Category: AL

NOAA PLANS SHIFT IN GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE ORBIT TO IMPROVE WEATHER FORECAST COVERAGE OVER SOUTH AMERICAContinent Will Benefit from Emerging Global Earth Observation Network In Buenos Aires on Tuesday, NOAA, the Comisión Nacional de Activades Espaciales, and the World Meteorological Organization announced news of the repositioning of GOES-10. Shifting the spacecraft from its current position above […]

NMFS ADJUSTS GENERAL CATEGORY ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA DAILY RETENTION LIMITS The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) waives the previously designated General category restricted fishing days (RFDs) for January 20, 21, and 22, 2006. The daily retention limit on these days is increased from zero to two large medium or giant Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT), measuring […]

Navy Extends Comment Period on Environmental Impacts of Undersea Warfare Training Range; Deadline Jan 30 The Navy has extended the public comment period on the Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR) Draft Environmental Impact Statement until January 30, 2006. The Navy received several requests for extending the public comment period during public hearings and in subsequent […]

NOAA CoastWatch Establishes Data Node on East Coast NOAA Coast Watch is establishing an East Coast Node at NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office in Annapolis, MD to process near real-time oceanographic satellite data and make the data available to Federal, State and local marine scientists, coastal resource managers, and the general public. Anticipated to open in […]

Right Whale Calf Found Dead; Mariners Urged to Use Caution A North Atlantic right whale calf was confirmed dead on January 10 off the coast of Jacksonville, FL by members of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network. NOAA Fisheries Service coordinated a response team to examine the whale in an effort to determine the cause of […]

NOAA PREDICTS WEAK LA NIÑA Jan. 12, 2006 — Weak La Niña conditions are predicted in the tropical Pacific just in time for spring, but NOAA scientists stress it is too early to know how this could affect springtime and summertime weather patterns in the United States. La Niña is the periodic cooling of ocean […]

NOAA NAMES JOHN H. DUNNIGAN ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR NOAA’S NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE John H. Dunnigan, currently director of NOAA Fisheries Service’s Office of Sustainable Fisheries, has been named as the new assistant administrator for the NOAA Ocean Service by retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D, undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere […]

New York Resident Fined $2500 for Selling Tuna On the Internet NOAA has charged a resident of Forrest Hills, NY, with one count of selling an Atlantic tuna without a permit in violation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The tuna was caught during a chartered fishing trip aboard a fishing vessel based in Brielle, NJ, but […]

President Appoints Three Individuals to Tuna Commissions President George W. Bush has appointed Rodney R. McInnis, of California, to be the Federal U.S. Commissioner to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). Mr. McInnis, NOAA Fisheries’ Regional Administrator in the Southwest Region, will continue to lead the U.S. delegation at official meetings of the IATTC. He […]

Note from NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for Fisheries: Last year, NOAA Fisheries Service proposed some changes to the guidelines for implementing National Standard 1 of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which requires us to develop plans to end overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks. In response, we received more than 250,000 comments from the public. It’s clear that many […]