Going into last weekend federal waters off the coast of Louisiana were re-opened to commercial and recreational fishing.
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service removed 4,281 square miles of
Slow starts are nothing new for Louisiana’s white shrimp season. Most of fall season harvest always comes later in September and October once colder north winds help bring up
During a weekend trip to Panama City, Florida, President Obama continued his campaign for Gulf Coast seafood, but not everyone is buying it.
Following a week of high profile White
As waters reopen for fishing in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, BP’s chief operating officer Doug Suttles offered a public confidence boost for the local seafood industry
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced last week that it was reopening one-third of previously closed Gulf of Mexico fishing waters since no oil had been observed in the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expanded the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico again this week. The new area includes portions of Louisiana’s federal-state waterline which
As early as last October, Food Safety News reported on cooperative efforts by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on
On the tail of new estimates that oil is gushing in the Gulf of Mexico at a much faster rate than previously thought, the federal government expanded the area closed
The International Food Protection Training Institute recently announced that it has partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) and the U.
It’s taken almost six weeks since the Deepwater Horizon blew up, killing 11 workers and ever since spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Every time BP fails to close its gushing oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the area topside that is closed to fishing continues to expand.
At
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last month, phones started ringing at the desks of federal scientists 2,200 miles away on the