COAST GUARD SAVES GROUNDED FISHING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Station Point Allerton 47-foot motor life boat crew dewatered and towed the grounded fishing vessel Guardian from Grave’s Light to safety at Boston’s Fish Pier today. Coast Guard Sector Boston received a report that the 71-foot fishing vessel homeported in Boston, with four crewmembers […]
NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE RELEASES NECROPSY REPORTCause of 2005 Marine Mammal Strandings Unclear March 30, 2006  The NOAA Fisheries Service released necropsy results taken from stranded marine mammals off the coast of North Carolina in January 2005. Despite extensive testing, no single cause of the stranding and death of the marine mammals has been identified. […]
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Amendment 15Scoping Meetings and Comments: April 1 to June 30, 2006 The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) proposes to develop Amendment 15 to its Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass in order to address a wide range of issues relating to the […]
Sea Mullet Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee (AC) The Marine Fisheries Commission Sea Mullet Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee (AC) will convene on Thursday, April 6, 6 p.m. The AC will meet in Room B202, Administration Building, Craven County Community College, New Bern.The committee will receive a presentation on a description of the commercial fishery […]
Bay Scallop FMP Advisory Committee (AC) The Bay Scallop FMP Advisory Committee (AC) will be held on Monday, April 3, at 6 p.m. The AC will meet in Room 305, at the C-MAST Building, located at Carteret Community College, located at 303 College Circle, Morehead City, NC. The committee will review and decide on management […]
SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREAPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that effective at sunrise, Monday, April 3, 2006, the following privately controlled shellfish bottoms as indicated below are closed to the harvest of oysters, clams […]
SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following changes in shellfish harvesting areas will take effect at sunrise, Friday, March 31, 2006.The dredge site in Stumpy Point Bay in […]
Safety Recommendation M-06-5 through -9 The National Transportation Safety Board makes the following safety recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard: Revise regulations to require that passenger capacity for domestic passenger vessels be calculated based on a statistically representative average passenger weight standard that is periodically updated. (M-06-5) Identify a method for determining the maximum safe […]
FLOUNDER – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Saturday, April 1, 2006, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial flounder fishery:I. HARVEST LIMITSA. During the period beginning at 12:01 A.M., Saturday, April 1, 2006 and ending at 6:00 P.M., […]
BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01A.M., Saturday, April 1, 2006, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15.3’N. Latitude):I. SIZE LIMITIt is unlawful to possess black sea […]
