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Coast Gaurd Rescue
by: Capt_Dan
2009-01-05 10:57:06

Coast Guard medevacs one following helo crash

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 07:34 PM CST

NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard medevaced an injured passenger from a helicopter crash in a marsh area near Bayou Penchant, La., after a helicopter went down at approximately 3 p.m. today.

The Eighth Coast Guard District Command Center in New Orleans received a call from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) in Langley, Va., at approximately 3:30 p.m. reporting that they received a call from PHI, a civilian helicopter company, that they received a distress call from one of their helicopters, with nine people aboard, and the AFRCC requested Coast Guard assistance.

The Coast Guard launched a HH-65C rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station New Orleans to the scene. Terrebone Parish Sheriff’s Department personnel were also on scene. One passenger was located by the Coast Guard and medevaced to the Hebert Medical Center in Houma, La. Eight deceased passengers were recovered by the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Department.

The condition of the medevaced passenger is unknown and the cause of the incident is unknown at this time.

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  BP ready to pay "legitimate" oil spill claims-CEO (Capt_Dan)
  Unified command continues to respond to Deepwater Horizon (Capt_Dan)
  Coast Guard urges mariners along the Gulf Coast to prepare for colder weather (Capt_Dan)
  Gulf Coast Coast Guard units prepare for Hurricane Ida (Capt_Dan)
  Coast Guard is responding to a 200-gallon crude oil spill (Capt_Dan)
  Abolish the Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Commission? (Capt_Dan)
  World Cat is making a huge Move! (Capt_Dan)

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BP ready to pay "legitimate" oil spill claims-CEO
by: Capt_Dan
2010-05-03 09:43:35

BP ready to pay "legitimate" oil spill claims-CEO

MIAMI, May 3 (Reuters) - BP Plc (BP.L) is ready to pay all legitimate claims tied to the oil spill caused by the accident at its Gulf of Mexico undersea well, Chief Executive Tony Hayward told National Public Radio on Monday.

"We've made it clear that where legitimate claims are made, we will be good for them," Hayward said.

"We have the claims process set up, small claims today that are being paid instantly ... bigger claims we clearly have a process to run through," the BP chief executive added.

He said the London-based company fully accepted responsibility for the spill and would pay for the cleanup operation.

The huge slick caused by the spill is heading for the U.S. Gulf shore in what President Barack Obama has called a "massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster".

BP has not put an estimate on the likely costs of the spill, which follows the explosion and sinking of a drilling rig operated by Swiss-based driller Transocean (RIG.N) last month.

BP said last week that it and its partners in the well, including Anadarko Petroleum (APC.N), were paying $6 million a day in clean-up efforts but admitted costs would rise sharply when the oil slick hit land, as would claims for damages.

Hayward said the technical options his company was working on to try to seal the ruptured well included an undersea containment system that would capture the leaking oil and channel it to a tanker on the surface.

"It's fabricated and will be on location next weekend," he said.

Another option, the drilling of a relief well to intersect and try to control the ruptured well, was also "now underway," Hayward added.

BP was also using undersea robotic vehicles to try to fix the well blowout preventer -- a mechanism that he said had failed to prevent the oil gushing from the ruptured well following the rig accident.

"No one understands why it's failed. We have assembled in Houston 160 companies from across the industry to focus on this task," Hayward said. (Reporting by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Paul Simao)

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  Coast Guard Rescues Three in Gulf of Mexico (Capt_Dan)
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  State to host new fishing series (Capt_Dan)
  Coast Guard responds to distress signal (Capt_Dan)
  Coast Guard has busy morning saving three (Capt_Dan)
  Coast Guard continues search for missing fisherman (Capt_Dan)

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Coast Guard Rescues Three in Gulf of Mexico
by: Capt_Dan
2010-03-22 07:43:01

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard rescued three people in distress aboard a disabled vessel in the Gulf of Mexico south of the Atchafalaya Bay late Saturday.

A watchstander from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call at approximately 11:30 p.m., Saturday, from a crewmember aboard the vessel, Global Lift 9, reporting that they were in distress and taking on 8-foot seas with three people on board.

Coast Guard Sector New Orleans launched an MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans to the scene. The helicopter crew hoisted the three uninjured people and transported them to the Harry P. Williams Airport in Patterson, La.

