SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREAPreston 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 changes in shellfish harvesting areas will take effect at sunrise, Friday, April 7, 2006.All those waters in New Hanover County return to […]
COAST GUARD FINDS MISSING FISHERMAN DECEASED Atlantic Beach, N.C. – Lawrence Tate, 72, of Belhaven, N.C., was found deceased today at 4:35 p.m. at Woodstock Point and the mouth of Pungo Creek by a good Samaritan. At 8:30 a.m. Monday, Sector North Carolina received a report of an unmanned, 35-foot fishing vessel with its fishing […]
Marine Fisheries Commission Central Regional Advisory Committee The Marine Fisheries Commission Central Regional Advisory Committee will meet on Monday, April 10, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Washington Regional Office, located at 943 Washington Square Mall, Washington, NC.The committee will review and discuss the passage […]
NTSB DETERMINES IMPROPERLY INSTALLED FUEL-INJECTION LINE CAUSED FIRE ON A SMALL PASSENGER VESSEL IN FLORIDA IN 2004 Washington, DC — The National Transportation Safety Board determined today that the probable cause of the fire on board the Shuttle Express II was a fractured, improperly installed fuel-injection line on the inboard side of the starboard engine […]
Scoping Meetings on Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fisheries Begin Apr 3 Ten scoping meetings have been scheduled on issues to be discussed in Amendment 15 to the Fishery Management Plan for Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass. The issues under consideration would affect recreational and commercial fishermen. Manteo, NC; April 3, […]
New Requirements for Bottom Longline Fishery Would Protect Sea Turtles and Reef Habitat This proposed rule would establish additional handling, release, and disentanglement requirements for non-target species caught in the shark bottom longline fishery. These new practices, which have already been adopted in the pelagic longline fishery, are designed to reduce the injuries and deaths […]
New Proposal Addresses Mitigation of Impacts to Wetlands On March 27, EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced proposed revisions to regulations governing compensatory mitigation for authorized impacts to wetlands, streams, and other waters under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. These revisions are designed to improve the effectiveness of compensatory mitigation […]
NRC Endorses Proposal for Saltwater Angler Registration The National Research Council (NRC), part of the National Academy of Sciences, has presented NOAA with the preliminary findings of a study to improve the agency’s scientific program for recreational marine fisheries. NOAA commissioned the NRC study in 2004 to gain unbiased scientific insight into ways the agency […]
DANGER BELOW THE SURFACEStory by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert M. Reed and Lt. Ann McSpadden The bayous, rivers and waterways of southern Louisiana have always been a dangerous, mysterious place filled with swimming alligators, silent snakes and bugs of all kinds. Since Hurricane Katrina came through, things have gotten a little more treacherous for […]
Roanoke River Fishing Topics to be Discussed in Plymouth The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the Town of Plymouth invite the public to attend a fisheries information meeting at the Vernon James Center on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m. Wildlife Resources Commission fisheries biologists will present an overview of current fisheries research projects on […]
