The Highland Beach Town Commission has found a way to spend almost $90,000 of taxpayers’ money and get absolutely nothing in return. There is no product or service that the town receives for this expense. Other town governments may want to look into
Read more…At the recent Delray Beach annual Citizens’ Roundtable, City Manager David Harden stated that the only way for the City to solve the difficult budget problem next year would be to raise taxes. I believe this was inappropriate for two reasons: (1) h
Read more…NEW ORLEANS — NOAA tomorrow will reopen 4,213 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters off Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to royal red shrimping. The area was closed to this type of deep water fishing on Nov. 24 as a precautionary measure a
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99.6 percent of federal waters now open
NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 8,403 squaremiles of Gulf waters which extend from the Louisiana state water line to due south of the Alabama/Florida state
Read more…The letter by Dr. John D. Wootton in your October edition (Quote gives wrong impression about commissioners) denigrates the consistently high quality and independent local reporting which characterizes The Coastal Star. It appears that the letter wr
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populations away from current and potential coastal high-hazard areas.
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Read more…BRONSON ANNOUNCES THAT BP TO PAY $20 MILLION TO FUND SEAFOOD INSPECTIONS AND MARKETING EFFORTS IN WAKE OF OIL SPILL
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today announced that BP will pay $20 million t
NOAA reopens more than 7,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico to fishing
96 percent of federal waters now open
NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 7,037 square miles of Gulf waters about 80 nautical miles south of the Florida p
NOAA, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and
Audubon Nature Institute Return Sea Turtles to Gulf Waters
10/21/2010 02:22 PM EDT
Scientists from NOAA, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Audubon Nature Institute joine
NOAA Reopens Nearly 3,000 Square Miles in the Gulf of Mexico to Fishing
WASHINGTON – NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 2,927 square miles of Gulf waters off eastern Louisiana, directly south and southwest of East Bay. This is
National Incident Command Explains Subsurface Oil: What Is It and What Is the Risk?
You’ve probably heard the term “subsurface oil” during the past several months of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.
National Incident Command – the organization
10/01/2010 02:45 PM EDT
89 percent of federal waters now open
NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 5,628 square miles of Gulf waters off eastern Louisiana, just west of the Mississippi River delta. This is the seventh reopening in
My jaw dropped to the floor after reading Town Commissioner Terry Brown of OceanRidge being quoted by Angie Francalancia in the September article, “Growth opponents delighted by court’s rejection of SB 360.” Mr. Brown’s quotes imp
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Today NOAA reopened 3,114 square miles of Gulf waters offshore of the western Florida panhandle to commercial and recreational fishing. The reopening was announced after consultation with FDA and under a re-opening protocol agreed to by NOAA, the FDA
By Thomas R. Collins
When I visited my mom at the nursing home the other day, I talked with the wife of another resident there.
In the dining room, with a crime drama on the TV in the background, she said something that I’ve heard a lot: “You look
Read more…Sea turtle nests to remain on beaches of Northwest Florida, Alabama
After nearly two months of work to translocate sea turtle nests on Florida’s northwest coast and Alabama’s coast, the unprecedented operation was suspended last week as
NOAA administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco and Adm. Thad Allen joined state, federal, and partner biologists today as they released 23 Kemp’s ridley sea turtles back into the Gulf of Mexico near Cedar Key, Fla., after the turtles were successf
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision Ends Relocation of Sea Turtle Eggs in Franklin and Gulf Counties
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), working with partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s Nat
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will reopen state waters offshore of Escambia County to the harvest of shrimp at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 17. The FWC had temporarily closed this area to the harvest of fish, shrimp and crabs on
Read more…NOAA Reopens More than 5,000 Square Miles of Closed Gulf Fishing Area
No oil has been observed for 30 days in area to be re-opened for fishing
Today NOAA reopened 5,144 square miles of Gulf waters to commercial and recreational finfish fishing. The reo
