From Salem-News of Salem, Oregon.
Following the implementation of Oregon’s new commercial crab gear rules, fish and wildlife enforcement personnel along the west coast and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) have been working off the Oregon coast and found that violations of these new rules were occurring.
Numerous commercial crab pots were seized and violations noted [...]
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CGNewsTip: Enforcement Teams Bust Crab Boat Operators
Coast Guard Seizes 800 Pounds of Cocaine, 66 Pounds of Heroin
SAN JUAN, P.R. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma working as part of the Caribbean Corridor Initiative, an organized crime drug enforcement strike force, seized nearly 800 pounds of cocaine, 55 pounds of brown heroin and one MAC-10 submachine gun with a silencer on board the Bolivian-flagged vessel Osiris II this weekend.
The [...]
Update: Coast Guard Opens Intracoastal Waterway After Fuel Dissipates
PORT ARTHUR, Texas – The Coast Guard opened the Intracoastal Waterway at 1 p.m. today after the fuel that had been spilled earlier this morning dissipated.
Pollution Investigators from Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur assessed the waterway and declared that there was no recoverable diesel fuel.
Approximately six miles of the ICW was closed west [...]
Meeting Scheduled on Air Station Salem Buildings
It looks like the city of Salem is going to finally do something with Air Station Salem. This is from SalemNews.com
SALEM, MA – A public meeting will be held tomorrow night on the reuse of the former U.S. Coast Guard administration building on Winter Island.
The city received a grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Survivors from Helicopter Crash
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is searching for two airmen today after the helicopter they were on crashed about 50 miles south of Mulberry Island, La.
The helicopter, an EC-120 owned by Era Helicopters LLC of Lake Charles, La, crashed with two persons aboard during a landing attempt on a oil production platform at about [...]
Oil Spill Closes Intracoastal Waterway
PORT ARTHUR, Texas – The Intracoastal Waterway has been closed for six miles west of Lake Charles, La., due to an oil spill today initially estimated at 700 gallons.
A watchstander at Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur received a call at about 9:25 a.m. today from Kirby Inland Marine reporting fuel from one of their tugs [...]
Creole Belle Rescue Video
Video of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell and the fishing vessel Creole Belle.