading water control for Bayou St. John

Gulf of Mexico

Historic New Orleans Bayou St. John: A NOAA Hydraulic Restoration Poster Child

Once an important waterway to reach the French Quarter, then forgotten, Bayou St. John has been restored and become a destination for many New Orleanians.

April 16, 2015

Alabama

Coastal Community Resilience Indexâ€™s success inspires development of additional tools

Due to the incredible sucess of the Coastal Resilience Index, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant is working with several partners to pilot test the Fisheries Resilience Index and the Tourism Resilience Index. The Fisheries Index focuses on indicators important to commercial and recreational fishermen, seafood processors and marina owners. The Tourism Index addresses 10 categories, including communications, marketing, disaster operations and workforce issues.

October 6, 2014

Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Safe Boating Week: Spotlight on Extension Agent Lauren Land

Lauren is an Extension Agent at Louisiana Sea Grant. She was a recipient of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship in 2011 where she worked at the National Sea Grant Office. She has a masters in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences with a Minor in Applied Statistics from Louisiana State University.

May 20, 2014

Gulf of Mexico

Big Challenges, Joint Solutions: Building Capacity for Collaborative Fisheries Research

Virginia Sea Grant and partners organized a day long workshop bringing together fisherman and scientists to discuss collaborative fisheries research to improve gear and fishing methods. The 2014 workshop focused on shrimp fisheries and turtle bycatch.

May 12, 2014

Extension

Stepping up collaborative efforts with a Sea Grant “exchange program”

Sea Grant extension staff are tapping into a valuable resource — their out-of-state colleagues — to help generate new ideas for their own program’s efforts and improve collaboration within the nationwide Sea Grant network.

April 5, 2014

Extension

Sea Grant Helps Louisiana Shrimpers Compete in Global Markets

With the assistance of Louisiana Sea Grant, shrimpers from the state received more than $18 million in direct financial assistance over the past three years through the federal Trade Assistance Adjustment program.

November 18, 2013

Shrimp

Extension

Fresh, Local and Good for the Community

If you go to the grocery store to buy seafood, chances are that what you end up buying is imported – an 80 percent chance that it is imported, according to NOAA Fisheries Service. See what Sea Grant is doing to help communities invest in their local fishermen with high-quality, regionally harvest seafood as their return.

January 17, 2013