FAO’s Committee on Fisheries Adopts Guidelines for “Ecolabelling” of Marine Fish As reported in a press release from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), efforts to ensure the sustainability of the world’s marine fisheries got a boost earlier this month when the FAO Committee on Fisheries adopted a set of voluntary guidelines for […]
NOAA and Partners Launch Project to Restore Native Oysters in the Great Wicomico River On March 10, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office took part in launching a project that will seed 15 million disease-tolerant broodstock native oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the Great Wicomico River. Over-harvesting, degraded water quality and disease have reduced the population of […]
Management Measures Proposed for 2005 Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Recreational Fisheries NOAA Fisheries Service has published a proposed rule with recreational measures for the 2005 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries. The intent of these measures is to prevent overfishing. Total recreational landings of summer flounder for 2004 were an […]
Final Measures Issued for the 2005 Bluefish Fishery NOAA Fisheries Service has published a final rule, including state-by-state commercial quotas, a recreational harvest limit, and recreational possession limits for bluefish off the east coast of the United States. This rule establishes allowable 2005 harvest levels and possession limits to attain the target fishing mortality rate […]
NEW FLOUNDER RULES TO GO INTO EFFECT APRIL 1MOREHEAD CITY – Both recreational and commercial fishermen need to be aware that new catch and gear limits for southern flounder are going into effect April 1.The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission approved the conservation measures as part of the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan – a […]
CRAB POT AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR STATEMOREHEAD CITY – The great crab pot auction is underway! State Surplus is accepting sealed bids for abandoned crabs pots collected earlier this year by the North Carolina Marine Patrol. Money from the sale of these pots will go into the N.C. General Fund.Each year, fishermen are required […]
Fish and Wildlife Service proposes American crocodile in Florida to be downlisted from endangered to threatenedOne of America’s rarest reptiles, the American crocodile, has so improvedthat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to reclassify it from“endangered” to the less-dire status of “threatened” in its Florida range.Annual monitoring of the crocodile’s distinct population segment […]
BOATER MISSING FOR MORE THAN 36 HOURS RESCUED, SECOND FOUND DEAD MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – The Coast Guard located the two boaters missing since Saturday night, one alive, one dead. Jose Augustine Delgado, 41, was found alive 30 miles west of Marco Island and hoisted from the water by a rescue crew in an HH-60 […]
TUG WITH BARGE ON FIRE IN MATAGORDA BAY CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Coast Guard is responding to a fire on board the tug Nathan James in Port Lavaca Bay north of Port O’Connor, Texas. The Coast Guard received a MayDay call over VHF-16 marine radio at 12:20 p.m. from tug Grace Nichol, relaying information […]
Roanoke River At Weldon Fishing Report (3/23/05) WELDON, N.C.  Shad fishing on the Roanoke River at Weldon was slow but steady this past week. Things may change quickly, however, now that the weather is beginning to warm again and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decreased discharge today from 15,000 to 8,000 cubic feet […]
