WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, NOAA AND DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR ANNOUNCE ACTIONS TO CONSERVE CORAL REEFS President Bush will request $2.7 million to support state and local coral conservation efforts to implement local action strategies developed by the states, territories and commonwealths that make up the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force. James L. Connaughton, […]
Interior Department on Front Lines of Coral Reef ConservationThe Department of Interior is playing a key role in a science-based,community-level campaign to protect coral reefs and is working with avariety of state, territorial and international partners to increaseunderstanding of the problems plaguing these sensitive ecosystems aroundthe globe, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks […]
STRIPED BASS RECREATIONAL SEASON – ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREA LOCATION Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Thursday, December 2, 2004 the season for striped bass taken for a recreational purpose in the Albemarle Sound Management Area will change with the following restrictions: I. AREA DESCRIPTION: […]
Army Corp Dredging Project Underway CAROLINA BEACH – Last week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began a two-month project of dredging of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and Carolina Beach Inlet.Cottrell Engineering Corp., the Virginia based dredging company hired by the Army Corp of Engineers, are pumping sand and mud from the bottom of the […]
NOAA AND PARTNERS REACH OCEAN OBSERVING MILESTONE WITH 1,500 OPERATIONAL ARGO FLOATSDevices Are a Key Element of Global Ocean Observing System NOAA and its partners announced that 1,500 free floating, data collecting devices are now in operation in the world’s oceans, reaching the half-way point of an eventual fleet of 3,000 floats. The devices, named […]
NOAA ISSUES NEW PARTNERSHIP POLICYResponse to “Fair Weather” Recommendations Strengthens Relationships Among Government, Universities and the Private Sector Dec. 1, 2004  NOAA announced today it is adopting a new policy to strengthen the partnership among government, academia and the private sector that provides the nation with high quality environmental information. “NOAA has a broad […]
NOAA PROVIDES WRAP-UP ON VERY ACTIVE 2004 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON Nov. 30, 2004  The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was one for the record books, say NOAA hurricane and climate prediction specialists. Nine named storms affected the United States during the six-month hurricane seasonâ€â€ÂÂÂthree as tropical storms (Bonnie, Hermine and Matthew) and six as hurricanes […]
General and Angling Categories Will Not Open Until Further Notice The General Category and Angling Category bluefin tuna fisheries will NOT open on December 1. No further information regarding the season will be available prior to Friday, December 3. Please check back again on December 3 for possible further developments. General and Angling Categories Will […]
Aquarius Aquanauts Study Chemical Warfare on Coral Reefs to Reveal Secrets of Seaweed and Fish Ecology Key Largo, Florida – The last Aquarius undersea laboratory science mission of 2004 will study how reef plants and corals use chemical defenses to ward off predators. The six-person crew is led by Deron Burkepile, Georgia Institute of Technology. […]
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ADOPTS U.S. PROPOSAL FOR SHARK FINNING BAN Sixty-three countries unanimously adopted historic and unprecedented protective measures for Atlantic sharks during the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. Led by NOAA, the United States delegation pushed for and won a consensus agreement. “This agreement is what we needed […]