The owners of the Global Lift 9 will coordinate a retrieval plan for the vessel on Sunday.

Billfish Foundation · Total News: 7 · Total Reads: 1514

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  The Billfish Foundation President Ellen Peel in Brazil for 10 day worldwide summ (Capt_Dan)
  NOAA agrees with TBF position on Atlantic bluefin tuna conservation (Capt_Dan)
  TBF succeeds in push of Vessel Monitoring System (Capt_Dan)
  TBF asking help of U.S. rec fishing communities to stop high bycatch levels of b (Capt_Dan)
  Congrats to Booby Trap with a SUPER SLAM! (Capt_Dan)
  Cajun Canyons Billfish Classic is just around the corner! (Capt_Dan)
  The Season is almost here! (Capt_Dan)

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The Billfish Foundation President Ellen Peel in Brazil for 10 day worldwide summ
by: Capt_Dan
2009-11-06 14:12:08

TBF’s Peel representing U.S. as Commissioner to ICCAT

The Billfish Foundation President Ellen Peel in Brazil for 10 day worldwide summit

but is not overly optimistic about strong conservation measures being passed

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. USA and RECIFE, Brazil -- (November 6, 2009) -- Ellen Peel who was recently appointed as the new U.S. Commissioner to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) is in Brazil today for the start of the 21st annual meeting of the commission.

But on the eve of the 10 day (Nov. 6 – 15) summit Ms. Peel, who has been the president of The Billfish Foundation for over a decade, is not highly optimistic any strong changes will be made among the attending countries to conservation of tuna and related species.

“The past failure of ICCAT to pass science-based conservation measures for Atlantic bluefin tuna have been cited in proposals by Monaco and other nations to have the species listed by the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES),” said Peel.

“Last month the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Interior announced that they will support a CITES listing if ICCAT fails to pass strong conservation measures during the Brazil meeting. A CITES listing would prohibit international trade in bluefin tuna but would not affect the recreational or commercial harvest and trade of fish taken within a nation's waters.

"TBF took a position supporting a CITES listing last July," continued Peel, "and while we stand ready to endorse a very strong conservation measure by ICCAT this year we are not overly optimistic."

ICCAT is an inter-governmental fishery organization responsible for the conservation of tunas and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. The commission holds a regular meeting every other year and a special meeting in alternate years. Currently there are 48 member nations.

In October Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, said, “We are sending a clear and definitive statement to the international community that the status quo is not acceptable. Over the past 40 years, the international body that manages bluefin tuna, ICCAT, has overseen a 72 percent decline in the adult population of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stock of bluefin tuna and an 82 percent decline in the adult population of the western Atlantic stock.”

TBF Chief Scientist Dr. Russell Nelson, who served as a research biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service, and was the Chief Scientist and Director of Marine Fisheries for the State of Florida is again serving on the U.S. delegation at the ICCAT meetings.

Nelson stated, "I do not believe that anything short of a fully enforced ICCAT moratorium on international trade of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic will send a message sufficient to avoid a CITES listing. It’s frankly unlikely that the illegal and unreported fishing that is landing twice the tonnage recommended by the science can be controlled."

A meeting of the member nations of CITES will take place in March 13 – 24 in Doha, Qatar.

Peel added, “We do feel somewhat optimistic though that the new Chair of ICCAT, Fabio Hazen a scientist from Brazil, is working hard to get something out of this session.

“We are also encouraged there will be a working group meeting on Sport and Recreational Fishing this week at the Brazil meetings. This is a first. Many nations do not acknowledge their sportfisheries and view them more as a nuisance rather than an economic driver and an activity compatible with conserving the resources. Many nations therefore do not collect data from their sportfisheries, hence no data, no fishery that needs acknowledgement.”

She said TBF wants to help change that, getting members from the sportfishing communities on the delegations of other nations to change the dialogue.

“If others, commercial and government, are only thinking of ‘pounds of fish dead on the deck for consumption’ there is no meaningful debate. This will take a long time, but we all know there are many businesses in Asia and elsewhere that benefit from sportfishing, and we need them to be part of the ICCAT dialogue.”

