Opportunity Information: Apply for F18AS00275
The grant opportunity titled "Ontonagon River streamside rearing trailer parentage analysis" is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of the Interior) cooperative agreement focused on improving restoration and stocking practices for lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes, specifically Lake Superior. Lake sturgeon are considered a species of management concern across the basin, and Lake Superior populations are especially important from a genetics standpoint because they show strong spatial genetic structure and relatively high genetic differentiation compared to sturgeon populations elsewhere in the Great Lakes. That means individual river or spawning groups can be genetically distinct, so restoration efforts need to be careful not to erode that structure or unintentionally reduce genetic diversity.
The core purpose of the project is to use genomic DNA methods to determine the parentage of individual lake sturgeon that are reared in a streamside rearing trailer on the Ontonagon River. In practical terms, this means genetically matching young sturgeon produced and raised through the program back to the adult males and females that contributed eggs and milt. The project is designed to evaluate how well the program is preserving parental genetic diversity from the earliest stages (egg collection and fertilization) through rearing and ultimately to the point when fish are large enough for tagging and stocking. While agencies already follow established genetic stocking guidelines for the Great Lakes, those guidelines can be difficult to meet perfectly because real-world losses occur at every stage, including incomplete fertilization, variable hatch success, mortality during rearing, uneven growth affecting the ability to tag individuals, and survival after stocking. By quantifying which parents actually contributed surviving offspring, and in what proportions, managers can see whether the intended number of parents and mating designs are translating into the genetic outcomes they were aiming for.
The results are meant to serve as a genetic performance check on hatchery and rearing practices. Parentage analysis can reveal issues such as disproportionate family representation (where offspring from a few adults dominate the cohort), unexpectedly low effective number of breeders, or bottlenecks caused by survival differences among families. That information can then be used to refine collection strategies, spawning and fertilization protocols, and rearing approaches so that stocked cohorts better reflect the diversity of the wild breeding population and align more closely with regional genetic guidelines for sturgeon restoration.
Administratively, this is not a competitive funding opportunity. It is a notice of intent to make a single-source award to West Virginia University under the DOI justification cited as 505 DM 2.14.B.4. The stated reason competition is not practical is that WVU's genomics lab already maintains the baseline genetic dataset for Great Lakes lake sturgeon and has prior experience analyzing cohort genetic diversity in other Lake Superior populations. Using an existing lab with the reference data and established analytical pipeline is presented as the most economical and efficient way to complete the work.
Key details from the listing include: Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00275; funding instrument is a Cooperative Agreement; activity area is Environment and Natural Resources (CFDA 15.678); expected number of awards is 1; maximum award amount is $104,934; and the posting was created August 6, 2018 with an original closing date of August 13, 2018. The notice explicitly states there is no application process because the award is intended for WVU as a single-source cooperative agreement.Apply for F18AS00275
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ontonagon River streamside rearing trailer parentage analysis" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.678.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 06, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 13, 2018 There is not an application process for this funding opportunity. This is a notice of intent to award a single source cooperative to West Virginia University under justification 505DM 2.14.B.4.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $104,934.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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