Category: MA

NOAA EDUCATES BEACHGOERS ON HOW TO BREAK THE GRIP OF THE RIP® June 2, 2006 — Alerting beachgoers to the threat of rip currents and how to escape their strong and potentially fatal grip is the focus of NOAA’s national Rip Current Awareness Week, June 4-10, 2006. Rip currents are narrow channels of fast-moving water […]

NMFS Announces 2006 Bluefin Quotas and Effort Controls For a full description of this action please visit the library. The BFT retention limits are as follows: The coastwide General category Atlantic BFT fishery will reopen on June 1, 2006. The daily retention limit will be three large medium or giant BFT (73 inches or greater) […]

15th ANNUAL BALD HEAD ISLAND FISHING RODEO RESULTS Total Boats: 18 Day 1: Radiator Overflow not fishing Day 2: Impulsive, Radiator Overflow OVERALL TOURNAMENT WINNERS First Place Captain Ken Coffer, Carolina Beach, NC Desperado 273.68 $4,860 Second Place Captain Jerry Hedge, Wallace N.C. Pure Country 196.46 $2,916 Third Place Captain John Harriss, Wilmington, N.C. Carolina […]

NMFS Announces 2006 Bluefin Quotas and Effort Controls For a full description of this action please visit the library. The BFT retention limits are as follows: The coastwide General category Atlantic BFT fishery will reopen on June 1, 2006. The daily retention limit will be three large medium or giant BFT (73 inches or greater) […]

THE BLUE MARLIN ARE OUT THERE!Crystal Watters On the last day of the Swansboro Rotary Tournament, angler Butch Bryant aboard his father’s boat Maggie caught at big blue marlin weighing in at 553 lbs. to win the annual Memorial Day Tournament.“It took us about an hour and a half to get it to the boat”, […]

Sportfishing Coalition Lauds Improvements to Fisheries Bill by House Resources Committee WASHINGTON – A coalition of leading recreational angling and conservation organizations welcomed today’s action in the U.S. House of Representatives to advance an update of the country’s most important marine fisheries law. The House Resources Committee voted to send H.R. 5018, the American Fisheries […]

Extension of Comment Period on Striped Bass On April 24, NOAA Fisheries announced its intention to re-open the scoping process on the recommendations contained in Amendment 6 to Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass. NOAA Fisheries originally conducted scoping on the matter in 2003, but decided to re-open […]

NEW NOAA ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE LAUNCHED, REACHES ORBIT May 25, 2006 — NOAA and NASA officials confirmed that a new geostationary operational environmental satellite, designed to track hurricanes and other severe weather impacting the nation, successfully reached orbit last night after it was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft separation […]

Bipartisan fisheries management bill passes Resources Committee WASHINGTON – The House Resources Committee today approved H.R. 5018, the American Fisheries Management and Marine Life Enhancement Act, sponsored by Chairman Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), on a vote of 26 to 15. H.R. 5018 reauthorizes the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation […]

Regional Conservation Equivalency Proposed for Summer Flounder NOAA Fisheries has proposed measures contained in Framework Adjustment 6 to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan that would allow regional conservation equivalency in the summer flounder recreational fishery. The intent of this proposed rule is to increase flexibility and efficiency in the […]