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., Tuesday, January 31, 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 […]

BLACK SEA BASS â€ââââ

BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01A.M., Tuesday, January 31, 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 […]

FLOUNDER â€ââ‚Â

FLOUNDER – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Tuesday, January 31, 2006, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial flounder fishery:I. HARVEST LIMITSDuring the period beginning at 12:01 A.M., Tuesday, January 31, 2006 and ending at 6:00 P.M., Tuesday, […]

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 […]

MULTI AGENCIES TO CONDUCT MOCK RESCUE EXCERSISE

MULTI AGENCIES TO CONDUCT MOCK RESCUE EXCERSISE MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – A multi-agency, multi-commercial vessel mass rescue exercise will be held here Thursday to test a rescue operation plan to respond to an emergency involving one of the area’s high-passenger casino cruise ships. Five separate local, state and federal agencies and five more local commercial […]

NOAA SEEKS COMMENT ON PROPOSED AUTHORIZATION FOR THE HARASSMENT OF MARINE MAMMAL

NOAA SEEKS COMMENT ON PROPOSED AUTHORIZATION FOR THE HARASSMENT OF MARINE MAMMALS NOAA Fisheries Service is seeking comments now through Feb. 22, 2006, on a proposal from the U.S. Air Force to conduct air-to-surface gunnery exercises in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. The exercises conducted from Eglin Air Force Base may […]

NOAA SATELLITES PLAY KEY ROLE IN 222 RESCUES IN 2005

NOAA SATELLITES PLAY KEY ROLE IN 222 RESCUES IN 2005More Beacons Registered During the Year NOAA satellites helped save 222 people throughout the United States and its surrounding waters from potentially life-threatening emergencies in 2005. NOAA’s polar and geostationary satellites, along with Russia’s Cospas spacecraft, are part of the sophisticated, international Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided […]

CRAB, EEL, FISH AND SHRIMP POTS

CRAB, EEL, FISH AND SHRIMP POTS Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that the closed pot season will reopen effective at 8:00 A.M. on Thursday, January 26, 2006 in the following area only:I. AREA DESCRIPTIONAll waters and their tributaries running north and east from the bridge over Bogue Sound from […]

New Bycatch Report Available

New Bycatch Report Available A new report from NOAA Fisheries Service presents an analysis of bycatch reduction efforts and discusses the appropriateness of seeking international agreements to establish comparable measures. The report reviews all 2005 fishery management actions for fish stocks that are also harvested by foreign fleets. Bycatch standards and measures are described for […]

2006 Harvest Levels Proposed for Sardines

2006 Harvest Levels Proposed for Sardines NOAA Fisheries Service has proposed the annual harvest guidelines for Pacific sardine in the U.S. exclusive economic zone for the fishing season of January 1, 2006, through December 31, 2006. Based on a biomass estimate of 1,061,391 metric tons (mt), the 2006 harvest guideline for Pacific sardine is 118,937 […]