Media Advisory Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Tugboat Crewman PORTSMOUTH, VA. – The Coast Guard has suspended the search this afternoon for Richard Kuczera, a 38-year old crewman from the tugboat Emma M. Roehrig. The search for Kuczera, a New York resident, who fell overboard at approximately 5 a.m. today, eight miles west of […]
SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following shellfish area temporary closure will take effect immediately:No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or […]
MFC Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee (AC) The MFC Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee (AC) will meet on Tuesday, January 17 at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at the NCDENR Regional Office in Washington, NC. The committee plans to finalize, discuss and approve the draft management options section for the gears of primary […]
COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR MISSING CREWMAN PORTSMOUTH, VA – The Coast Guard is searching for a tugboat crewman who who fell overboard approximately 5 a.m., near the CY buoy approximately eight miles west of Cape Charles, Va. A Coast Guard 25-foot search and rescue boat from Station Cape Charles and the Maryland pilot vessel Patasco […]
Tokai rescues two U.S. citizens at sea from vessel taking on water SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Two U.S. citizens were rescued at sea today by the crew of cargo vessel Tokai 55 nautical miles northwest of the Dominican Republic, after their vessel was taking on water. Steve Fierce, tug boat Monitor captain, relayed to […]
**UPDATE** COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR FROM SINKING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four people aboard a liferaft after their vessel began taking on water approximately seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 7:30 a.m. today. The crewmembers of the 38-foot, Scituate-based, vessel were hoisted into the […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR FROM SINKING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four people aboard a liferaft after their vessel began taking on water approximately seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 7:30 a.m. today. Coast Guard Group Woods Hole received a VHF-16 distress call from a […]
NOAA NAMES JOHN H. DUNNIGAN ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR NOAA’S NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE John H. Dunnigan, currently director of NOAA Fisheries Service’s Office of Sustainable Fisheries, has been named as the new assistant administrator for the NOAA Ocean Service by retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D, undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere […]
BREAKING GROUND TO EXPAND COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A ground breaking ceremony to commemorate the facility expansion project at Coast Guard Communications Area Master Station Atlantic (CAMSLANT) in Chesapeake, Va., is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Vice Admiral Vivien S. Crea, commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, will preside over the ceremony. […]
New York Resident Fined $2500 for Selling Tuna On the Internet NOAA has charged a resident of Forrest Hills, NY, with one count of selling an Atlantic tuna without a permit in violation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The tuna was caught during a chartered fishing trip aboard a fishing vessel based in Brielle, NJ, but […]
