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Updated 31 October 2026

Grants and funding for fishing and aquaculture businesses

Schemes open today that name fishing and aquaculture businesses in their published criteria, or fund the kind of work fishing and aquaculture businesses do. Read from the funders' own pages and re-checked daily.

4 open today. Whether your business qualifies for any of them depends on your legal form, your size, your age and where you are, which is what the check does.

Which of these can you actually get?

Enter your company number. We read each funder’s own page against your business and tell you which fit, which do not, and why.

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What kind of funding these are

Grants
4

A grant is money you keep. A tax relief lowers a bill rather than arriving as cash. In-kind support is training, credits or expert time instead of money. Loans and equity have to be paid back or bought back, and are worth treating as a different decision entirely.

Who can apply

Every one of these has published criteria. Across the 4, the conditions that come up most are that you must:

  • be spending within a range2 of 4
  • work in a named sector2 of 4
  • be under a headcount limit1 of 4
  • not have started the work yet1 of 4
  • be under a turnover limit1 of 4

Which of them you meet depends on your legal form, size, age and where you are registered. That is what the check reads for you, scheme by scheme, and it quotes the funder’s own sentence beside each answer.

What the money is for

  • Equipment 3
  • Premises 3
  • Business growth 2
  • Net zero and decarbonisation 2
  • Staff training 2
  • Job creation 1
  • Research and development 1
  • Community and social impact 1

How to apply

You apply to the funder, never to us. Every scheme above links straight to its own page, and that page is the only thing that decides whether you get it.

Before you spend an afternoon on a form, three things are worth checking: that you are inside the deadline; that you have not already started or paid for the work, which a great many grants refuse; and that you can fund the share they expect you to.

Most refusals are not close calls. They are a rule the applicant never saw, in a sentence on the funder’s own page.

Where else to look

The government publishes its own list, free, and you should use it. What is above is wider than that list, because it also holds council schemes, tax reliefs and in-kind support that Find a Grant does not carry — but if you only want a list, start there.

Find a grant, on GOV.UK

The 4 open today

  • Grant

    Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS)

    Marine Management Organisation (on behalf of Defra)

    Up to£750,000

    FaSS is a grant scheme for businesses and organisations in England's seafood sector, covering shore facilities, vessel energy efficiency, health and safety, marine environment restoration, cooperative and advisory activity, and diversification. It pays a percentage of eligible project costs, with the rate depending on the type of applicant, and applications are assessed continuously rather than against a fixed deadline.

    RollingThe funder’s page

  • Grant

    AD:VENTURE Growth Grant

    West Yorkshire Combined Authority

    Up to£5,000

    AD:VENTURE's Growth Grant offers West Yorkshire SMEs £1,500 to £5,000, covering up to 50% of eligible capital project costs, for growth investment such as equipment and IT. It is paid in arrears after the applicant has joined the AD:VENTURE programme and worked with a Business Manager on a diagnostic and action plan.

    RollingThe funder’s page

  • Grant

    Fisheries and Seafood Scheme (FaSS) — Competitive Funding Rounds

    Marine Management Organisation (MMO)

    The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme runs competitive funding rounds for larger fisheries and seafood industry projects worth over £250,000, covering labour and workforce development, community partnerships, and infrastructure. Applicants submit a business case ahead of one of several submission deadlines each year for review by a funding round panel.

    RollingThe funder’s page

  • Grant

    Marine Environment and Fisheries Fund 2026/27

    Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)

    DAERA's Marine Environment and Fisheries Fund 2026/27 is open for applications from Northern Ireland's sea fisheries and aquaculture industry, across six themed funding streams covering vessel investment, innovation, environment and conservation, aquaculture development, processing and marketing, and fishing ports infrastructure. Funded projects must be completed and a final claim submitted by 31 March 2027.

    RollingThe funder’s page