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Agency asking for help in tracking turkey populations

Associated Press — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:50:29 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is seeking information from hunters to keep track of turkey populations in the state. Adam Butler, wild turkey program biologist, said the spring gobbler hunter survey is one of the most reliable data sets used to monitor Mississippi turkeys. Currently, more than 1,200 turkey hunters [...]

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Coast city looking to eradicate poisonous trees

Associated Press — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:09:46 +0000

PASCAGOULA — The Chinese tallow — or popcorn tree — is described as an invasive, noxious plant and they will soon be disappearing in Pascagoula. The Mississippi Press reports the city’s Beau Beautification Division will begin removing all Chinese tallow trees right of ways and parks the first week in February. The city will replace [...]

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Trail reaches southern terminal, but project not finished

Associated Press — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:56:13 +0000

NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — Tanglefoot Trail has reached its southern terminal, but work on the project is not finished. The leveling and grading is complete with the trail bed ready for crews to start laying asphalt as soon as weather and new year allow. “They have laid the limestone and gotten the surface ready for the [...]

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MDEQ lifts numerous post-Isaac beach closures

MBJ Staff — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:18:11 +0000

HARRISON COUNTY and JACKSON COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has lifted numerous beach closures issued Aug. 31 in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac for monitoring stations in Harrison and Jackson counties. The reopened beaches in Harrison County are: • Station 8-Gulfport West — west end at Marie Avenue to the east end [...]

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Commercial fishing catch up to pre-oil spill level

Associated Press — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:20:53 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — Fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico hauled in more menhaden and other species last year compared with 2010, when millions of gallons of oil spewed from a blown well, according to a federal fisheries report. But it’s too early to rule out any long-term effects from the spill, said Roy [...]

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Weathered oil washes up on beaches; could be from BP spill

Associated Press — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:16:51 +0000

GULF COAST — Weathered oil in the form of tar has washed up on some Louisiana beaches from Gulf waters churned by Hurricane Isaac, prompting restrictions of fishing in some waters and tests to determine whether the source is submerged oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. “I’d say there’s a smoking gun,” said Garret [...]

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Nesting season over, oil cleanup ramping up on islands

Associated Press — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:31:24 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — With nesting season ending on the barrier islands, the BP oil disaster cleanup will ramp up starting today. BP spokesman Ray Melick tells the Sun Herald the work hadn’t been completely shut down, but was curtailed to permit sea birds to occupy the islands from April until about mid-August. A Gulf [...]

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Commission looking at increasing spotted seatrout quota

Associated Press — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:55:09 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — Mississippi’s annual 40,000-pound limit on commercially caught spotted seatrout is under review. The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources decided on a study after being told commercial fishermen reached the 40,000-pound quota this year by May 19. The season had opened in January. The Mississippi Press reports fisheries biologist Buck Buchanan recommended [...]

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Agencies re-stock river as part of post-spill recovery efforts

MBJ Staff — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:35:32 +0000

PEARL RIVER COUNTY — Approximately 14,000 pounds of harvestable-sized blue catfish will be released into the Pearl River near Picayune (Walkiah Bluff) as part of a continued recovery effort by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). The catfish, donated by a Mississippi catfish producer, [...]

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New Jersey lab director chosen to lead Southern Miss’ GCRL

Associated Press — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:35:53 +0000

OCEAN SPRINGS — The University of Southern Mississippi has named Rutgers University professor Eric Powell as the new director of USM’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs. The Sun Herald reports Powell teaches at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Science in New Jersey. He had served [...]

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