STRIPED BASS RECREATIONAL SEASON – ALBEMARLE SOUND MANAGEMENT AREA LOCATION Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Thursday, December 2, 2004 the season for striped bass taken for a recreational purpose in the Albemarle Sound Management Area will change with the following restrictions: I. AREA DESCRIPTION: […]
Army Corp Dredging Project Underway CAROLINA BEACH – Last week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began a two-month project of dredging of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and Carolina Beach Inlet.Cottrell Engineering Corp., the Virginia based dredging company hired by the Army Corp of Engineers, are pumping sand and mud from the bottom of the […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES CLAMMER IN DISTRESS CHINCOTEAGUE, VA – A Coast Guard Station Chincoteague boat crew rescued a clam fisherman after his boat sunk today near Chincoteague Island. Shortly after 8 a.m., the fishing vessel Carpe Diem radioed the Coast Guard while returning from a fishing trip to report a fisherman stranded in the marsh […]
NOAA AND PARTNERS REACH OCEAN OBSERVING MILESTONE WITH 1,500 OPERATIONAL ARGO FLOATSDevices Are a Key Element of Global Ocean Observing System NOAA and its partners announced that 1,500 free floating, data collecting devices are now in operation in the world’s oceans, reaching the half-way point of an eventual fleet of 3,000 floats. The devices, named […]
NOAA ISSUES NEW PARTNERSHIP POLICYResponse to “Fair Weather” Recommendations Strengthens Relationships Among Government, Universities and the Private Sector Dec. 1, 2004  NOAA announced today it is adopting a new policy to strengthen the partnership among government, academia and the private sector that provides the nation with high quality environmental information. “NOAA has a broad […]
NOAA PROVIDES WRAP-UP ON VERY ACTIVE 2004 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON Nov. 30, 2004  The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was one for the record books, say NOAA hurricane and climate prediction specialists. Nine named storms affected the United States during the six-month hurricane seasonâ€â€ÂÂÂthree as tropical storms (Bonnie, Hermine and Matthew) and six as hurricanes […]
General and Angling Categories Will Not Open Until Further Notice The General Category and Angling Category bluefin tuna fisheries will NOT open on December 1. No further information regarding the season will be available prior to Friday, December 3. Please check back again on December 3 for possible further developments. General and Angling Categories Will […]
Search suspended for missing Coast Guardsman CHARLESTON, S.C. – The multi-agency search for a missing Coast Guardsman in the Savannah River was suspended at 9 p.m. tonight. Petty Officer 2nd Class Dallas Scott, 29, from Burlington, Iowa, is a damage controlman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin, a 378-foot cutter homeported in Charleston. Scott was […]
Aquarius Aquanauts Study Chemical Warfare on Coral Reefs to Reveal Secrets of Seaweed and Fish Ecology Key Largo, Florida – The last Aquarius undersea laboratory science mission of 2004 will study how reef plants and corals use chemical defenses to ward off predators. The six-person crew is led by Deron Burkepile, Georgia Institute of Technology. […]
Greensboro, NC NDGPS Site Declared Operational On 10 November, the U.S. Coast Guard declared the NDGPS site located in Greensboro, NC “Operational”. Completion of this site marks a significant milestone in the three years cooperative effort between the State of North Carolina (Office of the Governor, NC DOT, NC Geodetic Survey, and NC A&T State […]
