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NOAA SURVEY SHOWS MOST FLOWER GARDEN BANKS CORAL REEFS RECOVERING FROM BLEACHING EVENTContinued Study May Provide Clues on Reef’s Resiliency The coral reefs of NOAA’s Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, located off the Texas-Louisiana coast, have begun to recover from what some observers feared would be a deadly coral bleaching event this past fall. […]

Administration Supports New Fisheries Habitat Initiative in DOI As momentum builds for the roll-out of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan this spring, a request for $3 million for the National Fish Habitat Initiative was announced as part of the President’s formal budget proposal to Congress for Fiscal Year 2007 as part of the Fish […]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed voluntary guidelines The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed voluntary guidelines anda regulatory definition designed to help landowners and others understandhow they can help ensure that bald eagles continue to be protectedconsistent with existing law. The Service also reopened the public commentperiod on its original 1999 proposal […]

NEW FEDERAL PERMIT FOR SHRIMP FISHERMEN REQUIREDMOREHEAD CITY(Feb. 13, 2006) – Beginning April 11, shrimpers working in federal waters off the southeastern United States will be required to obtain a permit from NOAA Fisheries.Any shrimp trawler harvesting or possessing brown, pink or white shrimp (penaeid shrimp) in or from federal waters from North Carolina through […]

2006 Striped Bass Season for Roanoke River Opens March 1RALEIGH, N.C. (Feb. 13, 2006) — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open the lower Roanoke River to striped bass fishing from March 1 through April 15 and the upper Roanoke River from March 15 through April 30. The lower Roanoke River is defined as the […]

NOAA ANNOUNCES CONTRACT AWARD FOR GEOSTATIONARY LIGHTNING MAPPER NOAA and NASA announced today that Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Advanced Technology Center, of Palo Alto, Calif., Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, of Broomfield, Colo., and ITT Industries Space Systems Division, of Fort Wayne, Ind., were each awarded a $2 million dollar contract for the formulation […]

NOAA REPORTS RECORD WARM JANUARY ACROSS THE U.S.Warmer Temperatures Result in Lower Residential Energy Demand The United States had its warmest January on record, with an average temperature of 39.5 °F, which is 8.5° F (4.7°C) above the 1895-2005 mean of 31.0° F, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The higher […]

NOAA budget request includes $1 billion for Ecosystems Program President Bush’s proposed 2007 budget, announced today, includes $1,076 million for NOAA’s Ecosystem Program, including a net program increase of $107.6 million. NOAA’s total budget request is $3.68 billion, a net program increase of $345 million. Retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., under secretary […]