COAST GUARDSMEN RECEIVE AWARDS FOR ACTIONS IN IRAQ PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Members of a Coast Guard team will receive medals today for their actions in Iraq. The Redeployment Assistance and Inspection Detachment (RAID) was the furthest deployed Coast Guard unit in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. They conducted hazardous materials field training and inspections with Navy […]
RIVER HERRING Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Sunday, February 5, 2006, the river herring season shall open and the following restrictions shall apply to the harvest:I. SEASONA. The river herring season in all Coastal and Joint waters areas, excluding the Albemarle Sound Herring Management […]
TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF RULE – RIVER HERRINGPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01A.M., Sunday, February 5, 2006, the following shall apply to North Carolina Fisheries Rules for North Carolina Waters:1. North Carolina Fisheries Rules for Coastal Waters 15A NCAC 3M .0513 is modified by the suspension of […]
GENERAL CATEGORY ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA FISHERY CLOSURE REMINDER The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has determined via the implementing regulations for the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS), located at 50 CFR § 635.27, that the 2005 General category Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) season (June 1, 2005 – January 31, 2006) will close on January 31, […]
COAST GUARD CREWS SEIZE MORE THAN 10,000 POUNDS OF FISH SUSPECTED TO BE CAUGHT ILLEGALLY GRAND ISLE, La.- Crews from Coast Guard Station Grand Isle, La., responded late Thursday to a call that led to the seizure of more than 10,100 pounds of fish from a fishing vessel allegedly engaged in illegal fishing activities, including […]
NOAA REPORTS 2005 GLOBAL TEMPERATURE SIMILAR TO 1998 RECORD WARM YEAR Scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., today said the 2005 global temperature was statistically indistinguishable from the standing record set in 1998. Using two global data sets developed at NCDC, scientists determined that the 2005 average temperature was part of […]
Navy, Coast Guard Aim to Prevent Piracy U.S. Navy and Coast Guard officials are determined to stop pirates from threatening Americans and American interests. Incidents of piracy have become even more prevalent over the last two years, especially off the coast of Somalia and in the South China Sea. In 2004, 330 incidents of piracy […]
ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board Approves Draft Addendum XVIII for Public CommentThe Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Boardhas approved Draft Addendum XVIII to the Summer Flounder Fishery ManagementPlan for public comment and review. The Draft Addendum proposes to alterthe summer flounder recreational specification process in 2006 only. […]
NC Navy sonar range–public comment deadline TODAY (Jan. 30)You may have heard about this, and even if you don’t fish this far north, I hope you’ll help. It could have wide-ranging effects even out your way.The United States Navy is proposing to put an offshore underwater sonar training range 47 miles off the coast of […]
FISHING VESSEL CAPTAIN MEDEVACED BY COAST GUARD ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. –A rescue helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City and a 47-foot rescue boat from Coast Guard Station Atlantic City responded to the fishing vessel Shoreline, a 60-foot scalloper homeported in Atlantic City, after receiving a distress call concerning a hurt fisherman. The captain […]
