Apply to the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund: 3. Eligible activities

Step 3. Eligible activities

Eligible activities include projects focused on:

• innovation
• infrastructure
• science partnerships

Innovation

The following are examples of activities that are eligible for innovation funding.

• Research and development of new innovations to:
  • contribute to the sustainability and enhanced product quality of the fish and seafood sector
  • support the protection and restoration of wild BC fish stocks
• Pilots and testing of new innovations.
• Activities to introduce innovations to market.
• Initiatives supporting the creation of partnerships or networks that help innovation activities in the sector.

Infrastructure

The following are examples of activities that are eligible for infrastructure funding.

• Adopting new technologies, processes or equipment to improve the effectiveness, quality and sustainability of the fish and seafood sector, or that support the protection and restoration of wild BC fish stocks.
• Training associated with adaption of new technologies, processes or equipment.

Science partnerships

The following are examples of activities that are eligible for science partnerships funding.

• Science activities in support of the development of sustainable harvesting, processing and aquaculture technologies.
• Research on the impacts of ecosystem shifts on fish stocks, distributions and the commercial fishery.
• Initiatives supporting the creation of partnerships or networks that help scientific activities in the sector.
• Science activities that protect and restore the abundance of priority wild BC fish stocks, including wild salmon.