PEELER CRAB TRAWLINGDr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 7:00 A.M., Thursday, March 8, 2007, the following areas WILL OPEN to peeler crab trawling: I. AREA DESCRIPTIONSA. CARTERET COUNTY1. Waters of Core Sound excluding designated nursery and shellfish management areas2. Cedar Island Bay – to the Primary […]
LIGHTERING OPERATIONS BEGIN BALTIMORE – Responders with the Unified Command have launched operations to transfer coal from the cargo ship Montrose to a barge along side it at about 3 p.m. today in the Chesapeake Bay. The 712-foot cargo ship Montrose, carrying 74,215 metric tons of coal, ran aground Wednesday near Sharps Island, Md. A […]
RESPONDERS CONDUCT OPERATIONS TO RE-FLOAT CARGO SHIP MONTROSE BALTIMORE – A Unified Command is scheduled to transfer coal Sunday from the cargo ship Montrose in order to re-float the ship in Chesapeake Bay. The 712-foot cargo ship Montrose, carrying 74,215 metric tons of coal, ran soft aground Wednesday near Sharps Island, Md. The removal process, […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES MARINER WITH BROKEN LEG PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., airlifted an injured crewmember from the motor vessel Barra, 80 miles south of Cape Lookout, N.C., this afternoon. The Coast Guard was notified at approximately 3:45 p.m. today that Manuel Ruiz, a 64-year-old crewmember […]
Unified Command Attampts to Refloat Motor Vessel Montrose BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard Captain of the Port of Baltimore has established a unified command to re-float the Liberian flagged motor vessel Montrose, grounded two-miles North West of Sharp’s Island, in the Chesapeake Bay. The Unified Command is comprised of the Coast Guard, the Maryland Natural […]
SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, 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 closures will take effect immediately:No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or […]
NOAA REQUESTS PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN PLANS TO END OVERFISHINGSuggestions Will Be Taken at Meeting on Jekyll Island, Ga.The U.S. Congress and President Bush recently directed the nation’s fishery managers to end overfishing by 2010. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will host an open meeting in Georgia to give citizens in the southeastern United States […]
Sea Mullet Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee The Marine Fisheries Commission Sea Mullet Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee (AC) will convene on Thursday, March 15, at 6 p.m. (agenda attached). The AC will meet in the main conference room, DENR Washington Regional Office Building, Washington, North Carolina.The committee will receive a presentation on the Bycatch […]
STRIPED BASS SEASON – OCEAN TRAWL: ATLANTIC OCEANDr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Friday, March 2, 2007, the season for the harvest of striped bass with ocean trawls in the Atlantic Ocean waters of North Carolina SHALL OPEN. The following restrictions will apply:I. SIZE […]
BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANDr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Friday, March 2, 2007, 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 […]
