BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01A.M., Monday, November 14 2005, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15.3’N. Latitude):I. SIZE LIMITIt is unlawful to possess black sea […]
SEA TURTLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING The MFC Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee (AC) will meet on Thursday, November 3, at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be held in Room 305, C-Mast Building, Carteret Community College, Morehead City, NC. The Committee will review, discuss, and will hopefully approve the draft version of the compiled introduction and […]
FLOUNDER – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Tuesday, November 1, 2005, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial flounder fishery:I. HARVEST LIMITSA. From November 1 through November 13, 2005, no commercial fishing operation, regardless of the number of […]
Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Finfish Advisory Committee The Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Finfish Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 1 at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be at the Craven County Community College in the Bender Building, room #116, located at 800 College Circle, New Bern, NC. The Bender Building is the first building […]
SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Preston 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 shellfish area temporary closures will take effect immediately:No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or […]
Commercial Landings of Bluefin tuna As of 10/24/05 fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coast wide General category has landed 122.6 mt out of 908.3 mt to date. The Harpoon category: 23.1 mt out of 90.0 mt to date. Longline North: 14.5 mt out of 116.3 mt to date. Longline […]
INITIAL WHITE SHRIMP SAMPLES FROM MISSISSIPPI SOUND SHOW NO ELEVATED CONTAMINANTS Oct. 26, 2005  NOAA announced today that tests of white shrimp samples collected the week of September 12 from Mississippi Sound found no elevated contaminants. The agency collected 23 samples of white shrimp from Mobile Bay to Lake Borgne two weeks after Hurricane […]
Mackerel Advisory Panel Meeting via Conference Call Scheduled for November 3, 2005The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) will hold a meeting of its King and Spanish Mackerel Advisory Panel (AP) via conference call on November 3, 2005 beginning at 1:00 p.m. to address: 1) Amendment 17 to the Coastal Migratory Pelagic Resources (Mackerel) Fishery […]
Public Comment Period Open for Snapper Grouper Amendment 13C – Public Hearing Draft Available/ Public Hearings ScheduledPublic Hearing Draft – Snapper Grouper Amendment 13C (5 MB PDF) The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is soliciting public comment on Amendment 13C to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan. The amendment contains a range of management alternatives […]
Southeast Bycatch Workshop The Southeast Bycatch Workshop, originally scheduled for November 8-10, 2005, has been rescheduled to May 16-18, 2006. The Steering Committee decided to postpone the Workshop because many of the key participants in the Gulf of Mexico have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. A schedule for the workshop will be […]
