Mississippi Gulf Coast
NOAA News Online (Story 1128)
In cooperation with state and local agencies, NOAA is taking a two-stage approach to address the problem of increased vulnerability to flooding and tidal surges made increasingly worse by coastal subsidence. In the near-term, the NOAA National Weather Service has installed monitoring systems that will give more accurate forecasts of coastal water levels and is using the new information on ground elevations in the forecasting of coastal storms. The long-term strategy involves drastic coastal reclamation that is intended to halt the coastal subsidence. ... [Read More]
Gulf Coast Striped Bass
The restoration of interjurisdictional fish species is a priority identified by theDirector of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Restoration of the Gulf Coast StripedBass activities are guided by an interstate Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP)prepared by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (GSMFC) in 1986 and amended in1992. The FWS operates fish hatcheries and fisheries resource field stations vital to anoverall partnership program on Gulf Coast Striped Bass. TheApalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint(ACF) river system is a major component in the restorationof this species. ... [Read More]
Gulf Coast Fisheries Coordination Office
Striped bass were native to Gulf of Mexico rivers from the Suwannee River in Florida to at least the rivers draining into Lake Pontchartrain in eastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Striped bass populations began declining earlier this century, and by the mid-1960s had disappeared from all Gulf rivers except for the Apalachicola River system of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The FWS and Gulf states began cooperative efforts to restore and maintain Gulf striped bass populations in the late 1960s, mainly through stocking of hatchery-raised fingerlings, and this effort continues today. ... [Read More]
Gulf Coast - HIDTA
Gulf Coast HIDTA ... The mission of the Gulf Coast HIDTA is to reduce illicit drug availability and its harmful consequences within its designated areas by standing intelligence-driven task forces and supporting infrastructure designed to target, disrupt and eliminate drug trafficking organizations impacting our region and beyond. ... [Read More]
SSC: Gulf Coast Education Initiative Consortium
Gulf Coast Education Initiative Evaluation Reports from the Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center are available below:: ... The Gulf Coast Education Initiative Consortium and the Stennis Office of Education, bring together educators and administrators in a partnership to promote and support regional education improvement. ... NASA/GCEIC Gulf Coast Education Initiative Formative Evaluation Report, Evaluation Period: January 1998 - June 1999 ... [Read More]
Publicly Accessible Gulf Coast Lighthouses
Lighthouses to Visit - Gulf Coast ... Location: LITTLE ST GEO ISLAND/GULF OF MEXICO ... Location: GASPARILLA ISLAND/GULF OF MEXICO ... [Read More]
Gulf Coast Sturgeon
The short-term recovery objective is to prevent further reduction of existing wild populations of Gulf sturgeon. The long-term recovery objective is to establish population levels that would allow delisting of the Gulf sturgeon in discrete management units. Gulf sturgeon in discrete management units could be delisted by 2023, if the required criteria are met. Following delisting, a long-term fishery management objective is to establish self-sustaining populations that could withstand directed fishing pressure within discrete management units. ... [Read More]
NWS Tallahassee| Marine Weather
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (high resolution imagery from Rutgers University) Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab (high resolution imagery for the Gulf of Mexico and other regions) NESDIS analyses for the Gulf of Mexico or Other Regions Worldwide National Hurricane Center analyses for the North Atlantic Basin or Eastern Pacific Basin ... The National Weather Service in Tallahassee issues wind, wave and weather forecasts for the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico from the Suwannee River to Destin, FL, out to 60 nautical miles from shore. We also raise Small Craft Advisories, Gale Warnings, and other marine flags as necessary. To learn more about the advisory and warning headlines in our forecasts, see our Marine Weather FAQ page . ... [Read More]
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