Notice of Integrated Registration Program NOAA Fisheries Service is increasing the number of fisheries for which the Marine Mammal Authorization Program (MMAP) registration is integrated with existing state and Federal fishery licensing and permitting programs. MMAP registration will be integrated for state fisheries permitted through the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, […]
COAST GUARD TO BEGIN REMOVAL OF BUOYS IN OLD TOPSAIL CREEK, N.C. PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Due to heavy shoaling, all of the navigational buoys in Old Topsail Creek are scheduled for removal by the Coast Guard this week. Water depths in this North Carolina inlet have become too shallow and dynamic for Coast Guard buoy […]
COAST GUARD AIDES SHIPWRECKED MAINE FISHERMAN BOSTON – Crews from Station Chatham and Air Station Cape Cod searched today for two Maine fisherman who jumped overboard after their fishing trawler ran aground at Nauset Beach, Mass., and started taking on water. Ian Orchard and Micheal Darragh, both from Orland, Maine, abandoned the 39-foot scalloper, JOSEPHINE, […]
NATIONAL ICE CENTER CONFIRMS NEW ANTARCTIC ICEBERG March 24, 2006  An iceberg about the size of Martha’s Vineyard broke off from the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet, located along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern Weddell Sea near Antarctica. The National Ice Center, using visible satellite imagery […]
COAST GUARD MEDEVACS INJURED SAILOR PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A crewman with a broken leg onboard a cargo ship 270 miles east of Elizabeth City, N.C., was medevaced by the Coast Guard this afternoon. Thomas Nicholson, a 50-year-old United Kingdom resident, suffered a broken leg when the five ton piece of machinery he was working on […]
COAST GUARD REGULATORY COMMISSION TO HOLD JOINT PUBLIC MEETINGS ON PROPOSED LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS FACILITIES SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern New England and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are in the process of evaluating two Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import terminal proposals – one for the Oklahoma based Quoddy Bay […]
More Ships to Leave Ghost Fleet Two more ships are leaving the James River, headed for disposal facilities in Virginia and Maryland, in what has become a regular occurrence since the Bush Administration took over management of the nation’s ship disposal program five years ago, the U.S. Maritime Administration announced. The Howard W. Gilmore is […]
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s 2006 Guy Bradley Award Special Agent Jack Baker, a criminal investigator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement in Washington, North Carolina, and Maj. Bruce Buckson, who serves as the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) coordinator for manatee law enforcement, have received the National […]
American Scientific Societies weigh in on Endangered Species Debate This spring, it is anticipated that the U.S. Senate will consider changes to the Endangered Species Act (E.S.A.). Many of the proposed changes involve scientific issues and how science, research, and scientists advance the conservation of endangered plants and animals. Six scientific organizations developed and today […]
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DEDICATES NEW HURRICANE-RESISTANT WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IN KEY WEST NOAA’s National Weather Service dedicated a new, hurricane-resistant weather forecast office in Key West, Fla., today. The new facility is designed to withstand wind speeds and storm surge levels associated with a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. “Florida took a terrible beating from four […]
