NOAA SCIENTISTS ABLE TO MEASURE TSUNAMI HEIGHT FROM SPACE Jan 10, 2005  After reviewing data from four Earth-orbiting radar satellites, NOAA scientists today announced they were able to measure the height of the devastating tsunami that erupted in the Indian Ocean. The ability to make depth surveys from space may lead to improvements in […]
COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO OVERTURNED TOWBOAT PITTSBURGH – Investigators from Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Pittsburgh are responding to an overturned towboat in the Ohio River, near the town of Industry today. The Coast Guard was notified at 3 a.m. that the M/V Elizabeth M and three of the vessel’s six loaded coal barges went […]
Sinking of fishing vessel Northern Edge BOSTON – The Coast Guard continues its investigation into the capsizing and sinking of the fishing vessel Northern Edge, Dec. 20, 2004. Five fishermen lost their lives when the vessel capsized and sank in frigid waters about 45 miles east southeast of Nantucket, Mass. To conduct a thorough investigation […]
Scoping Meetings to Consider Effects of Acoustics on Marine Mammals NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Protected Resources will be holding four scoping meetings to gather public input on the criteria addressed in the Acoustic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This EIS will analyze the potential impacts of applying noise exposure criteria in guidelines to determine what constitutes […]
HIGH WATER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON MANY WESTERN RIVERS INCLUDING THE OHIO, ILLINOIS AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Jan. 6) – Personnel from Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Pittsburgh are working with federal, state and local agency partners to secure several barges that broke loose during high water conditions on the Ohio River, today. HIGH WATER […]
NOAA RECEIVES NEW FISHERIES SURVEY VESSELAdvanced Capabilities Provide Unique Fisheries Research Platform Jan 6, 2005 NOAA took delivery yesterday of the first of a series of fisheries survey vessels from VT Halter Marine Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., in Pascagoula, Miss. This is NOAA’s first newly constructed fisheries survey vessel in more […]
POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI ON NEARSHORE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS Jan. 6, 2005  In addition to causing tremendous loss to human life and property, the tsunami that devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, may have also caused extensive environmental damage throughout the nearshore marine ecosystems in this region. […]
ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 5, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category closed at 341.6 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. The Angling category is currently open in […]
MANATEE MORTALITY 2004(Mortality data provided by Ken Arrison) St. Petersburg, FLâ€â€ÂÂÂBiologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) have confirmed that 276 manatees were documented to have died in state waters in 2004. While the total of 276 for 2004 appears to be a big drop from […]
ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 4, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category has landed 339.3 mt of a proposed quota of 359.0 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. […]
