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Weakfish Draft Addendum I Approved for Public Review & Comment

Weakfish Draft Addendum I Approved for Public Review & Comment Addendum to Address Stock Decline In response to a significant decline in stock abundance, the Commission’s Weakfish Management Board has approved sending forward Draft Addendum I to Amendment 4 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Weakfish for public review and comment. Concern over declining […]

ASMFC Approves Addendum XVII to the Summer Flounder FMP

ASMFC Approves Addendum XVII to the Summer Flounder FMP Addendum Allows for Establishment of Multi-state Regions and the Pooling of Multi-year Data The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board approved Addendum XVII to the Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan. The Addendum provides the states the option to voluntarily form multi-state regions […]

Dark False Mussels are Back in the Magothy River

Dark False Mussels are Back in the Magothy River For the second year in a row, dark false mussels (Mytilopsis leucophaeata) are abundant in the Chesapeake Bay’s Magothy River. The population of this small native mussel, usually restricted to oyster bars, exploded due to unknown causes during the summer of 2004. These mussels have returned […]

GROUNDED TANK BARGE MAY BE LEAKING

GROUNDED TANK BARGE MAY BE LEAKING HOUSTON – The Coast Guard, working in conjunction with local and state officials, continues to monitor a grounded sulfuric acid barge today. The tank barge that grounded on the banks of Chocolate Bayou Monday night may be leaking, for water samples taken early this morning showed a change in […]

EXPLORATION OF SOUTH PACIFIC FINDS STRANGE NEW SPECIES AND MAGICAL SCENES;

EXPLORATION OF SOUTH PACIFIC FINDS STRANGE NEW SPECIES AND MAGICAL SCENES; SETS RECORDS FOR NOAA UNDERSEA RESEARCH Aug 11, 2005 — The Research Vessel Ka`imikai-o-Kanaloa (KoK), its embarked remotely-operated-vehicle and two human-occupied submersibles Pisces IV and Pisces V, and a weary but proud team from Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, sailed into its homeport in Hawaii […]

NEW FISHING REGULATIONS PROPOSED FOR ATLANTIC TUNAS, SHARKS, SWORDFISH, AND BILL

NEW FISHING REGULATIONS PROPOSED FOR ATLANTIC TUNAS, SHARKS, SWORDFISH, AND BILLFISH The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is proposing new fishing regulations for Atlantic highly migratory species of tunas, sharks, swordfish, and billfish. The public has until October 18 to comment on the proposed measures. Tunas, swordfish and sharks are managed under the 1999 Atlantic […]

Public Meeting To Be Rescheduled

Public Meeting To Be RescheduledThe Sea Turtle Bycatch Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 16th has been canceled. The new date is Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 10:30 at the C-mast Building, room 305 at Carteret Community College.If you have any questions please feel free to contact Jess Hawkins at 252-726-7021 or Je**********@****il.net. Public […]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Approves N.C. Wildlife Action Plan

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Approves N.C. Wildlife Action PlanRALEIGH, N.C. (Aug. 12) — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission last weekbecame the first state fish and wildlife agency in the nation to receiveapproval for its Wildlife Action Plan — a long-term strategy to conservefish, wildlife and natural areas across the state to enhance wildlifepopulations and […]

THE CAPTAIN GREG MICKEY COMMITTEE

THE CAPTAIN GREG MICKEY COMMITTEE Dear Friends, I’m sure you are like many of Greg’s friends and associates – wanting to do something, anything to help.  With those same thoughts, an informal group has now turned into a formal committee, and this is what we have determined to do in memory of Greg:   We […]

WELCOME TO BILL’S CORNER!

WELCOME TO BILL’S CORNER! August, 2005 Dear Constituents, This summer, NOAA Fisheries Service offered a series of proposals to strengthen our guidelines to Councils on managing fish stocks. These guidelines will end overfishing quicker and require that timelines to rebuild the nation’s fish stocks be more consistent with the biology of the stocks. Since the […]