The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is awarding two grants totaling $356,000 to the Passamaquoddy Tribe of the Pleasant Point Reservation and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs for natural resource conservation projects.

The tribes and other conservation partners will contribute an additional $343,000 for the projects.

The Passamaquoddy received a $105,896 tribal wildlife grant to restore alewives, American eel and other native sea-run fish by repairing a fish ladder and installing an eel passageway at the Passamaquoddy Water District dam in the Little River.

The grant will be matched by $15,300 in cash and in kind contributions from the tribe, the state Department of Marine Resources, Maine Rivers and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

The Aroostook Band of Micmacs has been awarded a $250,000 tribal wildlife grant for acquiring land to permanently protect natural resources of traditional importance to the tribe. The tribe will match the grant with $327,000 in cash.