Mississippi Business Journal » crab http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Nearly 300 derelict crab traps collected on Coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/nearly-300-derelict-crab-traps-collected-on-coast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nearly-300-derelict-crab-traps-collected-on-coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/nearly-300-derelict-crab-traps-collected-on-coast/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:35:33 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=70425 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — During the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) Shrimp and Crab Bureau’s 2013 Derelict Crab Trap Cleanup, a total of 281 derelict crab traps were removed from Mississippi waters to be recycled at Coast scrap-metal facility. The cleanup was held Feb. 21-23, 2013, in all marine waters. All Mississippi crab trap [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/nearly-300-derelict-crab-traps-collected-on-coast/feed/ 0 Woman pleads guilty to impersonating OSHA official http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/woman-pleads-guilty-to-impersonating-osha-official/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-pleads-guilty-to-impersonating-osha-official http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/woman-pleads-guilty-to-impersonating-osha-official/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:35:14 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=68699 WIGGINS — A 46-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges that accuse her of posing as a federal worker to make nearly $216,000 giving fraudulent training classes to fishermen who hoped to get jobs cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. Connie M. Knight was living in Belle Chasse, La., when [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/woman-pleads-guilty-to-impersonating-osha-official/feed/ 0 Researchers to conduct five-year shellfish study on Coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/10/researchers-to-conduct-five-year-shellfish-study-on-coast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=researchers-to-conduct-five-year-shellfish-study-on-coast http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/10/researchers-to-conduct-five-year-shellfish-study-on-coast/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:08:04 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=60973 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — University of New Orleans researchers are getting federal money to study shrimp and crab populations over the 120 miles of coast between Lake Borgne in Louisiana to Mobile Bay in Alabama. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced funding the $1.2 million five-year study of blue crabs, brown shrimp and white [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/10/researchers-to-conduct-five-year-shellfish-study-on-coast/feed/ 0 BP offers more post-spill aid to shrimpers, crabbers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/30/bp-offers-more-post-spill-aid-to-shrimpers-crabbers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bp-offers-more-post-spill-aid-to-shrimpers-crabbers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/30/bp-offers-more-post-spill-aid-to-shrimpers-crabbers/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:48:37 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=49083 GULF OF MEXICO — Gulf of Mexico shrimpers and crabbers, who have reported diminished catches since the BP oil spill, are being offered a more generous settlement package due to lingering uncertainties over seafood. Yesterday, Kenneth Feinberg, who is overseeing payments from a $20-billion compensation fund for victims of the 2010 oil spill, said he [...]

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