NOAA Fisheries Service Considers Listing Eastern Oyster as Threatened or Endangered NOAA Fisheries Service will review the status of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) along the Atlantic and Gulf coast to determine if the species warrants protection under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). NOAA Fisheries Service received a petition in January 2005 to list the […]
15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open Captain Jordan Diemer, of Pura Vida, landed The 15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open was a great success this year attracting twenty-nine boats, paying out over $20,000 in angling awards and donating over $2000 to the Eckerd Group Foundation “Camp E-Tik-Etu”. The Open was held over the […]
COAST GUARD CUTTER FORWARD RETURNS HOME PORTSMOUTH, Va. The Coast Guard Cutter Forward is scheduled to return home today at 2 p.m. after a 67-day counter-drug patrol in the southern Caribbean Sea. Forward used an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, deployed aboard for the duration of the patrol, as well as assets from both the Coast Guard […]
Two Fishermen Rescued After Boat Starts Sinking PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Two Cape May fishermen were rescued today by the combined efforts of the Coast Guard and other fishing vessels. The two men on the 46-foot bay scalloper Captain Charlie, Matt McElroy and William Grier, radioed a distress signal to Coast Guard Group Eastern Shore operators […]
SEVEN RESCUED AFTER SPENDING THE NIGHT ON A BOAT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– Seven people were rescued this morning from their boat after becoming disoriented and running aground in the Mullica River last night. A 23-foot runabout boat, owned by Ed Ryan, was found at 7:30 a.m. by a Coast Guard rescue helicopter from Air Station […]
MFC Northeast Regional Advisory Committee The MFC Northeast Regional Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. (agenda attached). The meeting will be held at the College of the Albemarle, Building B, Room 202, located at 1208 North Road Street, Elizabeth City, NC.The committee will review and discuss the draft Striped […]
2004 SEAFOOD HARVEST FIGURES RELEASED Mixed Bag for North Carolina’s Fisheries MOREHEAD CITY – The state’s commercial fishing harvest, including two fishery mainstays, blue crabs and shrimp, experienced declines in 2004, according to harvest data recently released by the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. At the same time, recreational fishing trips in coastal waters continue […]
Two Fishermen Rescued After Boat Starts Sinking PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Two Cape May fishermen were rescued today by the combined efforts of the Coast Guard and other fishing vessels. The two men on the 46-foot bay scalloper Captain Charlie, Matt McElroy and William Grier, radioed a distress signal to Coast Guard Group Eastern Shore operators […]
Draft Addendum II to the Atlantic Menhaden FMP Approved for Public CommentStates to Conduct Public Meetings this SummerThe Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Management Board approved sending forward Draft Addendum II to Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden for public comment and review. Most states will be conducting public hearings on the […]
Public Comments Requested on a Proposal to Alter Time/Area Closure for Atlantic Sharks NOAA Fisheries Service has received a petition from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Marine Fisheries seeking to reduce the extent of the time/area closure for Atlantic sharks off the Mid-Atlantic region. This proposal requests a change […]
