Dredging to begin near Shallotte Inlet Crossing, NC WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard advised mariners Tuesday that dredging is scheduled to begin Thursday within the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Federal Channel near Shallotte Inlet Crossing in Brunswick County, N.C. The project will continue 24 hours a day until Jan. 1, 2012. Dredge operators will monitor […]
Merchant ship crews respond to sailor’s call for assistance off Bermuda PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Crewmembers aboard two merchant ships responded to the Coast Guard’s call for assistance to medevac a Canadian man reportedly experiencing signs of a heart attack aboard his sailboat 170 miles southwest of Bermuda, Thursday. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th […]
Coast Guard warns mariners of shoaling at Oregon Inlet, NC WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard warned mariners of shoaling near the center span of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge at Oregon Inlet, N.C., Thursday. A survey conducted this week by the Army Corps of Engineers noted water depths as low as two feet in […]
Coast Guard temporarily removes navigational aids from Lockwoods Folly Inlet WILMINGTON, N.C. – Coast Guard Sector North Carolina personnel temporarily removed the aids to navigation from Lockwoods Folly Inlet this week due to severe shoaling in the waterway. Shoaling conditions in the area were exacerbated in late August by Hurricane Irene. Depths […]
NOAA Fisheries Service Seeks Public Comment on the South Atlantic Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment NOAA Fisheries Service is seeking public comment on the Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment for the South Atlantic Region. The notice of availability for the Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment was published on October 20, 2011 (76 FR 65153), with […]
Coast Guard schedules temporary changes to navigational aids near Wilmington, NC **CORRECTION: It was initially released that the Coast Guard is scheduling to remove the aids to navigation located at the Lockwoods Folly Inlet in Smithville, N.C. Correct is the Lockwoods Folly Inlet between Holden Beach and Oak Island, N.C. WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast […]
Atlantic States Schedule Hearings on Atlantic Menhaden Draft Addendum V Atlantic coastal states from Maine through North Carolina have scheduled their hearings to gather public comment on Draft Addendum V to Amendment 1 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden. The dates, times, and locations of the scheduled meetings follow: Maine […]
NOAA Fisheries Announces Workshops on Protected Species Release, Disentanglement, and Identification and Atlantic Shark Identification in September NOAA Fisheries will hold free Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops and Protected Species Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshops in September of 2011. Certain fishermen and shark dealers are required to attend a workshop to meet regulatory requirements and […]
NOAA Fisheries releases Endangered Species Act Biennial Report to Congress On August 30, NOAA Fisheries released our Biennial Report to Congress on the Recovery Program for Threatened and Endangered Species. This report summarizes efforts to recover the 64 domestic species under NOAA Fisheries’ jurisdiction from October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2010. It includes accounts […]
U.S., European Union to strengthen cooperation to combat illegal fishing September 7, 2011 NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco and Maria Damanaki, European Union commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries, will sign a historic statement today pledging bilateral cooperation to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, known as IUU fishing — a first for the longstanding […]
