Month: January 2005

Scoping Meetings to Consider Effects of Acoustics on Marine Mammals

Scoping Meetings to Consider Effects of Acoustics on Marine Mammals NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Protected Resources will be holding four scoping meetings to gather public input on the criteria addressed in the Acoustic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This EIS will analyze the potential impacts of applying noise exposure criteria in guidelines to determine what constitutes […]

HIGH WATER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON MANY WESTERN RIVERS INCLUDING THE OHIO, ILLINO

HIGH WATER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON MANY WESTERN RIVERS INCLUDING THE OHIO, ILLINOIS AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Jan. 6) – Personnel from Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Pittsburgh are working with federal, state and local agency partners to secure several barges that broke loose during high water conditions on the Ohio River, today. HIGH WATER […]

NOAA RECEIVES NEW FISHERIES SURVEY VESSEL

NOAA RECEIVES NEW FISHERIES SURVEY VESSELAdvanced Capabilities Provide Unique Fisheries Research Platform Jan 6, 2005— NOAA took delivery yesterday of the first of a series of fisheries survey vessels from VT Halter Marine Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., in Pascagoula, Miss. This is NOAA’s first newly constructed fisheries survey vessel in more […]

POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI ON NEARSHORE MARINE ECOSYST

POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI ON NEARSHORE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS Jan. 6, 2005 — In addition to causing tremendous loss to human life and property, the tsunami that devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, may have also caused extensive environmental damage throughout the nearshore marine ecosystems in this region. […]

Comercial Striper Season Closed

Comercial Striper Season Closed Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 8:00 P.M., Wednesday, January 5, 2005 the following restrictions will apply to the harvest of striped bass with gill nets in the Atlantic Ocean waters of North Carolina. I. SEASON CLOSURE The Atlantic Ocean gill net season […]

Public Notice-Striped Mullet FMP Advisory Committee

Public Notice-Striped Mullet FMP Advisory Committee Notice is hereby given that the NC Marine Fisheries Commission Striped Mullet FMP Advisory Committee will meet on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Washington Regional Office, 943 Washington Square Mall, Washington, […]

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 5, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category closed at 341.6 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. The Angling category is currently open in […]

MANATEE MORTALITY 2004

MANATEE MORTALITY 2004(Mortality data provided by Ken Arrison) St. Petersburg, FL—Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) have confirmed that 276 manatees were documented to have died in state waters in 2004. While the total of 276 for 2004 appears to be a big drop from […]

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 4, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category has landed 339.3 mt of a proposed quota of 359.0 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. […]

TANKER ACCIDENT UPDATE

TANKER ACCIDENT UPDATE NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is continuing its investigation into an accident earlier today where a 793-foot tanker struck a pier on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Westwego, La. There were no reports of injuries ashore or on the Maltese-flagged tanker Tsunami. A Coast Guard helicopter overflight observed […]