Our funding is part of a larger project at the University of Washington (hence our URL) that primarily pays student and researcher salaries to build, maintain, and analyze fishery databases. We feature some of the research publications that come from those analyses, but also report on other studies. The money is provided to the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at UW, which oversees the project. Contributors to the project include various philanthropic foundations, government grants, international organizations, environmental NGOs, and some fishing companies and their affiliated NGOs.
Read Ray Hilborn’s thoughts on the role of industry funding.