Category: SFL

 BE CAREFUL JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 45-year-old Jacksonville woman has died from flesh-eating bacteria that she contracted while riding a personal watercraft on the St. Johns River, officials said. Candace Scott died Aug. 3, Duval County health officials said. One to three cases of flesh-eating bacteria are typically reported in the county each year, but […]

NOAA RELEASES NATIONAL STUDY OF U.S. CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMSNew Report Makes Case for an Integrated Observing System The nation’s coral reef ecosystems continue to face numerous stressors from both natural and human sources including overfishing, disease, pollution and climate change according to a new national assessment of the condition of U.S. shallow coral reef ecosystems. […]

Dark False Mussels are Back in the Magothy River For the second year in a row, dark false mussels (Mytilopsis leucophaeata) are abundant in the Chesapeake Bay’s Magothy River. The population of this small native mussel, usually restricted to oyster bars, exploded due to unknown causes during the summer of 2004. These mussels have returned […]

EXPLORATION OF SOUTH PACIFIC FINDS STRANGE NEW SPECIES AND MAGICAL SCENES; SETS RECORDS FOR NOAA UNDERSEA RESEARCH Aug 11, 2005 — The Research Vessel Ka`imikai-o-Kanaloa (KoK), its embarked remotely-operated-vehicle and two human-occupied submersibles Pisces IV and Pisces V, and a weary but proud team from Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, sailed into its homeport in Hawaii […]

NEW FISHING REGULATIONS PROPOSED FOR ATLANTIC TUNAS, SHARKS, SWORDFISH, AND BILLFISH The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is proposing new fishing regulations for Atlantic highly migratory species of tunas, sharks, swordfish, and billfish. The public has until October 18 to comment on the proposed measures. Tunas, swordfish and sharks are managed under the 1999 Atlantic […]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Approves N.C. Wildlife Action PlanRALEIGH, N.C. (Aug. 12) — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission last weekbecame the first state fish and wildlife agency in the nation to receiveapproval for its Wildlife Action Plan — a long-term strategy to conservefish, wildlife and natural areas across the state to enhance wildlifepopulations and […]

THE CAPTAIN GREG MICKEY COMMITTEE Dear Friends, I’m sure you are like many of Greg’s friends and associates – wanting to do something, anything to help.  With those same thoughts, an informal group has now turned into a formal committee, and this is what we have determined to do in memory of Greg:   We […]

WELCOME TO BILL’S CORNER! August, 2005 Dear Constituents, This summer, NOAA Fisheries Service offered a series of proposals to strengthen our guidelines to Councils on managing fish stocks. These guidelines will end overfishing quicker and require that timelines to rebuild the nation’s fish stocks be more consistent with the biology of the stocks. Since the […]