NOAA OFFERS NEW EDUCATIONAL DISCOVERY KIT ON NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION A new online educational product, The Nonpoint Source Pollution Discovery Kit, is now available online. The kit explains the history of pollution, the differences between point and nonpoint source pollution, types of pollutants, and how scientists monitor, assess and control nonpoint source pollution. This online […]
Lower Summer Flounder Quotas to Keep Rebuilding on Track; Public Comments Accepted through Dec 6 NOAA Fisheries Service has proposed new management measures for the 2006 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries. In June 2005, an assessment of the summer flounder stock indicated that overfishing is occurring. Although the summer flounder stock continues […]
ESA Petition for the Eastern Oyster Withdrawn On January 11, 2005, NOAA Fisheries Service received a petition to list the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NOAA has recently received a letter from the petitioner that officially withdraws this petition. The petitioner’s request has been accepted, and […]
New Report Released on Fisheries of the United States NOAA Fisheries Service has just released the annual report on Fisheries of the United States (2004). This publication provides the latest data on the following: U.S. Commercial Fishery Landings U.S. Marine Recreational Fisheries World Fisheries U.S. Production of Processed Fishery Products Foreign Trade U.S. Supply Per […]
Hogarth Elected as Chairman of ICCAT Member nations of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) have elected William T. Hogarth, director of NOAA Fisheries Service, to serve as Commission chairman. “Dr. Hogarth’s election to chair this important commission is a significant milestone in the U.S. effort to bring about improved international […]
NOAA ISSUES FINAL 2005-2006 U.S. WINTER OUTLOOK: ENSO conditions unlikely to impact Winter Nov. 17, 2005  As meteorological winter approaches, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center issued the final update to the 2005-2006 U.S. Winter Outlook. For December through February, the outlook continues to call for this winter to be warmer than the 30-year average. […]
NOAA ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR DAM AND STREAM BARRIER REMOVAL PROJECTS The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the availability of up to $6 million in financial assistance for the Open Rivers Initiative. This program will provide grants, anticipated to range from $50,000-$250,000, for communities to remove obsolete and derelict stream barriers. “Many small communities and […]
Fifth generation of endangered whooping cranes enter Kentucky enroute to FloridaNearly halfway to their winter destination, twenty ultralight-led whoopingcranes entered Shelby County, Kentucky today to begin the southeasternportion of their 1,228-mile fall migration to their winter home atChassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Crystal River, along Florida’sgulf coast.On October 14, the birds left Necedah National Wildlife […]
DUTCH HARBOR-UNALASKA, ALASKA AND NEW BEDFORD, MASS., LAND TOP U.S. FISHING PORTS RANKINGS FOR 2004 Commercial fishermen unloaded 886.4 million pounds of fish and shellfish at the port of Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska, last year, making it the country’s top port for landings in 2004, the NOAA Fisheries Service announced today. The port of New Bedford, […]
NOAA STUDY SHOWS NEATNESS COUNTS IN PREVENTING DOLPHIN ENTANGLEMENT IN CRAB POT FISHEREIS Reducing bottlenose dolphin entanglements in the South Carolina crab pot fishery may be as simple as keeping the rope tied to the pot in a straight untangled line as it goes into the water, according to NOAA researchers. The study, prepared for […]
