Artificial Reefs Providing New Habitat for Fish Staff members from NOAA Fisheries and NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries have been working with the Navy and the U.S. Maritime Administration to help the states procure and prepare former naval ships for use as artificial reefs. Almost every state on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts has prepared a […]
Public Comments Sought on Changes to NOAA’s Civil Procedures NOAA’s Office of General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to its Civil Procedures. These procedures determine administrative proceedings for the assessment of civil penalties; suspension, revocation, modification or denial of permits; issuance of written warnings; and release or forfeiture […]
NOAA ACTIVATES 500TH OBSERVATION, REFERENCE STATION The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announces the 500th site into its National Continuously Operating Reference Station network, which spans the United States, most of its territories and a few foreign countries. Administered under the NOAA Ocean Service’s National Geodetic Survey, each CORS site features a ground-based sensor that […]
KINGFISHER THE ENTANGLED RIGHT WHALE RE-SIGHTED OFF THE GEORGIA COASTEndangered Animal Survives Entanglement, Appears Healthy Jan 13, 2005  Kingfisher, the young male endangered North Atlantic right whale that was partially disentangled from fishing gear by a NOAA rescue team last March, was spotted off Cumberland, Ga., on Tuesday. NOAA team members and the Provincetown […]
NOAA SCIENTISTS ABLE TO MEASURE TSUNAMI HEIGHT FROM SPACE Jan 10, 2005  After reviewing data from four Earth-orbiting radar satellites, NOAA scientists today announced they were able to measure the height of the devastating tsunami that erupted in the Indian Ocean. The ability to make depth surveys from space may lead to improvements in […]
Scoping Meetings to Consider Effects of Acoustics on Marine Mammals NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Protected Resources will be holding four scoping meetings to gather public input on the criteria addressed in the Acoustic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This EIS will analyze the potential impacts of applying noise exposure criteria in guidelines to determine what constitutes […]
NOAA RECEIVES NEW FISHERIES SURVEY VESSELAdvanced Capabilities Provide Unique Fisheries Research Platform Jan 6, 2005 NOAA took delivery yesterday of the first of a series of fisheries survey vessels from VT Halter Marine Inc., a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., in Pascagoula, Miss. This is NOAA’s first newly constructed fisheries survey vessel in more […]
POTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI ON NEARSHORE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS Jan. 6, 2005  In addition to causing tremendous loss to human life and property, the tsunami that devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, may have also caused extensive environmental damage throughout the nearshore marine ecosystems in this region. […]
ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of January 5, 2005, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category closed at 341.6 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 29.2 mt. Longline South: 10.2 mt. Purse seine category closed at 31.8 mt. The Angling category is currently open in […]
MANATEE MORTALITY 2004(Mortality data provided by Ken Arrison) St. Petersburg, FLâ€â€ÂÂÂBiologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) have confirmed that 276 manatees were documented to have died in state waters in 2004. While the total of 276 for 2004 appears to be a big drop from […]
