NOAA Fisheries Asks the National Academy of Sciences to Study Seafood Benefits and Risks NOAA Fisheries has contracted with the National Academy of Sciences to recommend approaches to decision-making in selecting seafood. The study objectives include: 1. Estimating current levels of exposure to naturally-occurring and introduced toxicants in seafood; 2. Assessing the availability of specific […]
NOAA Defines Criteria for Marine Managed Areas NOAA has published a final notice that defines the criteria for Marine Managed Areas and responds to public comments that were submitted on the draft criteria. The criteria for Marine Managed Areas were developed in response to Executive Order 13158 of 2000 on Marine Protected Areas. A key […]
New Inlet Surveys Added Bogue Inlet 01-12-05 Carolina Beach Inlet 01-26-05 Topsail Beach Inlet 01-20-05 OREGON INLET BAR 01-26-05 New Inlet Surveys Added Bogue Inlet 01-12-05 Carolina Beach Inlet 01-26-05 Topsail Beach Inlet 01-20-05 OREGON INLET BAR 01-26-05
Research Ship Suffers Heavy Weather Damage COAST GUARD ISLAND, ALAMEDA, Calif. – Coast Guard units are enroute to the disabled 591-foot Motor Vessel Explorer with 990 people aboard that is in 35-foot seas and winds gusting above 50 miles per hour approximately 650 miles south of Adak, Alaska. This ship was disabled after a reported […]
NOAA SEEKS EXPERTS TO REVIEW AGENCY’S ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH AND SCIENCE ENTERPRISE The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks a team of experts to review its mix of scientific activities and organization of its ecosystem research and science. The review team will recommend steps to meet the needs of NOAA’s mandate to effectively assess and monitor […]
2003 Recreational Boating Statistics U.S. Coast Guard statistics released this week indicate 86 percent of all boaters who drowned in 2003 were not wearing life jackets. In addition, alcohol involvement was a contributing factor in approximately one third of all reported recreational boating fatalities. More than 95 percent of boat owners report having enough life […]
BUOYS TO BE REMOVED IN HEAVILY SHOALED NORTH CAROLINA INLETS ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. – The Coast Guard will remove navigational buoys from some North Carolina ocean inlets beginning Jan. 24 where water depths have become too shallow for Coast Guard buoy tenders to operate. The movement of sand and other sediment in Lockwood’s Folly, New […]
Coast Guard Cutter Shamal recovered more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana CARIBBEAN SEA (Jan. 21, 2005)–Crewmen from the Coast Guard Cutter Shamal recovered more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana a day after stopping the go-fast smuggling boat is believed to have been jettisoned from. The six suspected smugglers were tranferred to authorities from the Dominican […]
NOAA Reports Heightened Space Weather For the past five days, forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center (SEC) in Boulder , Colo. , have observed all types of space weather: radio blackouts, solar radiation storms, and geomagnetic storms. Currently, space weather forecasters are observing a moderate (G-2) geomagnetic storm and a minor (S-1) solar radiation […]
VT HALTER MARINE TO BUILD A THIRD FISHERIES SURVEY VESSEL FOR NOAA VT Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc., announced that it will build another Fisheries Survey Vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA exercised its option for the third of four planned vessels under an existing contract. This […]
