COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING BOATER PORTSMOUTH, VA. – Rescues crews from the Coast Guard, Virginia Marine Police,Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Norfolk Police Department are searching the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay for a man whose boat was found this morning. Benjamin Phillips, 41, a Smithfield, Virginia, resident was last seen at approximately […]
Commercial Landings of Bluefin tuna As of 08/22/05 fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The Coastwide General Category has landed 50.3 mt out of 908.3 mt to date. The Harpoon category: 19.4 mt out of 90.0 mt to date. Longline North: 9.1 mt out of 116.3 mt to date. Longline South: […]
PROCLAMATION RE: STRIPED BASS RECREATIONAL- ATLANTIC OCEAN: OCRACOKE INLET TO NORTH CAROLINA/VIRGINIA STATE LINE Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Thursday, September 1, 2005 the following restrictions will apply to the recreational harvest of striped bass in the Atlantic Ocean waters of North Carolina from […]
BE CAREFUL JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 45-year-old Jacksonville woman has died from flesh-eating bacteria that she contracted while riding a personal watercraft on the St. Johns River, officials said. Candace Scott died Aug. 3, Duval County health officials said. One to three cases of flesh-eating bacteria are typically reported in the county each year, but […]
NOAA RELEASES NATIONAL STUDY OF U.S. CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMSNew Report Makes Case for an Integrated Observing System The nation’s coral reef ecosystems continue to face numerous stressors from both natural and human sources including overfishing, disease, pollution and climate change according to a new national assessment of the condition of U.S. shallow coral reef ecosystems. […]
Weakfish Draft Addendum I Approved for Public Review & Comment Addendum to Address Stock Decline In response to a significant decline in stock abundance, the Commission’s Weakfish Management Board has approved sending forward Draft Addendum I to Amendment 4 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Weakfish for public review and comment. Concern over declining […]
ASMFC Approves Addendum XVII to the Summer Flounder FMP Addendum Allows for Establishment of Multi-state Regions and the Pooling of Multi-year Data The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board approved Addendum XVII to the Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan. The Addendum provides the states the option to voluntarily form multi-state regions […]
Dark False Mussels are Back in the Magothy River For the second year in a row, dark false mussels (Mytilopsis leucophaeata) are abundant in the Chesapeake Bay’s Magothy River. The population of this small native mussel, usually restricted to oyster bars, exploded due to unknown causes during the summer of 2004. These mussels have returned […]
GROUNDED TANK BARGE MAY BE LEAKING HOUSTON – The Coast Guard, working in conjunction with local and state officials, continues to monitor a grounded sulfuric acid barge today. The tank barge that grounded on the banks of Chocolate Bayou Monday night may be leaking, for water samples taken early this morning showed a change in […]
EXPLORATION OF SOUTH PACIFIC FINDS STRANGE NEW SPECIES AND MAGICAL SCENES; SETS RECORDS FOR NOAA UNDERSEA RESEARCH Aug 11, 2005  The Research Vessel Ka`imikai-o-Kanaloa (KoK), its embarked remotely-operated-vehicle and two human-occupied submersibles Pisces IV and Pisces V, and a weary but proud team from Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, sailed into its homeport in Hawaii […]
