NOAA In North Carolina I added all of these to the links database-Admin National Weather ServiceWeather Forecast Office Located at the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University, this National Weather Service office provides all the weather and flood warnings, daily forecasts, and meteorologic and hydrologic data for 31 counties, with a population of 2.6 […]
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SCIENTISTS DOUBLE TALLY OF KNOWN RIGHT WHALESScientists Optimistic After Sightings of Critically Endangered Whale The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service announced today in Kodiak, Alaska, that they have located more endangered right whales. Scientists on the NOAA Research Vessel McArthur II nearly doubled the tally of known right whales in the […]
NOAA Announces Top U.S. Fishing Ports for 2003 Commercial fishermen unloaded 900.7 million pounds of fish and shellfish at the port of Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, AK, making it the top port in the United States for landings in 2003. Dutch Harbor-Unalaska netted the top landings slot for the15th consecutive year, although the total fish and shellfish […]
Feds Begin Arrests for Shark Finning On September 7, Cresento Bacaling and Conchito Cagas, Jr., plead guilty to federal violations of the federal natural resource anti-trafficking law, the Lacey Act and the Shark Finning Prohibition Act. This is the first United States arrest, charge and conviction for federal criminal violations of the Lacey Act with […]
RIGHT WHALE SHIP STRIKE STRATEGY MEETING:There will be a Stakeholder meeting on Right Whale Ship Strike Strategy; Advance Notice of Proposed ruelmaking:Morehead City, NCOctober 6, 2004 (Thursday); 1:00 – 3:30pmMorehead City Maritime Bldg;113 Arendell StreetThis meeting between senior agency staff of NMFS and stakeholders will describe a right whale ship strike reduction strategy that considers […]
NOAA AND NASA ANNOUNCE CONTRACT AWARD FOR IMAGING SUITE ABOARD NEXT GENERATION GOES SPACECRAFT SERIES The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA announced that Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Palo Alto, Calif., was awarded a $6 million contract to work on the Solar Imaging Suite for the next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental […]
SEAFOOD CONSUMPTION ROSE AGAIN IN 2003 Sept. 27, 2004  NOAA announced today that Americans ate a record 16.3 pounds of fish and shellfish per person in 2003, up from 15.6 pounds in 2002. Published in its annual report, “Fisheries of the United States,” NOAA has been calculating the nation’s seafood consumption to keep the […]
NOAA Fisheries Adjusts the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Daily Retention Limit General category landings rates have been slow to date in the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery. Based on a review of dealer reports, daily landing trends, and the availability of BFT on the fishing grounds, NOAA Fisheries has determined that an adjustment in the daily […]
NOAA DEDICATES COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENTS TO HONOR THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THE BODIE ISLAND BASELINECeremony to Honor Significant Historic Events in Aviation and Navigation The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will honor the contributions of Wright Brothers, and the recovery and restoration of the Bodie Island, N.C. baseline distance measurement of 1848 (the precise land survey […]
