COAST GUARD SAVES GROUNDED FISHING VESSEL BOSTON – A Coast Guard Station Point Allerton 47-foot motor life boat crew dewatered and towed the grounded fishing vessel Guardian from Grave’s Light to safety at Boston’s Fish Pier today. Coast Guard Sector Boston received a report that the 71-foot fishing vessel homeported in Boston, with four crewmembers […]
NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE RELEASES NECROPSY REPORTCause of 2005 Marine Mammal Strandings Unclear March 30, 2006  The NOAA Fisheries Service released necropsy results taken from stranded marine mammals off the coast of North Carolina in January 2005. Despite extensive testing, no single cause of the stranding and death of the marine mammals has been identified. […]
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Amendment 15Scoping Meetings and Comments: April 1 to June 30, 2006 The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) proposes to develop Amendment 15 to its Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass in order to address a wide range of issues relating to the […]
Safety Recommendation M-06-5 through -9 The National Transportation Safety Board makes the following safety recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard: Revise regulations to require that passenger capacity for domestic passenger vessels be calculated based on a statistically representative average passenger weight standard that is periodically updated. (M-06-5) Identify a method for determining the maximum safe […]
Notice of Integrated Registration Program NOAA Fisheries Service is increasing the number of fisheries for which the Marine Mammal Authorization Program (MMAP) registration is integrated with existing state and Federal fishery licensing and permitting programs. MMAP registration will be integrated for state fisheries permitted through the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, […]
COAST GUARD TO BEGIN REMOVAL OF BUOYS IN OLD TOPSAIL CREEK, N.C. PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Due to heavy shoaling, all of the navigational buoys in Old Topsail Creek are scheduled for removal by the Coast Guard this week. Water depths in this North Carolina inlet have become too shallow and dynamic for Coast Guard buoy […]
COAST GUARD AIDES SHIPWRECKED MAINE FISHERMAN BOSTON – Crews from Station Chatham and Air Station Cape Cod searched today for two Maine fisherman who jumped overboard after their fishing trawler ran aground at Nauset Beach, Mass., and started taking on water. Ian Orchard and Micheal Darragh, both from Orland, Maine, abandoned the 39-foot scalloper, JOSEPHINE, […]
NATIONAL ICE CENTER CONFIRMS NEW ANTARCTIC ICEBERG March 24, 2006  An iceberg about the size of Martha’s Vineyard broke off from the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet, located along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern Weddell Sea near Antarctica. The National Ice Center, using visible satellite imagery […]
COAST GUARD MEDEVACS INJURED SAILOR PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A crewman with a broken leg onboard a cargo ship 270 miles east of Elizabeth City, N.C., was medevaced by the Coast Guard this afternoon. Thomas Nicholson, a 50-year-old United Kingdom resident, suffered a broken leg when the five ton piece of machinery he was working on […]
COAST GUARD REGULATORY COMMISSION TO HOLD JOINT PUBLIC MEETINGS ON PROPOSED LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS FACILITIES SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern New England and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are in the process of evaluating two Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import terminal proposals – one for the Oklahoma based Quoddy Bay […]
