Kingfisher is 35 miles offshore 4/2/04: This morning, Kingfisher is 35 miles offshore and is passing outside the entrance to Delaware Bay. See plot. His velocity continued to average just over 2 knots overnight. There is a slight lull in the otherwise very poor weather forecast today – however, conditions are far from favorable for […]
NOAA Fisheries Seeks Public Comment on a Proposed International Trade Permit for Tuna and Swordfish NOAA Fisheries has proposed modifications to its international trade tracking programs. These changes are necessary to implement conservation and management recommendations from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. The proposed rule […]
BARGE HITS MOORED U.S. COAST GUARD SHIPS CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A tug pushing two barges drifted into two U.S. Coast Guard ships at the north side of the Corpus Christi Inner Harbor at 4 p.m. Wednesday. One of the barges struck both the Coast Guard Cutter Mallet, a 75-foot inland construction tender, and the […]
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM SINKING VESSEL CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. – Two people were rescued from their sinking vessel in the Alligator River, near East Lake, N.C., this afternoon. Rob Ryan and Donald Stapkowitz, both from Easton, Md., contacted Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras at 1:30 p.m. to report their 36-foot pleasure craft Tons of Fun […]
TESTIMONY OF REBECCA LENT, Ph.D. DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES CONSERVATION, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS COMMITTEE ON RESOURCES U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HEARING ON H.R. 3378, the MARINE TURTLE CONSERVATION ACT OF 2003 MARCH 25, 2004 Mr. Chairman and Members […]
PT-1-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: CRAB POT ESCAPE RINGS Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 10:00 A.M., Friday, April 2, 2004, the following area will be exempt from the escape ring requirement in crab pots until 12:01 A.M., June 15, 2004. I. AREA DEION: Newport River bounded by the […]
FF-30-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: SCUP – RECREATIONAL PURPOSES – ATLANTIC OCEAN Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 10:00 A.M. Friday, April 2, 2004, the following restrictions will apply to the taking of scup for recreational purposes from the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15’N Latitude): I. […]
PA-18-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: 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 effective at sunrise, Thursday, April 1, 2004, the following privately controlled shellfish bottoms as indicated below are closed to the […]
Coast Guard Revises its Chemical Drug Testing Regulations The Coast Guard is revising its chemical drug testing regulations to conform with the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) final rule concerning Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Reporting published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2003. The DOT rule consolidated the 21 different Management Information System […]
GLOUCESTER MAN FOUND GUILTY OF MAKING HOAX CALLS TO COAST GUARD BOSTON – A Gloucester man pled guilty and was found guilty March 22 for violating the N.H. criminal law, “False Public Alarm,” for knowingly communicating false distress messages to the Coast Guard last year.Everett A. Sawyer, a fisherman, made numerous false “may-day” calls on […]
