The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) has allocated $45,000 in the 2023 budget to help fund the additional employment and training of RSW technicians in Bristol Bay. Funding will be distributed as grants of up to $15,000 per applicant.

This program, called “Expanding RSW Service Capacity in Bristol Bay,” is designed to support existing RSW technicians to hire and train apprentices to help perform more maintenance and repairs to RSW systems of Bristol Bay drift boats. The ultimate goal of the program is to produce more chilled salmon and a higher quality Bristol Bay sockeye salmon product.

This program is seeking all reasonable proposals that achieve the program’s intent. It is designed to help existing RSW technicians increase their capacity to efficiently serve more boats in the short term and involve and train more technicians in Bristol Bay in the long term.

This RFP is open to any established RSW business, processor, entity, or organization, and is not limited to those that receive this announcement directly.
Those seeking priority consideration should reply prior to the review date of Friday, April 10, 2023.

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