Current Daily General and HMS Charter/Headboat Category Commercial BFT limits The General category daily retention limit is one large medium or giant BFT (73 inches CFL or greater) per vessel per day/trip. This daily retention limit is effective through May 31, 2005, inclusive. This limit applies to permitted Atlantic tunas General and HMS Charter/headboats (while […]
FOREIGN MASTER CHARGED WITH OPERATING VESSEL WHILE INTOXICATED NEW ORLEANS- The Greek master of a commercial ship pleaded guilty and was charged Thursday with operating his vessel while intoxicated. Nikolaos Zografos was charged before a U.S. magistrate judge with being drunk while aboard the 580-foot freight ship Winner at St. John’s Buoys, near Reserve, La. […]
COAST GUARD REQUESTS DUCK HUNTERS TO WEAR LIFE JACKETS The changing of the fall colors usually marks the start of hunting season for waterfowl. The Coast Guard wants to let hunters know they are not exempt from boating accidents. In 2003, nearly 70% of boating accidents that occurred while hunting resulted in fatalities. “Many hunters […]
NOAA TO DELIVER FINAL LECTURE ON HUMAN NOISE AND MARINE MAMMALSCongressman Sam Farr Scheduled to Participate Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service and various academic institutions will deliver the final lecture in a national series on the subject of human-made noise and marine mammals. The final lecture of […]
SUN SENDS SOLAR STORMS TO EARTH Nov. 8, 2004  Eruptions from a large and complex sunspot group are sending a series of solar storms to Earth. The NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., is monitoring these storms, which have the potential to affect spacecraft operations, electric power systems, high frequency communications and electronic […]
FREIGHTER COLLIDES WITH OFFSHORE PLATFORM GALVESTON, Texas Crewmembers from Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Galveston are investigating the early morning collision of an outbound freighter and an offshore platform located approximately 17 miles off the coast of Galveston. At 3:15 a.m., Coast Guard watchstanders at Group Galveston received reports of a platform fire in the Gulf of […]
POSSIBLE NEW SPECIES OF SEA SQUIRTS DISCOVERED OFF GEORGIA COAST IN GRAY’S REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY Three previously unknown sea creatures have been found at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary by Georgia Southern University scientists working there to document all the invertebrates living at the sanctuary. The sanctuary is managed by NOAA. The creatures are […]
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE-Intercommission Review Committee (IRC) The Intercommission Review Committee (IRC) will meet in New Bern on Monday, November 22, 2004 from 10 am until 3 pm at the Brock Administration Building on the campus of Craven Community College. The IRC is composed of two members each from the Environmental Management, Coastal Resources, and Marine […]
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE-North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission Southeast Advisory CommitteeNotice is hereby given that the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission Southeast Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 6:00 p.m. at the Wilmington Regional Office, located at 127 Cardinal Drive Extension in Wilmington, NC.The Committee will review and discuss a proposed amendment […]
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE-NC Marine Fisheries Commission Striped Mullet FMP Advisory CommitteeNotice is hereby given that the NC Marine Fisheries Commission Striped Mullet FMP Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Washington Regional Office, 943 […]