Many overfished species like juvenile tuna are part of the food chain for the migrating billfish. Increasingly more countries are witnessing the value of the migration of sailfish and marlin in their regions as catch-and-release sportfish adding greatly to tourism dollars and to the growth of their economy.

Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., The Billfish Foundation works with governments worldwide advancing the conservation of billfish and associated species to improve the health of oceans and regional economies. Most recently it has been assisting with governmental efforts in numerous Central and South American countries.

Established in 1986 by the late Winthrop P. Rockefeller, TBF is the only non-profit organization dedicated solely to conserving and enhancing billfish populations worldwide. TBF’s comprehensive network of members and supporters includes anglers, captains, mates, tournament directors, clubs, sport fishing and tourism businesses. By coordinating efforts and speaking with one voice, the organization works for solutions that are good for billfish, not punitive to recreational anglers and good for the local economy.

Reach Ms. Peel at Ellen_Peel@billfish.org or by phone at 800-438-8247, ext 108.

NOAA Fisheries · Total News: 10 · Total Reads: 1514

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  NOAA Re-opens Federal Waters off Western Louisiana to Commercial and Recreationa (Capt_Dan)
  NOAA Reopens More than 5000 Square Miles of Closed Gulf Fishing Area (Capt_Dan)
  LDWF Opens Mississippi River Delta to Recreational Fishing (Capt_Dan)
  NOAA to Re-open One-Third of Closed Gulf Fishing Area (Capt_Dan)
  Superior Tackle and the Rod and Reel Revolution (Capt_Dan)
  Gulf Governors Stand Up for Recreational Angling (Capt_Dan)
  FEDS TO 60 MILLION AMERICAN ANGLERS: (Capt_Dan)
  Historic measures aim to protect over 23,000 square miles of coral habitats (Capt_Dan)
  Lubchenco Will Helm U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Capt_Dave)
  Killer Whales in the Gulf (Capt_Dave)
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NOAA Re-opens Federal Waters off Western Louisiana to Commercial and Recreationa
by: Capt_Dan
2010-08-27 16:12:40

NOAA Re-opens Federal Waters off Western Louisiana to Commercial and Recreational Fishing

Effective August 27, 2010 at 6 p.m. eastern time (5 p.m. central time), NOAA will reopen 4,281 square miles (11,088 sq km) of area it had previously closed to commercial and recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico in response to the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The area closed to all fishing now measures 48,114 sq mi (124,614 sq km) and covers about 20% of the Gulf of Mexico exclusive economic zone. All commercial and recreational fishing including catch and release is prohibited in this closed area. An area off the Florida panhandle has been reopened to finfish, but remains closed to other species, such as shrimp. Transit through the closed area is allowed. NOAA will continue to evaluate the need for fisheries closures based on the evolving nature of the spill and will re-open closed areas as appropriate.

Read the entire bulletin here.

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2009 Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Saturday Results (Capt_Dan)
Man sentenced to life in 'Joe Cool' boat slayings (Capt_Dan)

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2009 Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Saturday Results
by: Capt_Dan
2009-07-26 20:53:34

GRAND ISLE — Saturday’s final results from the 88th Annual International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo at Sand Dollar Marina. Weights are in pounds and ounces.

TARPON

1, Lance Schouest, Houma 192-0; 2, David McCaleb, Houston, 183-6; 3, Curtis Marcello, Houma, 181-3; 4, Richard Hawthorne, Houma, 181-0; 5, Jeff DeBlieux, Houma, 174-6.

BIG GAME DIVISION

Blue Marlin — 1, Jackie Bushman, Montgomery, Ala., 334-0.

Dolphin — 1, Drew Landry, Baton Rouge, 40-13; 2, Kevin Higgins, River Ridge, 35-6; 3, Sammy Rebstock, Larose, 35-3.

Wahoo — 1, John Chauvin, Raceland, 66-13; 2, Mike Norton, Baton Rouge, 45-3; 3, Divin Higgins, River Road, 38-3.

Yellowfin Tuna — 1, Emily Laris, Raceland, 134-3; 2, Landon Solarie, Jennings, 93-10; 3, Carol Guillory, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 76-6.

TARPON TAG AND RELEASE

James Plagg, Galveston, Texas; Robby Milsch, Galveston, Texas; Dana Bailer, Galveston, Texas.

