WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued four people from a sinking pleasure craft Saturday southeast of Beaufort. Watchstanders at the Sector North Carolina Command Center in Wilmington received a distress call from the 26-foot aluminum-hulled catamaran Fish Tank at about 1:18 p.m. taking on water approximately 26 miles southeast of Beaufort Inlet. A 47-foot […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a man Saturday from a fishing boat about 35 miles east of Chincoteague. Watchstanders at the Sector Hampton Roads Command Center in Portsmouth received notification at approximately 10:45 a.m. a 58-year-old crewman aboard the commercial fishing boat Good News II out of Hampton was having trouble breathing and […]
BALTIMORE — The Coast Guard, local partner agencies and a good Samaritan responded Saturday to a boat taking on water with six people aboard near Kent Island. Responding agencies included Maryland Natural Resources Police and Annapolis Fire Department. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region received a distress call over VHF-FM marine channel 16 […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a man Saturday from a motor vessel about 110 miles east of Virginia Beach. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth received notification at about 7:45 p.m. Friday a 68-year-old Croatian crewman aboard the 590-foot Marshall Islands-flagged motor vessel Atlantic Tramp became unconscious and […]
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council is soliciting public input on a draft amendment to address management and conservation of blueline tilefish in the Mid-Atlantic. Four public hearings will be held between March 21 and March 29, 2016. Written comments will be accepted until Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The draft amendment considers adding blueline tilefish (Caulolatilus […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking input from commercial and recreational mariners for an assessment of navigation requirements along the Mid-Atlantic seacoast. The Coast Guard Waterways Analysis and Management System (WAMS) survey is focused on both the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Seacoast System, open water systems typically traveled by mariners arriving […]
The recreational harvest of Atlantic migratory group cobia (from Georgia to New York) will close at 12:01 a.m. on June 20, 2016. Recreational harvest of cobia will reopen on January 1, 2017. The Atlantic migratory group includes cobia from Georgia through New York. Cobia off the east coast of Florida are part of […]
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The Coast Guard rescued three people Wednesday after the boat they were on began taking on water six miles east of Oregon Inlet. Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders received notification Tuesday at approximately 11:30 p.m. that a 43-foot commercial fishing vessel with three people aboard was taking on water. Coast […]
HATTERAS, N.C. — The Coast Guard medevaced a man Monday after he suffered a head injury aboard a fishing boat six miles south of Hatteras Inlet. At 9:10 a.m., Station Hatteras Inlet watchstanders were notified a crew member aboard the fishing boat Miss Kayleigh suffered a head injury. A 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew and […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Forward returned to their homeport of Portsmouth, Virginia, Sunday, following a two-month long patrol in the western and central Caribbean Sea that resulted in the seizure of more than 124 kilograms of cocaine and disruption of more than 3,000 lbs. of marijuana with a combined […]
