**UPDATE** COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR FROM SINKING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four people aboard a liferaft after their vessel began taking on water approximately seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 7:30 a.m. today. The crewmembers of the 38-foot, Scituate-based, vessel were hoisted into the […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES FOUR FROM SINKING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew rescued four people aboard a liferaft after their vessel began taking on water approximately seven miles north of Provincetown, Mass., 7:30 a.m. today. Coast Guard Group Woods Hole received a VHF-16 distress call from a […]
NOAA NAMES JOHN H. DUNNIGAN ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR NOAA’S NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE John H. Dunnigan, currently director of NOAA Fisheries Service’s Office of Sustainable Fisheries, has been named as the new assistant administrator for the NOAA Ocean Service by retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D, undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere […]
BREAKING GROUND TO EXPAND COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A ground breaking ceremony to commemorate the facility expansion project at Coast Guard Communications Area Master Station Atlantic (CAMSLANT) in Chesapeake, Va., is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Vice Admiral Vivien S. Crea, commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, will preside over the ceremony. […]
New York Resident Fined $2500 for Selling Tuna On the Internet NOAA has charged a resident of Forrest Hills, NY, with one count of selling an Atlantic tuna without a permit in violation of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The tuna was caught during a chartered fishing trip aboard a fishing vessel based in Brielle, NJ, but […]
President Appoints Three Individuals to Tuna Commissions President George W. Bush has appointed Rodney R. McInnis, of California, to be the Federal U.S. Commissioner to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). Mr. McInnis, NOAA Fisheries’ Regional Administrator in the Southwest Region, will continue to lead the U.S. delegation at official meetings of the IATTC. He […]
Note from NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for Fisheries: Last year, NOAA Fisheries Service proposed some changes to the guidelines for implementing National Standard 1 of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which requires us to develop plans to end overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks. In response, we received more than 250,000 comments from the public. It’s clear that many […]
IRISHMEN RESCUED FROM LIFERAFT AFTER ROWBOAT CAPSIZESLocal Portsmouth Coast Guard personnel coordinate ocean rescue. PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Two Irishmen were rescued this evening from a life raft after their 23-foot rowboat capsized about 1400 miles southeast of Bermuda. Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) Norfolk, located in Portsmouth, coordinated the rescue of two men, Gearoid […]
NMFS ADJUSTS GENERAL CATEGORY ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA DAILY RETENTION LIMITS The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) waives the previously designated General category restricted fishing days (RFDs) for January 7, 8, 13, 14, and 15, 2006. The daily retention limit on these days is increased from zero to two large medium or giant Atlantic bluefin tuna […]
COSPAS-SARSAT Rescues as of: December 23, 2005 Number of Persons Rescued (To Date) in the United States: 200 – Rescues at sea: 128 lives saved in 50 incidents – Aviation rescues: 38 lives saved in 19 incidents – PLB rescues: 34 lives saved in 20 incidents · Worldwide – Over 18,500 Persons Rescued (since 1982) […]
