Category: NC

STRIPED BASS SEASON â€âÃ

STRIPED BASS SEASON – OCEAN TRAWL: ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Saturday, April 1, 2006, the season for the harvest of striped bass with ocean trawls in the Atlantic Ocean waters of North Carolina WILL OPEN. The following restrictions will apply:I. SIZE LIMITNo person […]

SCUP

SCUPPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 A.M., Saturday, April 1, 2006, the following restrictions will apply to the commercial scup fishery in coastal waters including the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15′ N. Latitude):I. SIZE AND HARVEST LIMITSA. No person may take, possess, buy, […]

Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Amendment 15 Scoping Meetings and Comm

Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Amendment 15 Scoping Meetings and Comments: April 1 to June 30, 2006The 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 […]

FISHERIES HEARING FOCUSES ON SHRIMP AND MULLET

FISHERIES HEARING FOCUSES ON SHRIMP AND MULLET MOREHEAD CITY – The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a hearing on April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Regional Office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 943 Washington Square Mall, in Washington, N.C. Public input is needed on the following proposed shrimp rules, which […]

SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA

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 shellfish area temporary closure will take effect immediately:No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or […]

Notice of Integrated Registration Program

Notice of Integrated Registration Program NOAA Fisheries Service is increasing the number of fisheries for which the Marine Mammal Authorization Program (MMAP) registration is integrated with existing state and Federal fishery licensing and permitting programs. MMAP registration will be integrated for state fisheries permitted through the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, […]

STRIPED BASS SEASON – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS

STRIPED BASS SEASON – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS INTERNAL COASTAL WATERS OF CARTERET, CRAVEN, BEAUFORT, AND PAMLICO COUNTIES, PUNGO RIVER, WEST BAY AND PAMLICO SOUNDPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 P.M., Friday, March 31, 2006, the striped bass season WILL CLOSE in the areas described below for […]

COAST GUARD TO BEGIN REMOVAL OF BUOYS IN OLD TOPSAIL CREEK, N.C.

COAST GUARD TO BEGIN REMOVAL OF BUOYS IN OLD TOPSAIL CREEK, N.C. PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Due to heavy shoaling, all of the navigational buoys in Old Topsail Creek are scheduled for removal by the Coast Guard this week. Water depths in this North Carolina inlet have become too shallow and dynamic for Coast Guard buoy […]

COAST GUARD AIDES SHIPWRECKED MAINE FISHERMAN

COAST GUARD AIDES SHIPWRECKED MAINE FISHERMAN BOSTON – Crews from Station Chatham and Air Station Cape Cod searched today for two Maine fisherman who jumped overboard after their fishing trawler ran aground at Nauset Beach, Mass., and started taking on water. Ian Orchard and Micheal Darragh, both from Orland, Maine, abandoned the 39-foot scalloper, JOSEPHINE, […]

STRIPED BASS RECREATIONAL SEASON – ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREA

STRIPED BASS RECREATIONAL SEASON – ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREAPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:01 P.M., Monday, April 17, 2006 the season for striped bass taken for recreational purposes in the Albemarle Sound Management Area will open with the following restrictions:I. AREA DESCRIPTION: The Albemarle Sound Management […]