COAST GUARD CREWS FROM 2 STATIONS OFFSHORE OF OCEAN CITY, N.J. – Coast Guard and commercial salvage crews de-water a 27-foot pleasure craft Sunday, May 27, 2007. The Coast Guard received a call for assistance from four people aboard the vessel, taking on water about five nautical miles east of Ocean City at 11:23 a.m. […]
COAST GUARD STATION OREGON INLET ASSISTS SICK FISHERMAN PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard crewmembers from Station Oregon Inlet, N.C., rescued a fisherman reportedly suffering from an allergic reaction approximately 16 miles off the coast of North Carolina today. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina was notified at 6:30 a.m., by the crew of the fishing vessel Livewire that a crewmember was […]
PERMITS FOR 2007 ARE NOW AVAILABLE This notice outlines the procedure for obtaining a 2007/2008 Atlantic Tunas Permit, which allows you to commercially fish for and/or retain Atlantic Bluefin, Yellowfin, Skipjack, Albacore, and Bigeye tunas; an Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Angling Permit, which allows you to recreationally fish for and or retain any regulated […]
NMFS Proposes Initial Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quotas The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a proposed rule to set initial 2007 fishing year quotas for the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery and effort controls. Based on the 2006 quota recommended for the United States by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic tunas (ICCAT), […]
GILL NETS – CAPE FEAR RIVERDr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 8:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 30, 2007, the following restrictions will apply to the gill net fishery in the lower Cape Fear River:I. AREA: All waters of the lower Cape Fear River bounded on the north […]
Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Inland Regional Advisory Committee The Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Inland Regional Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, June 6, at 6 p.m., in the Ground Floor Hearing Room, The Archdale Building, Raleigh. The committee will receive updates on the Marine Fisheries Commission business meetings held in Carolina Beach and Kill Devil […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES MAN IN ALBEMARLE SOUND PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk Rescue helicopter crew based in Elizabeth City, N.C., responded to a report of an aground vessel with an injured boater in the Albemarle Sound today. The crew arrived on scene and hoisted a 54-year old man suffering from a concussion sustained […]
Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Northeast Advisory Committee The Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Northeast Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, June 7, at 6:30 p.m., in the Commission Chambers, Dare County Commission Building, 204 Ananias Street, Manteo. The committee will receive updates on the most recent Marine Fisheries Commission business meeting held in Kill Devil Hills […]
Assessments Scheduled for South Atlantic Amberjack and Red Snapper NOAA Fisheries has scheduled Southeastern Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) workshops for the South Atlantic stocks of greater amberjack and red snapper. These assessments will consist of a series of three workshops: a Data Workshop, an Assessment Workshop, and a Review Workshop. For more information, read […]
NOAA Predicts Above Normal Hurricane Season in 2007 Experts at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center are projecting a 75 percent chance that the Atlantic Hurricane Season will be above normal this year  showing the ongoing active hurricane era remains strong. For the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA scientists predict 13 to 17 named storms, […]
