Operator Permits for the South Atlantic Rock Shrimp and Atlantic Dolphin and Wahoo Fisheries Beginning November 23, 2004, operator permit cards (operator cards) will be required for an operator of a vessel that has, or is required to have, a charter vessel/headboat or commercial vessel permit for Atlantic dolphin-wahoo. Operator cards have been required in […]
SETTLEMENT REACHED IN CASE OF NEGLIGENT PARASAIL OPERATOR TAMPA, Fla. – Representatives from the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office in Tampa will be holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. today at Parasail City in Clearwater Beach, Fla., to discuss the results of an administrative hearing last week between the Coast Guard and Alexander Widmann, […]
COAST GUARD MEDEVACS 10-WEEK-OLD GIRL PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard launched a rescue helicopter today at about 11 a.m. to Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, in an effort to save the life of a seriously ill 10-week-old girl. The girl is at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., but requires immediate treatment from […]
CRANE COLLAPSES CRUSHING BOATS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– A crane collapsed this morning causing damage to two boats and spilling diesel fuel into the water in Brigantine, N.J. The crane has spilled approximately 50 to 100 gallons of diesel fuel into the St. George Thoroughfare after landing on two pleasure crafts that were moored at the […]
NOAA ISSUES SERVICE ASSESSMENT REPORT ON HURRICANE ISABEL Nov. 3  NOAA’s National Weather Service today released an internal evaluation of its operations during Hurricane Isabel. The tropical cyclone caused extensive damage and loss of life in the Mid-Atlantic states in September 2003. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an agency of the […]
Coast Guard boat crew rescues the rescuer JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard boat crew provided a tow for a fishing vessel whose captain rescued two men from the water two miles south of Bold Island in Southeast Alaska Sunday The Coast Guard received a call at about 3:30 p.m. from a crewmember aboard the […]
NOAA OFFERS NEW EXPERIMENTAL IONOSPHERIC PRODUCTS Nov. 1, 2004  The NOAA Space Environment Center and NOAA National Geodetic Survey today release a new experimental ionosphere products to help emergency managers and other users quickly assess the effects of solar storms on Global Positioning System applications. The SEC has created a near real-time ionospheric specification […]
Current Daily General and HMS Charter/Headboat Category Commercial BFT limits The General category daily retention limit is one large medium or giant BFT (73 inches CFL or greater) per vessel per day/trip. This daily retention limit is effective through May 31, 2005, inclusive. This limit applies to permitted Atlantic tunas General and HMS Charter/headboats (while […]
ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of October 29, 2004 fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category has landed 206.5 mt. Harpoon category has landed 29.9 mt. Longline North: 18.0 mt. Longline South: 9.3 mt. Purse seine category 31.9 mt. The Angling category is currently open in all areas […]
Fisheries Administrator Meets with Key Representatives of the Marine Recreational Fisheries Community On Thursday, October 28, Dr. Bill Hogarth, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, briefed key representatives and organizations of the saltwater sportfishing community to discuss important saltwater recreational issues including the striped bass draft environmental impact statement, northwest salmon, recreational data and statistics, marine protected […]
