The Science and Research Fund provides grants of up to £50,000 to support research projects that help MSC certified fisheries uphold best practice in sustainability.
The Science and Research Fund did not open for applications in 2023/24.
Previous grant recipients
In 2023, we awarded over £320,000 to seven Science and Research Fund projects, through the Ocean Stewardship Fund. These research projects focus on reducing bycatch in MSC certified fisheries and include:
• 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
