MFC Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee The MFC Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee will meet on Monday, February 13 at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at the CMAST Bldg. Room 205 in Morehead City, NC. The committee will first receive MFC updates, approve minutes of two meetings, and review the handouts. They will […]
COAST GUARD TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR DOMINION BRIDGE REGULATIONS PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard will hold a public meeting to provide a forum for citizens to provide comments on operation regulations for the Dominion Boulevard (U.S. 17) Bridge in Chesapeake. The meeting will be open to the public and will be held at […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES NAVY PILOT MIAMI – A crew from Coast Guard Air Station Miami, Fla., rescued a Navy FA-18 pilot at 6:40 p.m. today after he was forced to eject from the aircraft five miles south of Boca Chica, Fla., today. The Navy pilot was hoisted into a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin Helicopter that […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES INDEPENDENCE, LA.-MAN, TWO CHILDREN NEW ORLEANS- A man and his two sons were lifted to safety Sunday after their boat sank in Lake Pontchartrain, forcing them to swim to shallow water and await rescue. Leon Powell of Independence, La., and his six- and eight-year-old sons left Madisonville, La., Saturday to fish and […]
HEARING THE WHALES: NOAA TRACKS WHALE CALLS OVER LARGE DISTANCES NOAA researchers and their partners have developed passive listening devices designed to record the calls of the Earth’s great whales. These moored autonomous hydrophones record sounds in the water, but do not actively emit sounds themselves. The new technology can be applied world-wide to investigate […]
The Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery Remains Open Persons aboard Angling and Charter/headboat vessels fishing recreationally may retain 1 bluefin tuna per vessel per day/trip, measuring 47 inches to less than 73 inches. All bluefin landed MUST be reported within 24 hours of landing to the www.nmfspermits.com website or by calling 888-872-8862 or, if landed […]
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board Approves Draft Addendum XVIII for Public Comment (Revises January 24, 2006 Release with the inclusion of information on the North Carolina public hearing) Washington, DC – The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board has approved Draft Addendum XVIII to the Summer Flounder Fishery […]
NOAA ANNOUNCES EXPANDED CORAL WARNING SYSTEMMeets International Partnership Goal of President’s Ocean Action Plan NOAA today announced that it will expand regional coverage for the NOAA Coral Reef Watch Satellite Bleaching Alert monitoring system from six Caribbean sites to a total of 24 sites throughout the U.S. and international Caribbean. This is one of President […]
NOAA SAYS LA NIÑA HERE AS PREDICTEDExpect Northwest Storminess and More Drought in South/Southwest Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center announced the official return of La Niña. Agency forecasters predicted La Niña was forming nearly three weeks ago. Oceanic sea surface temperatures have met the operational definition of La Niña for […]
NOAA ANNOUNCES FORECASTS OF ENTIRE ATLANTIC BASINNew System Gives Unprecedented Forecasts of Earth’s Second Largest Ocean NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center, Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, has implemented a new revolutionary Real-Time Ocean Forecast System that will provide mariners with “nowcasts” and five-day forecasts for the entire North Atlantic Ocean. The Real-Time Ocean Forecast System generates […]
