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 […]
President Appoints Three Individuals to Tuna Commissions President George W. Bush has appointed Rodney R. McInnis, of California, to be the Federal U.S. Commissioner to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). Mr. McInnis, NOAA Fisheries’ Regional Administrator in the Southwest Region, will continue to lead the U.S. delegation at official meetings of the IATTC. He […]
Note from NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for Fisheries: Last year, NOAA Fisheries Service proposed some changes to the guidelines for implementing National Standard 1 of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which requires us to develop plans to end overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks. In response, we received more than 250,000 comments from the public. It’s clear that many […]
