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Sport Fish Restoration

Program Information

Popular name

Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Program

Program Number

15.605

Program objective

Sport Fish Restoration funds support activities designed to restore, conserve, manage, or enhance sport fish populations; the public use and benefits from these resources; and activities that provide boat access to public waters. Sport fisheries research and management activities; boating access development and maintenance; aquatic resource education activities; lake construction and maintenance; land acquisition; technical assistance; planning; habitat enhancement; administration; coordination; and hatchery construction are eligible under the Act.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    No information available. The Program received 597 applications and issued 597 awards.

  2. 2018

    The Program received 597 applications and issued 597 awards.

  3. 2019

    The Program received 597 applications and issued 597 awards.

  4. 2020

    The Program received 597 applications and issued 597 awards.

  5. 2021

    The Program receives and funds approximately 595 grant proposals annually.

  6. 2022

    The Program receives and funds approximately 595 grant proposals annually.

  7. 2023

    General program accomplishments can be viewed here: https://partnerwithapayer.org/news/

  8. 2024

    Program has not yet completed selecting projects for funding.

  9. 2025

    Program has not yet completed selecting projects for funding.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

50 CFR 80 contains the program regulations for this program. Matching and cost-sharing requirements are discussed in 50 CFR 80.85 and 2 CFR 200.306. Applicants can visit these regulations and guidelines at http://fawiki.fws.gov/display/WTK/Toolkit+Homepage

  1. Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act—Sport Fish Restoration (16 U.S.C. §777 et seq., except §§777e-1 and g-1).