BIG GAME TAG AND RELEASE

Emily Laris, Raceland; Johnathon Guarisco, Morgan City; Luke Patterson, Berwick.

SHORELINE DIVISION

Amberjack — 1, Jay Leto, Thibodaux, 84-13; 2, Neal Toups, Thibodaux, 74-6; 3, Wade Svenson, Baton Rouge, 70-10.

Barracuda — 1, Rhett Serbongang, Port Allen, 27-3; 2, Chandler Lagrance, Denham Springs, 25-3; Kevin Melancon, Houma, 22-3.

Bluefish — 1, Raymond Stouder, Metairie, 3-3; 2, Diane Braud, Prarieville, 3-0; 3, Jason Day, Denham Springs, 2-13.

Bonita — 1, Clarence Foret, St. Charles, 16-13; 2, Gerald Cambre, Prarieville, 16-10; 3, Clarence Foret, St. Charles, 16-6.

Catfish — 1, Gary Wilson, Madisonville, 7-6; 2, Denver Hoggatt, Natchez, Miss., 6-13; 3, James Talbot, Greensboro, N.C., 6-13.

Croaker — 1, Charles Kucera, Belle Chasse, 4-3; 2, Charles Kucera, Belle Chasse, 3-10; 3, Chris Dickerson, Denham Springs, 3-6.

Cobia — 1, Chad Farrel, Waveland, Miss., 56-3; 2, Andrew Nevers, Bogalusa, 53-0; 3, Charles, McWin, Tickfaw, 52-3.

Drum — 1, Joe Boudreaux, Houma, 58-3; 2, Jacob Babin, Raceland, 42-13; 3, Donald Vercher, Westwego, 42-10.

Flounder — 1, Kevin Hatcher, Donaldsonville, 6-3; 2, Bryan Bouzigard, Cut Off, 3-0; 3, Kevin Mosley, Houston, 2-13.

Grouper — 1, Michelle Gueldner, Ponchatoula, 92-13; 2, Jay Leto, Thibodaux, 77-10; 3, Blake Matherne, Metairie, 75-13;

Jack Crevalle — 1, Ray McDonald, Adelaide, Australia, 30-6; 2, Clarence Foret, St. Charles, 27-3; 3, J. Rocky Plemoni, 28-13,

King Mackerel — 1, Tim Higgins, Marupas, 39-3; 2, Matthew Mathis, Gonzales, 37-3; 3, Julie Hebert, Luling, 36-0.

Spanish Mackerel — 1, Garry Holmes, Clinton, 4-3; 2, Tyler Fairchild, Pearl River, 4-0; 3, Diane Piccolo, 3-10.

Redfish — 1, Stephen Crochet, Houma, 33-13; 2, Keith Bergeron, Grand Isle, 32-13; 3, Clark Fontaine, Empire, 32-10.

Red Snapper — 1, Lee Grafton, Thibodaux, 28-0; 2, James Miller, Luling, 26-6; 3, Luke Paige, Thibodaux, 25-13.

Mangrove Snapper — 1, Bart Thibodaux, Raceland, 12-3; 2, Monty Guidman, Pearl River, 11-6; 3, Mark Eberts, Mandeville, 11-3.

Sheepshead — 1, Andrew Brian, Napoleonville, 5-13; 2, Andrew Brian, 5-6; 3, Jay Lasseres, Harvey, 4-13.

Spadefish — 1, Gerald Cambre, Prarieville, 4-3; 2, Michael Boe, Zachary, 4-0; 3, Tary Guidry, Galliano, 2-10.

Speckled Trout — 1, Michael LeBlanc, Baton Rouge, 6-3; 2, Charles Lieux, St. Amant, 6-0; 3, Terry St. Cyr, Lafayette, 5-10.

White Trout — 1, Kevin Melancon, Houma, 5-0; Kevin Melancon, 4-0; 3, Brian Elrod, Denham Springs, 3-0.

Triple Tail — 1, Todd Guilbeau, Cut Off, 12-13; 2, Charles Lieux, St. Amant, 11-0; 3, Ted Fontenot, Gonzales, 5-0.

Redfish Stringer – 1, Jerry Larpenter, Houma, 38-0; 2, Ricky Turner, Houma, 37-10; 3, Terry St. Cyr, Lafayette, 34-13.


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