Category: SC

NOAA HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY PRIORITIES FOR 2004 NOW AVAILABLEUpdated Charting Data Promotes Safe Navigation NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today announced the release of the NOAA Hydrographic Survey Priorities (NHSP) for 2004. The NHSP identifies and prioritizes navigationally significant areas within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and U.S. territorial waters. Created by NOAA’s […]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Wilmington District, Corps of Engineers NOTICE This notice from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, Operations Division, serves as notification to all interested parties of proposed upcoming maintenance dredging, subject to the availability of funds, within the Federally maintained waterways of North Carolina. Additional details of and specific […]

NOAA Fisheries Proposes Initial BFT Quotas and Effort Controls for 2005 Based on the 2002 quota recommended for the United States by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic tunas (ICCAT), 2004 fishing year underharvests/overharvests, and the unused portion of the dead discard allowance, NOAA Fisheries proposes for the 2005 fishing year the quotas […]

FAO’s Committee on Fisheries Adopts Guidelines for “Ecolabelling” of Marine Fish  As reported in a press release from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), efforts to ensure the sustainability of the world’s marine fisheries got a boost earlier this month when the FAO Committee on Fisheries adopted a set of voluntary guidelines for […]

NOAA and Partners Launch Project to Restore Native Oysters in the Great Wicomico River  On March 10, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office took part in launching a project that will seed 15 million disease-tolerant broodstock native oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the Great Wicomico River. Over-harvesting, degraded water quality and disease have reduced the population of […]

Management Measures Proposed for 2005 Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Recreational Fisheries  NOAA Fisheries Service has published a proposed rule with recreational measures for the 2005 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries. The intent of these measures is to prevent overfishing. Total recreational landings of summer flounder for 2004 were an […]

Final Measures Issued for the 2005 Bluefish Fishery  NOAA Fisheries Service has published a final rule, including state-by-state commercial quotas, a recreational harvest limit, and recreational possession limits for bluefish off the east coast of the United States. This rule establishes allowable 2005 harvest levels and possession limits to attain the target fishing mortality rate […]

Fish and Wildlife Service proposes American crocodile in Florida to be downlisted from endangered to threatenedOne of America’s rarest reptiles, the American crocodile, has so improvedthat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to reclassify it from“endangered” to the less-dire status of “threatened” in its Florida range.Annual monitoring of the crocodile’s distinct population segment […]