I got an email from NOAA today reminding me that these applications are due on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. Consider the notice duly passed along.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) requests applications for participation in the 2008 shark research fishery. The shark research pennits would authorize participation in the shark research fishery and the collection [...]
FB08-038 has been released and deserves your attention. In part…
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries Service) is seeking public comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)/Amendment 29 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico. The DEIS evaluates the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s [...]
From the program director of the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation, we received:
Attached please find the federal register notice of public hearings to be held with regard to the NMFS proposed revisions to National Standard 1 concerning the setting of Annual Catch Limits and Accountability Measures. The Public Hearing for the [...]
The NMFS is opening what they are terming a “Research Fishery” for LCS in the Atlantic and Gulf. Don’t get too excited, they intend to issue “apporoximately 10″ of these permits, but if you qualify you may well want to apply.
NMFS Requests Applications for Participation in the Atlantic Highly
Migratory Species 2008 Shark Research Fishery
The National [...]
The Office of Sustainable Fisheries (such a nice name) has released the latest on shark landings. Who would have thought that with the fishery closed, per se, that the regulatory agency would continue to generate their churn of paperwork completely unabated?
I suppose after my own boat was chosen to carry an observer in the first [...]
We just received the following press release:
“Once adversaries, now allies, recreational and commercial fishing groups met in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, June 18, to plan a united front and challenge federal authorities questionable management of the nation valuable fishing stocks.
Over-precautionary measures mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Act have caused damage, both social and economic, to fishing [...]
Government Cut, or Bob Sykes Cut, which is the main entrance to Apalachicola Bay from the Gulf of Mexico for commercial fishermen and shrimpers, has almost fully shoaled-up. At low tide the channel is currently unnavigable by any boat with a draft of over a foot or so.
