Category: VA

INITIAL WHITE SHRIMP SAMPLES FROM MISSISSIPPI SOUND SHOW NO ELEVATED CONTAMINANTS Oct. 26, 2005 — NOAA announced today that tests of white shrimp samples collected the week of September 12 from Mississippi Sound found no elevated contaminants. The agency collected 23 samples of white shrimp from Mobile Bay to Lake Borgne two weeks after Hurricane […]

Southeast Bycatch Workshop The Southeast Bycatch Workshop, originally scheduled for November 8-10, 2005, has been rescheduled to May 16-18, 2006. The Steering Committee decided to postpone the Workshop because many of the key participants in the Gulf of Mexico have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. A schedule for the workshop will be […]

NOAA ISSUES U.S. WINTER OUTLOOK UPDATEForecast for December, January and February Oct. 20, 2005 — In the first of a two-part update to the U.S. Winter Outlook, NOAA meteorologists predict this winter to be warmer than the 30 year norm, yet cooler than last year. NOAA’s heating degree day forecast for December, January and February […]

MAJOR CORAL BLEACHING EVENT EXPANDS ACROSS CARIBBEAN, SEVERE IN PUERTO RICO AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDSNOAA’s New Coral Reef Watch Satellite Bleaching Alerts Aiding Managers A major coral bleaching event is underway in the Caribbean, and may result in significant coral death in much of the region, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists confirmed today. Currently, […]

NOAA’S SATELLITE AND INFORMATION SERVICE WELCOMES NEW DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR Mary Ellen Kicza, an award-winning aerospace engineer and federal satellite program manager, this week became the new deputy assistant administrator of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service, the agency announced. Kicza will help manage a wide range of operations, including oversight of NOAA’s current satellites, climate, […]

TWO MILESTONES FOR ARGO OCEAN ‘ROBOTS’: GLOBAL ARRAY 2/3 COMPLETE, 55,000th PROFILE NEAR The free-floating Argo “robot oceanographers,” a successful observation program that began in 2000 and is part of the global observing system to monitor Earth’s oceans, reached two milestones: two-thirds completion of the international global array and the collection of nearly 55,000 profiles […]

NOAA SOLICITS PUBLIC COMMENT ON RESEARCH PERMITTING PROCESS FOR STUDYING RIGHT WHALES NOAA Fisheries Service will host a series of public meetings to discuss the permitting process for research projects involving the endangered northern right whale in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The meetings will take place Nov. 3 through Jan. 19, 2006, in New […]

NTSB RELEASES FINAL REPORT ON COLLISION BETWEEN U.S. SUBMARINE AND JAPANESE FISHING VESSELWASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board today released its final report on its investigation into the collision between a U.S. Navy submarine, the USS Greeneville, and a Japanese motor vessel, the Ehime Maru. The collision resulted in the sinking of the […]

New Control Date Announced for Snapper Grouper Fisheries The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is considering management measures to further limit participation or effort in the commercial fishery for snapper grouper species (excluding wreckfish) in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the South Atlantic. Many species in the South Atlantic snapper grouper fishery are or […]