MPPEP Phase 3 Invasive Wild-Caught Catfish
- Posted
- August 7, 2025
- Closed
- October 6, 2025
- Award ceiling
- $1,000,000
- Award floor
- $250,000
- Program funding
- $6,000,000
- Expected awards
- 10
- Cost sharing
- Yes
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 10.381
- Category
- Agriculture
- Archives
- November 5, 2025
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 10.381 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $0
- FY2026 obligated
- $2M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 2
Top recipients: Bsa Seafood, Llc, Chippin, Inc.
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
The Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) provides grants to help eligible meat and poultry processors expand their capacity. USDA Rural Development designed this program to encourage competition and sustainable growth in the U.S. meat processing sector, and to help improve supply chain resiliency. The previous 2 Phases of MPPEP made available funding for new facilities and renovation and expansion of existing facilities.
USDA MPPEP Phase III is making competitive grant funding available specifically for the processing of wild-caught invasive catfish for purchase of equipment, including improvements, upgrades, renovations or retrofits to an existing Facility, needed to install the equipment to increase processing capacity of invasive, Wild-Caught catfish and overall volume of Processing. This will not only scale capacity and efficiency at Processing facilities, but also help to reduce Invasive Species populations that are decimating marine ecosystems and threatening the economy of the fishing industry.
Who can apply
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- City or township governments
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
for‐profit and nonprofit entities, producer‐owned Cooperatives and corporations, certified benefit corporations, Tribes and Tribal Entities, State or local government entities, and other business types (regardless of legal structure
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