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NOAA Offers New Educational Resources Featuring the Lionfish A new educational case study on the lionfish—a venomous invasive species from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans that is found off the coast of the mid-Atlantic—is now available from the NOAA’s National Ocean Service. The new product, called a Discovery Story, is available online at http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education. […]

Estimates of Atlantic Swordfish Landings Posted The Atlantic swordfish preliminary landings estimates and remaining quotas as of October 31, 2004, for the first semi-annual season of the 2004 fishing year are posted on the highly migratory species website. To view this update, go to:http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/swordfish_catch_statistics.htm Estimates of Atlantic Swordfish Landings Posted The Atlantic swordfish preliminary landings […]

Fourth Endangered Right Whale Found Dead; Agencies Move to Avoid Ship Strikes Last weekend, trained whale observers on U.S. Coast Guard flights located the carcass of a North Atlantic right whale southeast of Nantucket, MA. This is the fourth confirmed North Atlantic right whale death in 2004. Earlier this year, a calf beached and died […]

White House Issues Executive Order on Ocean Policy On Friday, President Bush announced the establishment of a national Ocean Policy and a Committee on Ocean Policy to coordinate ocean-related activities across government and international jurisdictions. The Executive Order on Ocean Policy was issued in response to the Oceans Commission report, which evaluated the current system […]

ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA LANDINGS As of December 20, 2004, fishing year landings of Atlantic bluefin tuna are as follows: The coastwide General category has landed 321.8 mt of a possible 359.0 mt. Harpoon category closed at 29.9 mt. Longline North: 28.7 mt. Longline South: 9.8 mt. Purse seine category 31.3 mt. The Angling category is […]

REMINDER NOTICE This notice serves as a reminder that the coastwide General category Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery will close in all areas at 11:30 p.m. local time December 20, 2004 (69 FR 71732, December 10 ,2004). Therefore, Atlantic tunas General and Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Charter/Headboats fishing for, retaining, possessing, or landing BFT under […]

Carolina Beach’s plan to raise funds on north end CAROLINA BEACH | Dave Tilley loves almost everything about Carolina Beach’s proposed plan to manage the north end.He doesn’t have a problem with the town charging a fee for people to drive on the beach, and he doesn’t mind the extra patrols by police officers. He […]

White House Expected to Respond To Ocean Commission Next WeekCommission Chairman says President Has Opportunity to Guide Ocean Management for the 21st Century Washington, DC—The fate of America’s oceans will in large part be determined next week when President Bush is expected to respond to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy’s Final Report. The White House’s position […]

INSTRUMENT STUDIES AWARDED FOR NOAA GOES-R SPACECRAFT On behalf of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA has awarded two contracts to perform design and risk reduction for the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) of instruments for NOAA’s next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R series spacecraft. NOAA is an agency of the […]

NOAA’S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONNECTS WITH COMMUNICATION NETWORK TO ENHANCE PUBLIC SAFETY The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is working with the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System to establish a new communication link with NOAA’s National Weather Service to increase public safety through improved dissemination of weather forecasts and warnings. NOAA is an agency of […]