Funding will focus on projects that improve protected species recovery and support sustainable fisheries
As part of its efforts to promote healthy ecosystems and resilient coastal communities, NOAA is announcing today the availability of $9 million in Community-based Restoration Program funding for coastal and marine habitat restoration in 2016.
![Projects will create habitat for protected species, like this project in Oregon that restored estuary and wetland habitat critical to Oregon Coast chinook and coho salmon. (Image credit: NOAA) Projects will create habitat for protected species, like this project in Oregon that restored estuary and wetland habitat critical to Oregon Coast chinook and coho salmon.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/PHOTO-Oregon-project-to-restore-estuary-habitat-for-OR-coast-chinook-and-coho-salmon-021216-4368x1981-original.jpg?itok=8fUnyPZN)
Projects will create habitat for protected species, like this project in Oregon that restored estuary and wetland habitat critical to Oregon Coast chinook and coho salmon. (Image credit: NOAA)