Category: SC

NOAA Fisheries Announces Workshops on Protected Species Release, Disentanglement

NOAA Fisheries Announces Workshops on Protected Species Release, Disentanglement, and Identification and Atlantic Shark Identification in September NOAA Fisheries will hold free Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops and Protected Species Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshops in September of 2011. Certain fishermen and shark dealers are required to attend a workshop to meet regulatory requirements and […]

NOAA Fisheries releases Endangered Species Act Biennial Report to Congress

NOAA Fisheries releases Endangered Species Act Biennial Report to Congress On August 30, NOAA Fisheries released our Biennial Report to Congress on the Recovery Program for Threatened and Endangered Species. This report summarizes efforts to recover the 64 domestic species under NOAA Fisheries’ jurisdiction from October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2010. It includes accounts […]

U.S., European Union to strengthen cooperation to combat illegal fishing

U.S., European Union to strengthen cooperation to combat illegal fishing September 7, 2011 NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco and Maria Damanaki, European Union commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, will sign a historic statement today pledging bilateral cooperation to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, known as IUU fishing — a first for the longstanding […]

Coast Guard medevacs man from boat Pamlico Sound, NC

Coast Guard medevacs man from boat Pamlico Sound, NC   WILMINGTON, N.C. – The Coast Guard medevaced a 65-year-old man from a fishing vessel approximately 9 miles north of Ocracoke Island, N.C., Wednesday. A crewmember aboard the fishing vessel Micah Belle called Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders at approximately 8 p.m., stating that a […]

Coast Guard medevacs man from boat Pamlico Sound, NC

Coast Guard medevacs man from boat Pamlico Sound, NC   WILMINGTON, N.C. – The Coast Guard medevaced a 65-year-old man from a fishing vessel approximately 9 miles north of Ocracoke Island, N.C., Wednesday. A crewmember aboard the fishing vessel Micah Belle called Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders at approximately 8 p.m., stating that a […]

Dredging to begin near Morehead City, NC

Dredging to begin near Morehead City, NC MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – Mariners may encounter delays as Army Corps of Engineers dredging operations are scheduled to begin at the North Carolina State Port Docks, the Radio Island Barge Docks and the Aviation Fuel Docks in Morehead City from approximately July 10 through Oct. 31. The dredging […]

Good Samaritian rescues 5 off Cape Lookout

Good Samaritian rescues 5 off Cape Lookout FORT MACON, N.C. — Five people were rescued by a good Samaritan 10 miles southwest of Cape Lookout at 10:55 a.m. Friday. The five men were in the water, clinging to their boat for approximately 22-hours before being rescued by Mark Forester aboard his boat, Blucifer. Rescued were […]

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke orders fishery enforcement penalties returned to 1

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced today that $649,527 in fisheries enforcement penalties will be returned to 11 individuals or businesses after an independent review of their cases concluded the NOAA enforcement program had in some instances “overstepped the bounds of propriety and fairness.” In his decision memo issued today, Secretary Locke acted on 30 […]

Coast Guard medevacs 1 from fishing vessel 103 miles east of Cape Lookout, NC

Coast Guard medevacs 1 from fishing vessel 103 miles east of Cape Lookout, NC   PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember off the fishing vessel Alex Marie approximately 103 miles east of Cape Lookout, N.C., Wednesday. At approximately 10:30 a.m. watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s 5th District Command Center received a report […]

The Road to End Overfishing: 35 Years of Magnuson Act

The Road to End Overfishing: 35 Years of Magnuson Act Assistant Administrator for Fisheries Talks about the Cornerstone of Sustainable Fisheries As we look toward Earth Day next week, I want to acknowledge and highlight the 35 th anniversary of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Simply called “the Magnuson Act”, this law, its […]