Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
19
Nov
An Alberta Clipper type storm will move from the Great Lakes to just off the
southern New England coastline during the next 36 hours. The storm itself will
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
19
Nov
Can it get any worse, you ask? We bet it will. Another big arctic air mass
is about to surge into the eastern half of the nation, and temperatures will
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
19
Nov
AFP - The Atlantic hurricane season in 2008 is coming to a close after producing 16 storms, including eight hurricanes, and inflicting record damage in the United States, a report by university researchers said on Wednesday.
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
19
Nov
Temperatures across much of the Southeast today will climb to near normal
levels after overnight lows dipped into the 20s as far south as central
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
19
Nov
The U.S. departments of Interior and Commerce today jointly announced the availability of the final Framework for the National System of Marine Protected Areas of the United States, completing a cooperative, multi-year effort to provide a comprehensive approach to the protection of the nation’s natural and cultural marine treasures.
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
18
Nov
NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced the state of Louisiana will be eligible for up to $40 million and Texas will be eligible for up to $7 million in disaster aid to restore and rebuild the states’ fish habitats and fishing industries devastated by hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
18
Nov
NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced that the states of Maryland and Virginia will each be eligible for up to $10 million to assist watermen who have been economically hurt by the commercial fishery failure in the soft shell and peeler blue crab fishery in Chesapeake Bay.
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
18
Nov
NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced the states of Massachusetts and Maine will each be eligible for up to $2 million and New Hampshire will be eligible for up to $1 million in disaster aid to assist the shellfishing industries affected by this year’s closures due to the harmful algal bloom, commonly known as a red tide.
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
18
Nov
NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced that several Northwest Indian tribes and the state of Washington will be eligible for up to a total of $2 million to assist tribal and non-tribal communities affected by the commercial fishery failure in Fraser River sockeye salmon.
Author: Gulf Coast Hurricanes
18
Nov
NOAA today issued a biological opinion to the Environmental Protection Agency that found three chemicals used in pesticides – diazonin, malathion, and chlorpyrifos - are likely to jeopardize 27 populations of salmon on the West Coast that are listed as either endangered or threatened. The opinion calls for buffer zones next to salmon streams where the chemicals are used.