15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open Captain Jordan Diemer, of Pura Vida, landed The 15th Annual Cape Fear Blue Water Open was a great success this year attracting twenty-nine boats, paying out over $20,000 in angling awards and donating over $2000 to the Eckerd Group Foundation “Camp E-Tik-Etu”. The Open was held over the […]
COAST GUARD CUTTER FORWARD RETURNS HOME PORTSMOUTH, Va. The Coast Guard Cutter Forward is scheduled to return home today at 2 p.m. after a 67-day counter-drug patrol in the southern Caribbean Sea. Forward used an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, deployed aboard for the duration of the patrol, as well as assets from both the Coast Guard […]
Two Fishermen Rescued After Boat Starts Sinking PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Two Cape May fishermen were rescued today by the combined efforts of the Coast Guard and other fishing vessels. The two men on the 46-foot bay scalloper Captain Charlie, Matt McElroy and William Grier, radioed a distress signal to Coast Guard Group Eastern Shore operators […]
SEVEN RESCUED AFTER SPENDING THE NIGHT ON A BOAT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– Seven people were rescued this morning from their boat after becoming disoriented and running aground in the Mullica River last night. A 23-foot runabout boat, owned by Ed Ryan, was found at 7:30 a.m. by a Coast Guard rescue helicopter from Air Station […]
Two Fishermen Rescued After Boat Starts Sinking PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Two Cape May fishermen were rescued today by the combined efforts of the Coast Guard and other fishing vessels. The two men on the 46-foot bay scalloper Captain Charlie, Matt McElroy and William Grier, radioed a distress signal to Coast Guard Group Eastern Shore operators […]
Draft Addendum II to the Atlantic Menhaden FMP Approved for Public CommentStates to Conduct Public Meetings this SummerThe Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Management Board approved sending forward Draft Addendum II to Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden for public comment and review. Most states will be conducting public hearings on the […]
Public Comments Requested on a Proposal to Alter Time/Area Closure for Atlantic Sharks NOAA Fisheries Service has received a petition from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Marine Fisheries seeking to reduce the extent of the time/area closure for Atlantic sharks off the Mid-Atlantic region. This proposal requests a change […]
State and Federal Law Enforcement Team Up to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles The NOAA Fisheries Service Office for Law Enforcement, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Coast Guard are teaming up again this year with commercial fishermen to protect threatened and endangered sea turtles. The […]
Comments Invited on Proposed Rule to Designate Staghorn and Elkhorn Corals as Threatened This proposed action would place elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) and staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) on the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). While elkhorn and staghorn corals are not currently in danger of extinction throughout all or a […]
Reminder to Keep Appropriate Distance from Marine Mammals A juvenile bottlenose dolphin recently spotted off of St. Helena Islands in South Carolina received the attention of people throughout the Low Country. This dolphin resembles “Carolina Snowball,” a famous albino dolphin that was well known around South Carolina and Georgia in the 1950s and early 1960s. […]
