NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UNVEILS NEW PRECIPITATION WEB PAGE High-quality precipitation analyses used for flood forecasts, drought monitoring and climate trends are being made available on the NOAA National Weather Service Web site on a trial basis through June 2006. During this time, comments regarding the service will be collected to determine whether it effectively […]
NOAA SATELLITES HELP KEEP COMPETITIVE SAILORS SAFE The international Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking System (COSPAS-SARSAT) is giving an extra measure of safety for sailors competing in the worldwide Volvo Ocean Race. The SARSAT program is providing life-saving, alert capabilities for 21 emergency beacons, which were purchased by race organizers to use in the race. […]
MARINE PATROL CUTS SHORT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY MOREHEAD CITY – Fishermen from Carteret and Pamlico counties have been charged with illegally harvesting fish and shellfish.On December 7, the North Carolina Marine Patrol charged Rodney Salter, 34, Ron Sparks, 35, and Bobby Martin, Jr., 47, of Carteret County with illegally harvesting striped bass near Drum Inlet. Fifteen […]
FOUR RECORD-BREAKING FISH LANDED IN 2005 MOREHEAD CITY – It’s been a year for the record books for anglers in North Carolina, with four record-breaking saltwater fish being brought to the docks. On July 23, 2005, Derek Williams of Tampa, FL, caught a world record 21-pound, 6 ounce hogfish snapper off of Frying Pan Shoals. […]
RECYCLING PROGRAM GETS EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT MOREHEAD CITY – Two Marine Fisheries Commission members from Brunswick County, Rusty Russ and David Beresoff, are playing Santa Claus for the N.C. Oyster Shell Recycling Program. Russ, who hails from Ocean Isle and holds a recreational seat on the commission, donated a recycling trailer to the program. He […]
BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01A.M., Sunday, January 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 […]
SCUPPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Sunday, January 1, 2006, the following restrictions will apply to the commercial scup fishery in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15′ N. Latitude):I. SIZE AND HARVEST LIMITSA. No person may take, possess, buy, sell or offer […]
FLOUNDER – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Sunday, January 1, 2006, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial flounder fishery:I. HARVEST LIMITSA. During the period beginning at 12:01 A.M., Sunday, January 1, 2006 and ending at 6:00 P.M., […]
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, December 30, 2005.All those waters in Pender and Onslow Counties […]
Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Shellfish Advisory Committee The next meeting of the Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) Shellfish Advisory Committee will be held Monday, January 9 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held in room 306 of the CMAST Building at Carteret Community College, located at 303 College Circle in Morehead City, NC. The committee […]
