The Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery Remains Open Persons aboard Angling and Charter/headboat vessels fishing recreationally may retain 1 bluefin tuna per vessel per day/trip, measuring 47 inches to less than 73 inches. All bluefin landed MUST be reported within 24 hours of landing to the www.nmfspermits.com website or by calling 888-872-8862 or, if landed […]
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board Approves Draft Addendum XVIII for Public Comment (Revises January 24, 2006 Release with the inclusion of information on the North Carolina public hearing) Washington, DC – The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Board has approved Draft Addendum XVIII to the Summer Flounder Fishery […]
NOAA ANNOUNCES EXPANDED CORAL WARNING SYSTEMMeets International Partnership Goal of President’s Ocean Action Plan NOAA today announced that it will expand regional coverage for the NOAA Coral Reef Watch Satellite Bleaching Alert monitoring system from six Caribbean sites to a total of 24 sites throughout the U.S. and international Caribbean. This is one of President […]
NOAA SAYS LA NIÑA HERE AS PREDICTEDExpect Northwest Storminess and More Drought in South/Southwest Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center announced the official return of La Niña. Agency forecasters predicted La Niña was forming nearly three weeks ago. Oceanic sea surface temperatures have met the operational definition of La Niña for […]
NOAA ANNOUNCES FORECASTS OF ENTIRE ATLANTIC BASINNew System Gives Unprecedented Forecasts of Earth’s Second Largest Ocean NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center, Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, has implemented a new revolutionary Real-Time Ocean Forecast System that will provide mariners with “nowcasts” and five-day forecasts for the entire North Atlantic Ocean. The Real-Time Ocean Forecast System generates […]
GENERAL CATEGORY ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA FISHERY CLOSURE REMINDER The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has determined via the implementing regulations for the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS), located at 50 CFR § 635.27, that the 2005 General category Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) season (June 1, 2005 – January 31, 2006) will close on January 31, […]
NOAA REPORTS 2005 GLOBAL TEMPERATURE SIMILAR TO 1998 RECORD WARM YEAR Scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., today said the 2005 global temperature was statistically indistinguishable from the standing record set in 1998. Using two global data sets developed at NCDC, scientists determined that the 2005 average temperature was part of […]
ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board Approves Draft Addendum XVIII for Public CommentThe Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Boardhas approved Draft Addendum XVIII to the Summer Flounder Fishery ManagementPlan for public comment and review. The Draft Addendum proposes to alterthe summer flounder recreational specification process in 2006 only. […]
NC Navy sonar range–public comment deadline TODAY (Jan. 30)You may have heard about this, and even if you don’t fish this far north, I hope you’ll help. It could have wide-ranging effects even out your way.The United States Navy is proposing to put an offshore underwater sonar training range 47 miles off the coast of […]
NEW NOAA EXHIBIT CELEBRATES NEARLY 200 YEARS OF SCIENCE AND SERVICE Artifacts representing nearly 200 years of science, service and stewardship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its ancestor agencies will be on public display at the agency’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., February 6-11, 2006 during the second annual NOAA Heritage Week. […]
