Category: BA

POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI ON NEARSHORE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS Jan. 6, 2005 — In addition to causing tremendous loss to human life and property, the tsunami that devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, may have also caused extensive environmental damage throughout the nearshore marine ecosystems in this region. […]

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 5, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category closed at 341.6 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. The Angling category is currently open in […]

MANATEE MORTALITY 2004(Mortality data provided by Ken Arrison) St. Petersburg, FL—Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) have confirmed that 276 manatees were documented to have died in state waters in 2004. While the total of 276 for 2004 appears to be a big drop from […]

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 4, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category has landed 339.3 mt of a proposed quota of 359.0 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. […]

Public Affairs Office Receives Generous Digital Imaging Grant from Kodak through the National Park Foundation (Washington, D.C.) — Public Affairs chief, David Barna announced today that the National Park Service Office of Public Affairs has received $4,724 worth of professional digital photography equipment from Kodak through the National Park Foundation as part of the Proud […]

NOAA TEAM FREES WHALERare Endangered Right Whale Freed from Ropes and Buoys Jan 4, 2005— NOAA and its rescue team partners spent New Year’s Eve off South Carolina coast working to free a young endangered right whale entangled in ropes and buoys. The young Atlantic right whale was first spotted on Dec. 5 off the […]

Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge to Rebuild Historic Pier The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge <http://mattamuskeet.fws.gov/swanquarter/> in Hyde County, North Carolina, today announced plans to rebuild the Bell Island Pier. “The pier was renovated in 2003 after Hurricane Floyd severely damaged it,” said Bruce Freske, refuge manager. Unfortunately, it was only open […]

General Category Re-opens January 2 – 4, 2005, and transfers BFT Quota NOAA Fisheries has determined to reopen the coastwide General category Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery for the time period of 12:30 a.m. January 2 through 11:30 p.m. January 4, 2005, inclusive. NOAA Fisheries has also determined that a quota transfer from the Atlantic […]

General Category Season Update to be Posted on December 30 An update regarding the bluefin tuna General category fishery season will be posted by 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 30. This update will also be available on the following automated information lines under the commercial fishery option: 978/281-9260 or toll free 1-888-872-8862. General Category Season […]

NOAA AND PARTNERS DISCOVER LIQUID CARBON DIOXIDE ‘CHAMPAGNE’ BUBBLES AT HYDROTHERMAL VENT What first appeared to be effervescent bubbles, like those in champagne, rising from a hydrothermal vent area in the northern Mariana Arc of the Pacific Ocean turned out to be liquid carbon dioxide. This is only the second location where the phenomenon has […]