ROUGH SEAS THWART NOAA TEAM ATTEMPT TO REMOVE ROPE FROM ENDANGERED RIGHT WHALE Disentanglement Team Returns With Biopsy Samples March 24, 2004  Rough seas off the Carolina coast prevented veterinarians and whale experts from NOAA Fisheries and their rescue team partners from attempting to remove rope and buoys from the juvenile male endangered right […]
Hearing on Marine Turtle Conservation ActMarch 24, 2004 On Thursday, March 25, Rebecca Lent, Deputy Assistant Administrator for National Marine Fisheries Services, will testify before the House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans (Chair, Wayne Gilchrest R-MD) on HR 3378, The Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2003. Hearing on Marine Turtle Conservation […]
NOAA ANNOUNCES $408,363 FOR SOUTHEAST FISHERY HABITAT RESTORATIONProjects in Florida, North Carolina & South Carolina The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced awards totaling $408,363 for four local organizations in the southeastern United States to facilitate restoration of coastal and marine habitat critical to fishery resources. The projects are funded by the Community-based Restoration […]
NOAA ANNOUNCES $114,188 TO HELP RESTORE FISHERY HABITAT IN STUMP SOUND, N.C. The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $114,188 to the North Carolina Coastal Federation for a community-based project to restore fishery habitat in Stump Sound, Onslow County, N.C. The project is funded by the Community-based Restoration Program within the […]
NOAA ASSEMBLES RESCUE TEAM TO SEDATE WHALE, CUT LINE Endangered Right Whale Still Within Reach of Medical Help March 23, 2004  Veterinarians and whale experts from NOAA Fisheries are coordinating a rescue team that will attempt an at-sea removal of entangled ropes and buoys from a moving endangered North Atlantic right whale currently off […]
FDA and EPA Announce the Revised Consumer Advisory on Methylmercury in FishWASHINGTON, March 19 /U.S. Newswire/ — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today their joint consumer advisory on methylmercury in fish and shellfish for reducing the exposure to high levels of mercury in women who may become […]
North Atlantic Right Whales and Ship Strikes off the U.S. East Coast Problem: NOAA Fisheries has confirmed some 292 ship strikes on large whales (1975 to 2002), including 38 on North Atlantic right whales. These whales seem particularly susceptible, since they swim slowly, spend considerable time at the surface, and apparently take little or no […]
NOAA ISSUES 2004 U.S. SPRING OUTLOOK; DROUGHT CONCERNS CONTINUE IN PARTS OF THE WEST, LOWERED RISK OF FLOODING ACROSS COUNTRY March 19, 2004  Following a highly variable winter, scientists from the NOAA National Weather Service expect drought concerns to continue in parts of the West, while less snow and warmer conditions in the upper […]
FISHERMAN PENALIZED FOR MULTIPLE FISHING VIOLATIONS NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) announced today that Ronald Ringen, the owner and operator of the FV Survivor, has been issued a $96,750 Notice of Violation and Assessment (NOVA) for multiple violations of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management […]
FDA’s Revised Mercury Fish Advisory Not Protective Enough A revised “dietary advisory” for mercury in fish, expected to be released shortly by FDA, is neither science-based nor protective enough for women and children, stated some of the nation’s leading health, consumer and environmental groups in a letter recently sent to FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan. “While […]
