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Building a Sustainable Future

Invest in habitat conservation, research, and increasing fishing participation

The FishAmerica Foundation empowers ASA to unite the sportfishing industry with conservation groups, government natural resource agencies, corporations, and foundations to make a significant impact on sportfish habitat conservation, participation, and research.

Since 1983, the FishAmerica Foundation has awarded $12.1 million to 1,050 projects in all fifty states and Canada to enhance fish populations, restore fishery habitats, improve water quality, and advance fishery research to improve sportfishing opportunities and help ensure recreational fishing’s future.

The foundation is supported by sportfishing and boating companies investing in fishing’s future; government agencies that share our conservation mission; and individuals and private foundations looking to protect the outdoors for its lasting enjoyment.

When you support the FishAmerica Foundation, you support nationwide, grassroots efforts to conserve the outdoors and ensure that millions of Americans and our future generations can enjoy recreational fishing.

Mission

The FishAmerica Foundation’s mission is to unite the sportfishing and boating industries with non-endemic corporations, foundations, and government agencies to invest in fisheries and habitats in the U.S. and Canada.

In support of this mission, the FishAmerica Foundation provides grants to non-profit organizations and grassroots conservation entities to enhance fish populations, restore fisheries habitat, improve water quality, and advance fisheries research to improve sportfishing opportunities for millions of Americans and to help ensure that future generations also have the opportunity to enjoy recreational fishing.

History

The current day FishAmerica Foundation is the result of a merging of two previously independent foundations with a shared concern for fisheries resources:

  1. FishAmerica, founded in 1983 and designed to support hands-on, grassroots fishery improvement projects, and;
  2. The Sport Fishery Research Foundation (SFRF), developed in 1962 and designed to support research priorities to advance the science and management of sport fishing resources.

STAFF

Grants Manager
fafgrants@asafishing.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

With the exception of the Treasurer, the foundation’s board of directors is the same as the American Sportfishing Association.
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