COAST GUARD HOISTS WOMAN FROM CRUISE SHIP PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted an injured 74-year-old woman from a cruise ship about 250 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., today. The Coast Guard received the report of the injured woman on the Cruise Ship Nordam at about 2 p.m. She had been […]
Coastal Communities Navigation Conference The Wilmington District US Army Corps of Engineers and North Carolina Division of Water Resources have scheduled a coastal communities navigation conference at 1:00 pm on April 10 , 2007. The meeting will be held at Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian Church located at 3902 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28403. The […]
MAN MEDEVACED FROM SHIP FAR OFFSHORE PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard helicopter crew medevaced a man from a motor vessel 430 miles southwest of Bermuda after he suffered injuries to his hand Tuesday. The Coast Guard received a report of an injured crew member on the Antigua-flagged vessel CSCL Genoa, a 641-foot freight ship, […]
ESTABLISHING A N. C. WILDLIFE RAMP DEAR FISHERMAN, FISHERWOMAN, PADDLER, JET SKIER, BOATER, WATER ENTHUSIAST AND ALL WHO LOVE BEING ON THE WATER. FOR OVER 1 ½ YEARS THE PROCESS HAS BEEN ONGOING FOR ESTABLISHING A N. C. WILDLIFE RAMP, TO BE LOCATED ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF RTE. 58 TOWARDS EMERALD ISLE, AT […]
NOAA Fisheries Participates in Press Conference to Discuss Ending Overfishing NOAA Fisheries’ Assistant Administrator, Dr. Bill Hogarth joined representatives from National Geographic and the National Environmental Trust on March 20, 2007, for a press conference on the state of the world’s oceans. The recently reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Act was a major focus of the event. The […]
SAFETY BOARD DETERMINES 2006 MASSACHUSETTS FERRY FIRE CAUSED BY DIESEL FUEL CONTACT WITH HOT ENGINE SURFACE ************************************************************Washington, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the fire on board the small passenger vessel Massachusetts was the ignition of diesel fuel by contact with a hot engine surface, which occurred because […]
COAST GUARD, GOOD SAMIRITANS RESCUE FISHERMAN FROM SUNKEN VESSEL PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard crews and good Samaritans assisted with the rescue of two North Carolina fishermen in the Pamlico Sound off the coast of North Carolina Monday night. A 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Oregon Inlet, N.C., and an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air […]
Caro-COOPS ocean buoys We regret that because of current NOAA budget cuts and probable additional cuts, we will be removing the following three Caro-COOPS ocean buoys during the next scheduled servicing cruise in April. Station FRP2 – Fripp Nearshore (NDBC No. 41033). Station CAP3 – Capers Mid-Shelf (NDBC No. 41030). Station SUN3 – Sunset Mid-Shelf […]
Workshops Scheduled on Gag and Red Grouper Assessments; Mar 19-22 and May 8-10 Stock assessments of Gulf of Mexico gag grouper, South Atlantic gag grouper, and Gulf of Mexico red grouper will receive additional scientific scrutiny through two supplemental workshops. An evaluation workshop will take place March 19 – 22, 2007 at the Southeast Fisheries […]
Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico- Commercial Shark Quotas Set for the Remainder of 2007 This proposed rule would establish the 2007 second and third trimester season quotas for large coastal sharks, small coastal sharks, and pelagic sharks based on over-or underharvests from the 2006 second and third trimester seasons. In addition, this rule proposes […]
