The U.S. Coast Guard and 50 other federal, state and private organizations will conduct the triennial Spill of National Significance Exercise or SONS 2010 from March 22-25 in the northeast region of the U.S.
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Coast Guard Academy Cadets conduct research in Arctic, attend initial 2010 Arctic domain awareness flight
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Four Coast Guard Academy Cadets, engaged in a year-long advanced research project on Coast Guard Arctic Region Engagement, will be on the Seventeenth Coast Guard District’s first Arctic domain awareness flight of 2010, Wednesday.
Coast Guard cutter seizes illegal catch of striped bass
WILMINGTON, N.C. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Staten Island, homeported in Fort Macon, N.C., found 2 recreational vessels with illegally caught fish, Wednesday.
Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea stops in Kodiak to embark scientists for Bering Sea Ecosystem Study
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, one of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear icebreakers, homeported in Seattle, will arrive and moor at the city pier in Kodiak Thursday. The stop is to embark scientists as part of a two-month deployment in support of the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST).
Coast Guard and maritime partners work to protect humpback whales in the Pacific
by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse
LAHAINA, Hawaii – Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of Hawaii’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) from the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) are partnering this humpback whale season to ensure the safety of mariners [...]
Joint federal effort nets large haul of illegal striped bass
OREGON INLET, N.C. – Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel combined efforts Tuesday to stop illegal striped bass fishing off Oregon Inlet and found one vessel with illegally caught fish that had more than 2,900 pounds of fish aboard.