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.
Applications for the Science and Research Fund are currently closed.
Previous grant recipients
Since 2020, we have awarded 31 grants and nearly £1.4 million in funding via Ocean Stewardship Fund to support research projects, including:
• Reducing sawfish interactions in Australia’s Northern Prawn Fishery• Statistics to predict silky shark hotspots and mitigate bycatch
• Seabird bycatch reduction in the Greenland lumpfish fishery
• Knowledge sharing to further reduce dolphin interactions in Australian and UK sardine fisheries
• Tagging silky sharks to identify post-release survival rates
• Improving data on seabird interactions in Alaskan salmon fishery
• Reducing turtle bycatch in the Réunion coastal longline swordfish fishery
