Public Hearings Scheduled for Plan to Reduce Ship Strikes of North Atlantic Right Whales; Comment Period Extended Until September 15 On June 1, NOAA Fisheries published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to alert the public about a proposed strategy to reduce mortalities of North Atlantic right whales that result from vessel collisions. Copies […]
Zero Mortality Rate Goal for Marine Mammal Protection To implement the Zero Mortality Rate Goal (ZMRG) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, NOAA Fisheries has defined an “insignificance threshold” as the upper limit of mortality and serious injury to a stock of marine mammals incidental to commercial fisheries considered to be insignificant levels approaching a […]
RESEARCHERS PLAN AUGUST HUNT FOR INVASIVE LIONFISH OFF CAROLINA COAST July 16, 2004  NOAA scientists will lead a diving expedition off the North Carolina coast August 2-20 to learn more about a venomous predatory fish whose population appears to be growing in waters along Florida, North Carolina and Bermuda. The Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans, […]
STUDY DETAILS DISTRIBUTION, IMPACTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE WORLD OCEANS July 15, 2004  An international team of scientists has completed the first comprehensive study of the ocean storage of carbon dioxide derived from human activity based on a decade-long survey of global ocean carbon distributions in the 1990s. The global survey combined measurements […]
NOAA SATELLITES HELP SAVE 54 LIVES DURING SPRING 2004 July 15, 2004  NOAA satellites, capturing distress signals from land, sea and air, were key in saving 54 lives in 27 potentially deadly situations throughout the United States from April to June. For the year, NOAA satellites have helped rescue 114 lives. By comparison, this […]
Jim Gale New Head of Law Enforcement for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southeast RegionJim Gale, a 12?year veteran of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, isthe new Special Agent in Charge of Law Enforcement in the Service’sSoutheast Region. Formerly the Special Agent in Charge of the Service’sDivision of Law Enforcement Operations in Washington, D.C., […]
Dallas Harris Construction to discharge fill material Dallas Harris Construction to discharge fill material into 0.78 acres of Section 404 wetlands and waters adjacent and hydrologically connected to an unnamed tributary to Howe Creek, a tributary to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, associated with the construction of the Covil Crossing Residential Subdivision, located at the northern […]
NOAA MISSISSIPPI OFFICES PROVIDE EARLY LOOK AT GULF OF MEXICO ‘DEAD ZONE’ July 13, 2004  NOAA’s offices in Mississippi have formed a partnership to provide near-real-time data about dissolved oxygen from the seasonal hypoxic area, or “Dead Zone,” in the Gulf of Mexico. Hypoxia occurs when the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water […]
Pete Benjamin New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Field Supervisor in Raleigh, North Carolina Pete Benjamin, a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService, is the new Field Supervisor of the Service’s Ecological ServicesField Office in Raleigh, North Carolina. Formerly Assistant FieldSupervisor of the Jacksonville, Florida Ecological Services office,Benjamin began his new duties on July 12. […]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Withdraws Federal Designation of Two Manatee Refuges The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced its decision to withdraw its Federal designation at two manatee refuges in Florida: the Pansy Bayou Manatee Refuge in Sarasota County and the Cocoa Beach Manatee Refuge in Brevard County. Service officials pointed out that […]
