Follow-up on Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council met in Alexandria, Virginia last week to consider a number of issues. The Council’s Demersal Committee met with the ASMFC’s Board to consider the alternatives that will be included in Framework 5 to the Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fishery […]
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS You Can Download it complete HERE FIFTH COAST GUARD DISTRICT WATERS – INCREASED THREAT LEVEL The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for assistance from all mariners to be on the lookout while they are transiting the local waterways. The Department of Homeland Security and Coast Guard are asking you report any […]
NOAA Fisheries Developing Rule to Clarify 250 Atlantic Marlin Landing Limit We all know that Atlantic blue and white marlin populations are at very low levels, and all fishing nations need to do more to reverse those trends. The U.S. has been a leader in this endeavor, but we cannot affect this change unilaterally. These […]
NOAA FISHERIES REMINDS BOATERS: GIVE RIGHT WHALES WIDE BERTHFederal Law Prohibits Approaching Endangered Right Whales Within 500 Yards The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) reminds all whale watchers, commercial vessels and others to give endangered right whales a wide berth, as mandated by Federal Rule 62 FR 6729, 50 […]
COAST GUARD SAVES FIVE AFTER VESSEL SINKS PORTSMOUTH, Va., – The Coast Guard rescued five men after their vessel started taking on water 25 miles east of Chincoteague, Va., today. The operator, Clifton Ewell of Yorktown, Va., and his crew, Thomas Laney III of Newport News, Va., Martin Casados of Newport News, Va., Jose Medellin […]
ASMFC Approves Scup Addendum XI Northern States to Reduce Recreational Landings by 57% Alexandria, VA – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission approved Addendum XI to the Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP). Addendum XI addresses the 2004 scup recreational fishery, establishing regional regulations. A prior addendum addressed the 2003 […]
HIGH-SCHOOLERS ASSIST COAST GUARD RESCUE MIAMI – The crew of a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft from Air Station Clearwater, Fla., searched for, and successfully located a person in the water this morning north of the Bahamas after he had been treading water for possibly 21 hours. The Polish container vessel, Pilica, was motoring eastbound […]
NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM NAMES NEW LEGAL DIRECTOR The National Sea Grant College Program has named Stephanie Showalter of the University of Mississippi Law School as the new director of the Mississippi-Alabama Legal Program and the National Sea Grant Law Center. Sea Grant is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and […]
Coast Guard Crews Break The Ice PORTSMOUTH, Va.– The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Chock motored their way through the ice-covered Tangier Sound Wednesday afternoon, bringing much needed supplies to a community cut off by the cold. The 65-foot buoy tender Chock, homeported in Portsmouth, Va., arrived at Tangier Island, Va., around 3 p.m. […]
SURVEY RESULTS GIVE HIGH MARKS TO NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Results from a recent national survey of products issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service indicate that there is a high level of satisfaction among customers using weather information. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The […]
