STRIPED BASS SEASON – OCEAN TRAWL: ATLANTIC OCEAN Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 7:00 A.M., Monday, January 31, 2005, the season for the harvest of striped bass with ocean trawls in the Atlantic Ocean waters of North Carolina WILL OPEN. The following restrictions will apply: I. SIZE […]
NEW OYSTER RESTRICTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED MOREHEAD CITY – The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) will be holding a series of meetings to discuss new limits on the mechanical harvest of oysters in Pamlico Sound tributaries. The MFC is considering amending the state’s Oyster Fishery Management Plan to add additional restrictions on the harvest […]
MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION TO MEET FEBRUARY 2-4, 2005 Morehead City – The Marine Fisheries Commission will meet February 2-4 at Shell Island, Wrightsville Beach, NC. The meeting is open to the public. On February 2, the Commission will hold a public meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. where the public is invited to discuss any fisheries […]
BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEAN Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M, Sunday, January 16, 2005, the following restrictions will apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15’N. Latitude): I. SIZE LIMIT It is unlawful […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES HUNTER PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Coast Guard crew rescued a duck hunter whose boat was stuck in the ice in Chincoteague Bay this afternoon. After receiving a cell phone call from Anthony McGee about 12:30 p.m., a Coast Guard Station Chincoteague crew launched their 23-foot rescue boat to an area about three […]
THREE HUNTERS AND DOG RESCUED ASSATEAGUE ISLAND, Md. – Three hunters and their dog were rescued by the Coast Guard, Virginia Marine Police and the Maryland State Police in Chincoteague Bay, Va., on Tuesday night. At approximately 6:20 p.m., Worchester, Md., 911 received a phone call from three hunters on a cellular phone to report […]
SHIP MASTER GUILTY OF OPERATING VESSEL UNDER THE INFLUENCE NORFOLK, Va. – The master of a Panama-flagged freighter was convicted Wednesday of operating a commercial vessel while under the influence of alcohol and was fined $3,000 and ordered not to operate a vessel in U.S. waters for one year. Immigration officials are also processing Hungarian […]
Corps and Coast Guard work cooperatively to address shoaled inlets WILMINGTON, NC – The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is working closely with the United States Coast Guard as the Coast Guard plans to remove entire buoy systems from four dangerously shoaled inlets along the North Carolina Coast. These inlets are Lockwoods Folly […]
Long Distance Movements of Atlantic Sharks from the NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program* by J.G. Casey and N.E. Kohler *In: Discovering Sharks. 1990. S.H. Gruber ed. American Littoral Society, Highlands, N.J. pp.87-90. In 1962, the U.S. Government initiated a shark tagging program in the Atlantic Ocean with the volunteer assistance of sport and commercial fishermen. […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES 2 FROM LIFE RAFT ATLANTIC CITY – With heavy weather rolling in, the Coast Guard Cutter Ibis rescued two men from a life raft after their 45-foot scalloper sank about 20 miles east of Atlantic City today. The F/V Chico Bravo began taking on water and sank leaving the two men onboard, […]
