COAST GUARD SUSPENDS SEARCH FOR MISSING SWIMMER PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard, Navy, Marine Corps and National Park Service searched this weekend for a swimmer believed to be swept away off the coast of Ocracoke Island, N.C.Coast Guard Stations Hatteras Inlet and Ocracoke, N.C., helicopter crews from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and Marine Corps […]
COAST GUARD CREWS FROM 2 STATIONS OFFSHORE OF OCEAN CITY, N.J. – Coast Guard and commercial salvage crews de-water a 27-foot pleasure craft Sunday, May 27, 2007. The Coast Guard received a call for assistance from four people aboard the vessel, taking on water about five nautical miles east of Ocean City at 11:23 a.m. […]
COAST GUARD STATION OREGON INLET ASSISTS SICK FISHERMAN PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard crewmembers from Station Oregon Inlet, N.C., rescued a fisherman reportedly suffering from an allergic reaction approximately 16 miles off the coast of North Carolina today. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina was notified at 6:30 a.m., by the crew of the fishing vessel Livewire that a crewmember was […]
PERMITS FOR 2007 ARE NOW AVAILABLE This notice outlines the procedure for obtaining a 2007/2008 Atlantic Tunas Permit, which allows you to commercially fish for and/or retain Atlantic Bluefin, Yellowfin, Skipjack, Albacore, and Bigeye tunas; an Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Angling Permit, which allows you to recreationally fish for and or retain any regulated […]
NMFS Proposes Initial Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quotas The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a proposed rule to set initial 2007 fishing year quotas for the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery and effort controls. Based on the 2006 quota recommended for the United States by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic tunas (ICCAT), […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES MAN IN ALBEMARLE SOUND PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk Rescue helicopter crew based in Elizabeth City, N.C., responded to a report of an aground vessel with an injured boater in the Albemarle Sound today. The crew arrived on scene and hoisted a 54-year old man suffering from a concussion sustained […]
Assessments Scheduled for South Atlantic Amberjack and Red Snapper NOAA Fisheries has scheduled Southeastern Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) workshops for the South Atlantic stocks of greater amberjack and red snapper. These assessments will consist of a series of three workshops: a Data Workshop, an Assessment Workshop, and a Review Workshop. For more information, read […]
NOAA Predicts Above Normal Hurricane Season in 2007 Experts at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center are projecting a 75 percent chance that the Atlantic Hurricane Season will be above normal this year  showing the ongoing active hurricane era remains strong. For the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA scientists predict 13 to 17 named storms, […]
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COAST GUARD TO BEGIN REMOVAL OF BUOYS IN OLD TOPSAIL CREEK IN NORTH CAROLINA PORTSMOUTH, Va. – All of the navigational buoys in Old Topsail Creek are scheduled for removal by the Coast Guard beginning Tuesday. Shoaling has causd water depths in this North Carolina inlet to become too shallow and dynamic for Coast […]
