SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREAPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following changes in shellfish harvesting areas will take effect at sunrise, Thursday, November 30, 2006.A portion of Bogue Sound in Carteret County and […]
Coast Guard tests new law enforcement tool PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is testing the application of a new non-lethal law enforcement tool. The Acoustic Hailing Device (AHD) test will be held aboard the USCGC Cochito at Coast Guard Station Little Creek tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. The AHD is a high powered, long-rang hailing […]
Coast Guard Assists Boaters 50-miles off North Carolina Coast Portsmouth, Va. – Three North Carolina boaters were towed safely to the Oregon Inlet, N.C., boat ramp early this morning after reporting their 24-foot pleasure craft was experiencing engine problems. The boaters contacted a nearby Coast Guard C-130 from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., via VHF […]
NEW DATA SHOW DOWNWARD TREND IN ARCTIC SEA ICE The extent of Arctic Sea ice has experienced a steady declining trend during the past 33 years, based on a new comprehensive analysis of satellite data by experts at the U.S. National Ice Center, a tri-agency team from NOAA, the U.S. Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard, […]
NOAA RECOMMENDS NEW EAST COAST SHIP TRAFFIC ROUTES TO REDUCE COLLISIONS WITH ENDANGERED WHALES Nov. 21, 2006  NOAA has urged ship captains to use new recommended routes when entering or leaving the Florida ports of Jacksonville and Fernandina, and Brunswick, Ga., as well as in Cape Cod Bay off Massachusetts. These new routes are […]
Daily Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (BFT) Retention Limit 1. NMFS Extends Three-Fish General Category Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Daily Retention Limit Through December and Waives December Restricted Fishing Days The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) adjusts the daily Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) retention limit for vessels fishing under the General category quota for the 2006 fishing year […]
U.S. Protests Japan’s Announced Return to Whaling in the Antarctic The United States government has expressed deep regrets that Japan’s whaling fleet departed on November 15, 2006 to continue a controversial hunt for research purposes in the Antarctic. Japan has announced that it will kill up to 935 minke whales and ten fin whales under […]
COAST GUARD ENFORCEMENT STEPS UP DURING PEAK STRIPED BASS FISHING PERIODS PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is stepping up enforcement of federal regulations during Atlantic striped bass fishing season. Federal regulations do not permit striped bass fishing outside waters three nautical miles from land. Striped bass fishing is permitted inside state waters, or within […]
COAST GUARD SEARCHES FOR WINDSURFER OFF VA. BEACH PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard continued searching today for a windsurfer who was reported missing off Virginia Beach Thursday. The 39-year-old man put in at 48th Street about noon and did not return. The Coast Guard received the overdue report from Virginia Beach police at 11:44 […]
Gillnet Fishing During the Right Whale Calving Season This is a notice that NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published in the Federal Register on November 15, 2006, two rules addressing gillnet fishing in the Southeast U.S. during the right whale calving season: a proposed rule, consisting of permanent measures, and an emergency rule, consisting […]
