Assistance program
Sport Fish Restoration
$3.1 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 15.605
- What it does
- Sport Fish Restoration funds support activities designed to restore, conserve, manage, or enhance sport fish populations; the public use and benefits from these resources; and activities that provide boat access to public waters. Sport fisheries research and management activities; boating access development and maintenance; aquatic resource education activities; lake construction and maintenance; land acquisition; technical assistance; planning; habitat enhancement; administration; coordination; and hatchery construction are eligible under the Act.
- Who benefits
- State governments, U.S. Territories, and Commonwealths and the four interstate Marine Commissions
- Who applies
- State governments, U.S. Territories, and Commonwealths and the four interstate Marine Commissions
- Authorized by
- Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act—Sport Fish Restoration (16 U.S.C. §777 et seq., except §§777e-1 and g-1)
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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By dollars committed.
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- Committed through this program
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