Contact: 

Michael Ciaramella, Ph.D., New York Sea Grant Seafood Safety and Technology Specialist, E: c2544@cornell.edu, P: (631) 824-4746


Stony Brook, NY, September 24, 2024 - Attention Seafood Businesses — Are you interested in exploring new markets and expanding your business?

If so, check out the webinar recording below for an introduction to opportunities for accessing capital for New York Seafood Businesses.

The webinar was coordinated by New York Sea Grant and its partners — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and the America's Small Business Development Centers New York — in response to industry challenges identified at the 2024 New York Seafood Summit, events for which were held this past February and March. 

Discussed during the webinar: the basics of writing and applying for grant funding and applying for business loans. The team also provided tips and tricks for navigating the process and introduced additional resources that are available and relevant grant opportunities.


After viewing the webinar please take a few minutes to complete this short survey.

Additional Resources

• Access to Capital — Presentation | PDF

• Access to Capital — Grant Writing Outline and Resources | PDF


More Info: New York Sea Grant

New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.

Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark, and in Watertown. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, in Queens, at Brooklyn College, with Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC, in Bronx, with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County in Kingston, and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County in Elmsford.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly.