Category: SFL

North American Safe Boating Week is May 21-27

North American Safe Boating Week is May 21-27 PORTSMOUTH, Va. – An alarming trend continues to take the lives of boaters and paddlers every year across the United States, but the solution is simple – wear a life jacket! Nationwide, close to 700 people die every year in boating and paddling accidents. Approximately 75% drown, […]

TWO LOCAL STATIONS TO RECEIVE AWARD

TWO LOCAL STATIONS TO RECEIVE AWARD PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crews of two North Carolina Coast Guard Stations are scheduled to receive awards for their superior state of readiness. Rear Admiral Sally Brice-O’Hara, commander of the Coast Guard’s Fifth District, will present the prestigious Kimball Award to stations Wrightsville Beach and Hobucken on Tuesday. This […]

COAST GUARD SEIZES 4,000 LBS OF COCAINE

COAST GUARD SEIZES 4,000 LBS OF COCAINECUTTER AND HELICOPTER TEAM PICKS UP WHERE THEY LEFT OFF CARIBBEAN SEA – Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin, homeported in Charleston, S.C., and their embarked helicopter crew from Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville, seized almost two tons of cocaine Friday and detained four suspected smugglers on board […]

WEARING LIFE JACKETS SAVES LIVES

WEARING LIFE JACKETS SAVES LIVESNORTH AMERICAN SAFE BOATING WEEK IS MAY 21-27 ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – An alarming trend continues to take the lives of boaters and paddlers every year across the United States, but the solution is simple – wear a life jacket! Nationwide, close to 700 people die every year in boating and […]

Tuna Trade Restrictions Lifted

Tuna Trade Restrictions Lifted NOAA Fisheries Service is amending the regulations governing the trade of tuna and tuna-like species in the North and South Atlantic Ocean to implement recommendations adopted at the 2004 meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). This final rule lifts the trade restrictions on importing bigeye […]

NOAA Fisheries Service Considers Listing Eastern Oyster as Threatened or Endange

NOAA Fisheries Service Considers Listing Eastern Oyster as Threatened or Endangered NOAA Fisheries Service will review the status of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) along the Atlantic and Gulf coast to determine if the species warrants protection under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). NOAA Fisheries Service received a petition in January 2005 to list the […]

15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open

15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open Captain Jordan Diemer, of Pura Vida, landed The 15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open was a great success this year attracting twenty-nine boats, paying out over $20,000 in angling awards and donating over $2000 to the Eckerd Group Foundation “Camp E-Tik-Etu”. The Open was held over the […]

COAST GUARD CUTTER FORWARD RETURNS HOME

COAST GUARD CUTTER FORWARD RETURNS HOME PORTSMOUTH, Va.— The Coast Guard Cutter Forward is scheduled to return home today at 2 p.m. after a 67-day counter-drug patrol in the southern Caribbean Sea. Forward used an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, deployed aboard for the duration of the patrol, as well as assets from both the Coast Guard […]

Two Fishermen Rescued After Boat Starts Sinking

Two Fishermen Rescued After Boat Starts Sinking PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Two Cape May fishermen were rescued today by the combined efforts of the Coast Guard and other fishing vessels. The two men on the 46-foot bay scalloper Captain Charlie, Matt McElroy and William Grier, radioed a distress signal to Coast Guard Group Eastern Shore operators […]

SEVEN RESCUED AFTER SPENDING THE NIGHT ON A BOAT

SEVEN RESCUED AFTER SPENDING THE NIGHT ON A BOAT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– Seven people were rescued this morning from their boat after becoming disoriented and running aground in the Mullica River last night. A 23-foot runabout boat, owned by Ed Ryan, was found at 7:30 a.m. by a Coast Guard rescue helicopter from Air Station […]