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County Contractor to Conduct Sea Turtle Monitoring
Under a contract with Palm Beach County through its Department of Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Inwater Research Group will begin monitoring sea turtles in the Lake Worth Lagoon the week of August 22.
The project will evaluate the size an
Read more…Gearing up for Florida’s Lobster Mini-season
From FWC:
Dive boats and shops, hotels and restaurants are getting ready for the residents and tourists who will take to the reefs during Florida’s lobster mini-season on Wednesday, July 27 and Thursday, July 28 in hopes of capturing the delectable
Read more…Lion Fish Hunt Results
John Perruccio reports the great success of last weekend's Lion Fish hunt:
Total number of fish - 756
Number of boats participating - 7
Total number of divers participating - 75
Largest fish - 15.5 inches
Smallest fish - 2.25 inches
There were mostly
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Lionfish Hunt
Friday (24th) and Saturday (25th) we will have THE first annual LIONFISH HUNT for South Palm Beach County. This hunt will focus on the reefs in Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, and Boca Raton. It is hosted by a bunch of great local dive boats, dive sh |
Bottles for Boardshorts - in Boca!
This is a cool beach cleaning effort by Billabong and Chipolte. The Boca restaurant is participating. Bring in some bottles! It's all in celebration of international surfing day on June 20.
http://www.shop-eat-surf.com/news-item/2802/billabong-teams-
Read more…Finless sting (or manta) ray
Found on beach in Ocean Ridge. Someone cut the fins off this ray. Not cool!
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NOAA Reopens 4,213 square miles for shrimp harvest
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
Read more…NOAA Reopens More Than 8,000 Square Miles in the Gulf of Mexico to Fishing
11/15/2010 03:22 PM EST
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…BP TO PAY $20 MILLION TO FUND SEAFOOD INSPECTIONS
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
96 percent of federal waters now open in Gulf
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
Sea Turtles returned to Gulf Waters
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
90 percent of federal waters now open
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
Subsurface Oil: What Is It and What Is the Risk?
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
NOAA Reopens More Than 5,000 Square Miles in the Gulf of Mexico to Fishing
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
NOAA Reopens More than 3,000 Square Miles in the Gulf to Fishing
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
FWC stops relocating sea turtle nests from Gulf Coast beaches
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
Scientists Release the First Rescued, Rehabilitated Sea Turtles Back into the Gulf
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
