Announcement 2010-2011

Florida Aquaculture Review Council Projects

The Florida Aquaculture Review Council (ARC) hereby announces a request for statements of interest to perform aquaculture projects. Statements of interest will be reviewed by the ARC and selected investigators invited to submit full proposals. The source of funding for projects will be a State of Florida Legislative appropriation. No dollar amount is currently set aside for aquaculture projects. Funding for projects selected by the ARC is not guaranteed.

Statements of interest are strongly encouraged for short-term development, coordination, education, and implementation of aquaculture technical, research, market, and demonstration projects of strong interest by the aquaculture industry as found in the Florida Aquaculture Plan (http://www.floridaaquaculture.com/publications/aquaplan.pdf).

Appropriate forms for the Statement of Interest are available by contacting: Kim Norgren, Division of Aquaculture, 1203 Governors Square Boulevard, Tallahassee, Florida 32301, (850)488-4033, or email norgrek@doacs.state.fl.us. The deadline for submitting completed Statement of Interest forms is 5:00 p.m., February 13, 2009.