AUSTIN, Texas — When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly announced the last week of June that it was providing $5,148,369 to help restore critical wetlands in West Galveston Bay, the news took Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staffers who wrote the grant request by surprise.
“It’s a very happy surprise that we got this [...]
July 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Beginning in April 2009, four million cubic yards of rock generated from New York District, Army Corps of Engineers dredging operations will be deployed on nine New Jersey reefs over the next three years as part of the Artificial Reef Program. The dredge rock, consisting of shale, sandstone and granite ranges in size from basketball-sized [...]
April 14, 2009 | Posted in
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Shellfish Closures Follow Heavy Rainfall
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced that it has designated shellfish harvesting areas in the towns in Nassau and Suffolk counties as temporarily closed to shellfishing. These temporary emergency closures are in response to the extraordinary volume of stormwater runoff caused by locally heavy rainfall that affected [...]
December 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Department of Fish and Game (DFG) wardens arrested four suspected lobster poachers over the weekend on two all-night operations. The SCUBA-clad divers are suspected of stealing lobsters from commercial fishermen’s traps.
“Lobster trap poachers have always been a problem for commercial lobster fishermen,” stated Eric Kord, skipper to the patrol boat Thresher, whose crew spearheaded the [...]
November 20, 2008 | Posted in
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez determined that the economic effects of closing some shellfish fisheries due to a harmful algal bloom, commonly referred to as a red tide, in ocean waters off Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine has caused a commercial fishery failure.
“This natural disaster, which forced the closing of shellfish beds to protect [...]
November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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General turkey-hunting seasons are closed for the year, but hunters and anglers still have plenty of opportunities to contribute to the Thanksgiving Day feast in the days ahead.
The late buck season – already under way in Eastern Washington – gets started tomorrow (Nov. 13) on the west side of the Cascades for deer hunters using [...]
November 13, 2008 | Posted in
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The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), will be conducting a sonar survey to provide detailed bottom and habitat mapping of Kachemak Bay. Two NOAA vessels and launches will be conducting the research. The Department of Fish and Game is requesting that persons participating [...]
August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Salem, Ore.—If you’ve always wanted to try fishing, crabbing or clamming, there’s no better time than Free Fishing Weekend, June 7-8. For those two days, you don’t need a fishing license to fish, clam or crab anywhere in Oregon. You also don’t need to buy a sturgeon, steelhead or salmon tag.
(But all other current fishing [...]
May 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Reclassification Opens 1,607 Acres in Mt. Hope Bay and Kickemuit River, and Closes 119 Acres in Upper Narragansett Bay and 33 Acres in Great Salt Pond on Block Island
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management has announced that seasonal shellfish closures will take effect at sunrise Saturday, May 24. Consistent with US Food and Drug [...]
May 16, 2008 | Posted in
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