PA-19-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following shellfish area closure will take effect immediately. No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or […]
PA-20-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: 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, […]
FF-31-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: STRIPED BASS SEASON – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – INTERNAL COASTAL WATERS OF CARTERET, CRAVEN, BEAUFORT, AND PAMLICO COUNTIES, PUNGO RIVER, WEST BAY AND PAMLICO SOUND Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 P.M. Monday, April 5, 2004, the striped bass season WILL CLOSE in […]
FF-32-2004 PROCLAMATION RE: STRIPED BASS SEASON – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREA Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 P.M. Tuesday, April 6, 2004, the striped bass season WILL CLOSE in the area described below for COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS. I. AREA DEION The Albemarle […]
PROCLAMATION RE: GILL NETS – ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREA Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 6, 2004, the following provisions shall apply to the use of gill nets in the ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREA. I. AREA DEION The Albemarle Sound Management Area as […]
South Atlantic – Public Scoping Meetings Scheduled for Mackerel Fishery The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will hold a series of scoping meetings from April 20-29 throughout the Atlantic to solicit public input on options regarding the current moratorium on the issuance of commercial king mackerel permits. The moratorium is scheduled to expire on October […]
Kingfisher is 35 miles offshore 4/2/04: This morning, Kingfisher is 35 miles offshore and is passing outside the entrance to Delaware Bay. See plot. His velocity continued to average just over 2 knots overnight. There is a slight lull in the otherwise very poor weather forecast today – however, conditions are far from favorable for […]
NOAA Fisheries Seeks Public Comment on a Proposed International Trade Permit for Tuna and Swordfish NOAA Fisheries has proposed modifications to its international trade tracking programs. These changes are necessary to implement conservation and management recommendations from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. The proposed rule […]
BARGE HITS MOORED U.S. COAST GUARD SHIPS CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A tug pushing two barges drifted into two U.S. Coast Guard ships at the north side of the Corpus Christi Inner Harbor at 4 p.m. Wednesday. One of the barges struck both the Coast Guard Cutter Mallet, a 75-foot inland construction tender, and the […]
TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM SINKING VESSEL CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. – Two people were rescued from their sinking vessel in the Alligator River, near East Lake, N.C., this afternoon. Rob Ryan and Donald Stapkowitz, both from Easton, Md., contacted Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras at 1:30 p.m. to report their 36-foot pleasure craft Tons of Fun […]
