For fiscal year 2019, 43 competitive Prescott Grants were awarded totaling $3,580,526 to recipients from 18 states and one tribe, representing marine mammal stranding network partners from every Fisheries Region.
The Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Contingency Fund helps the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program respond to marine mammal unusual mortality events.
To understand the health of marine mammal populations, scientists study unusual mortality events. Understanding and investigating these events is important because they can serve as indicators of ocean health.
The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program provides grants or cooperative agreements to eligible stranding network participants.
NOAA Fisheries' biological opinion considering the proposed research activities and considers the effects on endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat.
