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Marine Resources brings in Kelly Lucas

Stephen McDill — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:59 +0000

Kelly Lucas, Ph.D., has joined the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) as chief scientific officer. Lucas is a Mississippi Gulf Coast native and holds a doctorate degree in coastal science from the University of Southern Mississippi, a MBA from University of Alabama Birmingham and a bachelor of science degree in microbiology from Mississippi State [...]

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Oyster harvesting underway

Lisa Monti — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:35:45 +0000

State regulators opened oyster season Nov. 5, a bit later than normal this year with a fair amount of caution after Mississippi River flooding last year kept the season to a paltry six days of tonging only. The season normally runs from October through April, even beyond with ideal conditions. This year the Department of [...]

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Deer Island extended, providing new fish habitat

Associated Press — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:17:40 +0000

BILOXI — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has finished a project that extends the eastern end of Deer Island by about three acres. The agency says in a news release Monday that 1,500 cubic yards of limestone were added in May to the nearshore reef for Deer Island North. Just south of Biloxi, Deer [...]

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Monster shrimp have researchers scrambling

Wally Northway — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:00:08 +0000

They sound like a shrimp-lover’s dream. Nearly-foot-long creatures that are beautifully marked and absolutely delectable. However, Asian tiger shrimp are proving a nightmare for researchers. The invasive specie is being found with increasing frequency in the Gulf of Mexico. Since they have never reached the Gulf previously, scientists and the shrimping industry are worried and [...]

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Walker honored for work

MBJ Staff — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:00:51 +0000

Dr. William Walker, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, will receive a First Place Gulf Guardian Award for 2011 in the Individual category from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico Program Office. Walker has spent nearly 40 years researching and protecting the resources of the Gulf of Mexico. Growing up [...]

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There’s hope early season heralds better decade

Associated Press — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:17:04 +0000

BILOXI — Derick Ross, his father and his younger brother boarded the 53-foot Mark and Dawn and set out to ply Mississippi waters for shrimp this week, just as Rosses have done since ancestors arrived here from Alabama on a schooner in 1896. By noon, fishing in wind and choppy water around Horn Island, they [...]

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Gulf Coast seafood safe to eat and readily available

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:00:06 +0000

Mississippi Gulf Coast seafood is available and safe. Stringent measures are taken by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources to ensure seafood safety. The regulatory state agency has always been responsible for taking those measures but stepped up their efforts during last year’s BP oil spill drama. “Our seafood is most certainly safe to eat. [...]

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State to limit oyster-license sales

Associated Press — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:59:29 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will limit the sale of oyster licenses for the 2010-11 oyster season. The plan will limit the number of commercial oyster licenses available for sale in each of the four major categories: resident dredging and tonging, and out-of-state dredging and tonging. The Sun Herald reports harvesters must [...]

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Oystermen sailing choppy waters

Wally Northway — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:01:08 +0000

Industry seeing worst year since Katrina In 2005, Mississippi oystermen were left pondering their future after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state’s fleet and reefs. Now, they are experiencing another “perfect storm,” battling not only weather, but also increased competition and food safety issues following a norovirus outbreak. “We are starving this season,” oysterman Randy Lesso [...]

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Perrett honored for lifetime achievement

MBJ Newswires — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:00:14 +0000

Recently retired Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) deputy director William “Corky” Perret has been awarded the America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) Lifetime Achievement Award. Lake Charles, La., Mayor Randy Roach presented Perret with the award at the third-annual America’s Energy Coast Leadership Forum in Biloxi. After receiving both a bachelor of science and master’s degrees [...]

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