Category: MS

NOAA SAYS LA NIÑA HERE AS PREDICTEDExpect Northwest Storminess and More Drought in South/Southwest Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center announced the official return of La Niña. Agency forecasters predicted La Niña was forming nearly three weeks ago. Oceanic sea surface temperatures have met the operational definition of La Niña for […]

NOAA ANNOUNCES FORECASTS OF ENTIRE ATLANTIC BASINNew System Gives Unprecedented Forecasts of Earth’s Second Largest Ocean NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center, Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, has implemented a new revolutionary Real-Time Ocean Forecast System that will provide mariners with “nowcasts” and five-day forecasts for the entire North Atlantic Ocean. The Real-Time Ocean Forecast System generates […]

GENERAL CATEGORY ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA FISHERY CLOSURE REMINDER The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has determined via the implementing regulations for the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS), located at 50 CFR § 635.27, that the 2005 General category Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) season (June 1, 2005 – January 31, 2006) will close on January 31, […]

NOAA REPORTS 2005 GLOBAL TEMPERATURE SIMILAR TO 1998 RECORD WARM YEAR Scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., today said the 2005 global temperature was statistically indistinguishable from the standing record set in 1998. Using two global data sets developed at NCDC, scientists determined that the 2005 average temperature was part of […]

NC Navy sonar range–public comment deadline TODAY (Jan. 30)You may have heard about this, and even if you don’t fish this far north, I hope you’ll help. It could have wide-ranging effects even out your way.The United States Navy is proposing to put an offshore underwater sonar training range 47 miles off the coast of […]

NEW NOAA EXHIBIT CELEBRATES NEARLY 200 YEARS OF SCIENCE AND SERVICE Artifacts representing nearly 200 years of science, service and stewardship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its ancestor agencies will be on public display at the agency’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., February 6-11, 2006 during the second annual NOAA Heritage Week. […]

2005 COOK INLET BELUGA WHALE POPULATION ESTIMATE COMPLETED NOAA Fisheries Service biologists have completed analysis of data from an aerial survey of beluga whales in Cook Inlet near Anchorage, Alaska. The latest abundance estimate is 278 individual belugas whales in Cook Inlet. “Although this point estimate is lower than those estimates derived from similar surveys […]

UNDERSEA TECHNOLOGIES HELP NOAA “GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS” The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface and much of it remains unexplored. Over the past few decades, technology has enabled humans to explore more of this underwater realm. Since NOAA’s mission is “to understand and predict changes in the Earth’s […]

Request that NMFS immediately extend the Winter Bluefin Fishery January 16, 2006 Dr. Bill Hogarth>br>Assistant Administrator for FisheriesNational Marine Fisheries Service1315 East West Highway, Room 14555Silver Spring, MD 20910(sent via fax and mail) Dear Bill:We appreciate the previous NMFS action to lift the RFDs for the past two weekends. Unfortunately the combination of gale force […]

Commercial Landings of Bluefin tuna As of 01/23/06 fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coast wide General category has landed 230.8 mt out of 708.3 mt to date. The Harpoon category closed at: 23.1 mt out of 90.0 mt. Longline North: 22.5 mt out of 116.3 mt to date. Longline […]