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Time’s Right To Go Shad Fishing RALEIGH, N.C. (March 28, 2005) — Shad fishing is picking up in North Carolina’s various coastal rivers — the Cashie, Tar, Roanoke, Neuse and Cape Fear, among others. Spinning rod enthusiasts are casting shad rigs with a spoon-and-shad dart combination, two-inch curly tail grubs in white or chartreuse on […]

NOAA Fisheries Proposes Initial BFT Quotas and Effort Controls for 2005

NOAA Fisheries Proposes Initial BFT Quotas and Effort Controls for 2005 Based on the 2002 quota recommended for the United States by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic tunas (ICCAT), 2004 fishing year underharvests/overharvests, and the unused portion of the dead discard allowance, NOAA Fisheries proposes for the 2005 fishing year the quotas […]

Coalition Maritime Forces Intercept Hijacked Vessel

Coalition Maritime Forces Intercept Hijacked Vessel USCGC MUNRO, At Sea (NNS) — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Munro (WHEC 724), working with British ships HMS Invincible (R05) and HMS Nottingham (D91) in the Gulf of Aden, intercepted a hijacked Thai fishing vessel at around noon March 17.Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (COMUSNAVCENT) received telephone […]

FAO’s Committee on Fisheries Adopts Guidelines for “Ecolabelling” of Marine Fish

FAO’s Committee on Fisheries Adopts Guidelines for “Ecolabelling” of Marine Fish  As reported in a press release from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), efforts to ensure the sustainability of the world’s marine fisheries got a boost earlier this month when the FAO Committee on Fisheries adopted a set of voluntary guidelines for […]

NOAA and Partners Launch Project to Restore Native Oysters in the Great Wicomico

NOAA and Partners Launch Project to Restore Native Oysters in the Great Wicomico River  On March 10, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office took part in launching a project that will seed 15 million disease-tolerant broodstock native oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the Great Wicomico River. Over-harvesting, degraded water quality and disease have reduced the population of […]

Management Measures Proposed for 2005 Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass R

Management Measures Proposed for 2005 Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Recreational Fisheries  NOAA Fisheries Service has published a proposed rule with recreational measures for the 2005 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries. The intent of these measures is to prevent overfishing. Total recreational landings of summer flounder for 2004 were an […]

Final Measures Issued for the 2005 Bluefish Fishery

Final Measures Issued for the 2005 Bluefish Fishery  NOAA Fisheries Service has published a final rule, including state-by-state commercial quotas, a recreational harvest limit, and recreational possession limits for bluefish off the east coast of the United States. This rule establishes allowable 2005 harvest levels and possession limits to attain the target fishing mortality rate […]

NEW FLOUNDER RULES TO GO INTO EFFECT APRIL 1

NEW FLOUNDER RULES TO GO INTO EFFECT APRIL 1MOREHEAD CITY – Both recreational and commercial fishermen need to be aware that new catch and gear limits for southern flounder are going into effect April 1.The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission approved the conservation measures as part of the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan – a […]

CRAB POT AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR STATE

CRAB POT AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR STATEMOREHEAD CITY – The great crab pot auction is underway! State Surplus is accepting sealed bids for abandoned crabs pots collected earlier this year by the North Carolina Marine Patrol. Money from the sale of these pots will go into the N.C. General Fund.Each year, fishermen are required […]

Fish and Wildlife Service proposes American crocodile in Florida to be downliste

Fish and Wildlife Service proposes American crocodile in Florida to be downlisted from endangered to threatenedOne of America’s rarest reptiles, the American crocodile, has so improvedthat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to reclassify it from“endangered” to the less-dire status of “threatened” in its Florida range.Annual monitoring of the crocodile’s distinct population segment […]