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Building Bridges to Understand Fishing Communities and Fisheries

Implementing Organization

Mississippi Coalition for Vietnamese-American Fisher Folks & Families (MSCVAFF)

Overview

DWH Project Funding

$433,000

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Funding Organization

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)

Funding Program

NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants

Details

Project Category

Science

Project Actions

Promotion of Gulf Coast Seafood

Targeted Resources

Human and/or Institutional Capacity

Project Description

MSCVAFF works to address the immediate and long-term needs of the Vietnamese-American fishing communities that have been adversely impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With this award, the project team plans to connect scientists with multi-ethnic fishing communities in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi to encourage a two-way information exchange. Scientists will benefit from the traditional ecological knowledge that they learn from fisher folks, while fisher folks will learn about ecosystem research and data collection methods from their academic research scientist partners. By encouraging cooperative research that connects these two groups, the project team hopes to inform scientific research and fisheries restoration priorities with more comprehensive information about coastal ecosystems and to develop solutions to address chronic challenges that fishing communities face.

Contact

Thao Vu
None
ThaoVu337@gmail.com
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Project Partners

None

Affiliated Institutions

None

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