National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

2013

November 4, 2013

Paper Charts Go the Way of Sextant in Digital Age

Mark Alan Lovewell
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

For many boaters the writing was already on the wall, but now it’s official. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, office of nautical charts, announced last week it is moving out of the chart printing business. Next April the Maryland government facility that prints them will close.

The NOAA Office of Coastal Survey Marine Chart Division will continue to keep all its waterway information up to date using high-tech measures involving survey work, and charts will be electronically accessible for free in a number of ways.

2011

December 1, 2011

Cod Rebound in Question, Study Bearish on Stocks

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

After years of what seemed an encouraging recovery for the once-storied New England cod fishery, federal regulators recently announced that an important stock is failing.

A 2008 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study of the Gulf of Maine cod stock revealed a fishery rebounding after decades of overfishing, and on pace to be rebuilt by a 2014 deadline set by federal regulators. But just three years later NOAA now says that the fishery is near collapse and may require a fishery-wide shutdown to recover.

October 6, 2011
Scott Scott Brown John Kerry Microphone

State of Fisheries: Lawmakers Dubious

Peter Brannen
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

The outlook for the fisheries is improving, a leading federal administrator told a congressional panel in Boston early this week, but lawmakers were unconvinced.

June 6, 2011
BLUEFIN BOYCOTT

Bluefin Tuna Denied Endangered Status

Mark Alan Lovewell
Conservation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Tuna

Bluefin tuna — the center of a highly lucrative commercial fishery and heated controversy about overfishing — will not be listed as an endangered species, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week.

“NOAA is formally designating both the western Atlantic and eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of bluefin tuna as species of concern under the Endangered Species Act,” a press release that accompanied the decision said.

2009

July 2, 2009

NOAA Rejects Grant Proposal to Bolster Vineyard Shellfishing

Sam Bungey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group

A grant proposal to rejuvenate Island shellfishing was rejected in a nine-figure National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stimulus program announced this week, and it is fair to say that Warren Doty, the Chilmark selectman who spearheaded the Vineyard bid, is somewhat miffed.

“There are no jobs for the little guys,” he told the Gazette. “Our proposal had $20-an-hour employees and a five per cent overhead. Meanwhile there was $8 million to Maine to build a dam and a big chunk of that goes to the contractor for their profits.”

April 16, 2009
Warren Doty at menemsha

Quest for Shellfishing Stimulus Millions

Sam Bungey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group

Last month Congress allotted $170 million to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — an unprecedented funding pool for the fisheries service — with the goal of creating several thousand jobs.

Warren Doty knew he wanted a piece.

“They said, we want jobs,” said the Chilmark selectman and member of the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group. “And I thought, okay, let’s go, I’ll give you jobs.”

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