Category: MS

NOAA DIVERS HELP IDENTIFY HISTORIC SHIPWRECK OFF ALASKA July 28, 2004 — Divers working 80 feet below the surface of Monk’s Lagoon off Kodiak Island, Alaska, have identified a shipwreck first discovered in July of 2003 as the Russian-American Company ship Kad’yak, lost in 1860. The team will continue to map the wreck and recover […]

NOAA, LOUISIANA SCIENTISTS ISSUE “DEAD ZONE” FORECAST July 26, 2004 — A team of NOAA scientists, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University is forecasting that the “Dead Zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas this summer should be roughly the same size as it has been since 1990. This summer’s Dead […]

Open comment period on NOAA’s updated Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is available at the NOAA Strategic Planning Office Web site, www.spo.noaa.gov. NOAA is asking for comments by 5:00 P.M. Eastern time on August 27, 2004. Comments may be submitted via e-mail to: st****************@**aa.gov, or sent to Dr. James H. Butler, NOAA Strategic Planning Office, […]

Recreational Fisheries Draft Strategic Plan Public Meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia NOAA Fisheries and the Coastal Conservation Association of Virginia, are hosting the final in a series of constituent meetings at the Oceans East 2 Tackle Shop, in order to receive input for the development of a marine recreational fisheries management plan for the next […]

Sea Turtle Handling Workshops Scheduled for Fishermen NOAA Fisheries will hold voluntary workshops on the proper use of sea turtle handling and release equipment and on the current regulations for the pelagic longline fishery. The techniques that will be demonstrated at the workshops are required by fishermen using pelagic longline gear and will greatly increase […]

Legislative Session Day 146 (07-17-2004)HB 831 COASTAL RECREATIONAL FISHING LICENSE. Sponsor: GIBSONJuly 17, 20048:55pmTotal Votes: 100Ayes: 66Noes: 34Not: 10Exc. Absent: 10Exc. Vote: 0 Ayes: Representative(s): Adams, Allen, B., Allen, G., Allen, L., Barbee, Bell, Black, Blust, Bonner, Bordsen, Bowie, Brubaker, Carney, Creech, Culp, Culpepper, Cunningham, Daughtridge, Dickson, Ellis, England, Farmer-Butterfield, Fisher, Fox, Gibson, Glazier, Goforth, […]

NOAA Investigating Fishing Net Snagged on USS Monitor NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement is working with the National Marine Sanctuary Program to investigate the origin of a trawl fishing net found snagged on the remains of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. The net was discovered by Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists during an […]

Public Hearings Scheduled for Plan to Reduce Ship Strikes of North Atlantic Right Whales; Comment Period Extended Until September 15 On June 1, NOAA Fisheries published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to alert the public about a proposed strategy to reduce mortalities of North Atlantic right whales that result from vessel collisions. Copies […]

Zero Mortality Rate Goal for Marine Mammal Protection To implement the Zero Mortality Rate Goal (ZMRG) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, NOAA Fisheries has defined an “insignificance threshold” as the upper limit of mortality and serious injury to a stock of marine mammals incidental to commercial fisheries considered to be insignificant levels approaching a […]

RESEARCHERS PLAN AUGUST HUNT FOR INVASIVE LIONFISH OFF CAROLINA COAST July 16, 2004 — NOAA scientists will lead a diving expedition off the North Carolina coast August 2-20 to learn more about a venomous predatory fish whose population appears to be growing in waters along Florida, North Carolina and Bermuda. The Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans, […]