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Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement

Funds research and engineering work that cuts injuries and deaths in commercial fishing, from vessel design to severe-weather detection.

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Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, and Congress created a dedicated research programme for it. NIOSH runs that programme jointly with the Coast Guard, under a memorandum of understanding the two agencies signed in 2018.

The money funds research to improve the occupational safety of commercial fishing workers: better vessel design, better emergency and survival eq…

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