Charmaine Schmermund

23-43-CWS | December 15, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Hatchery Bureau made the final 2023 release of juvenile Spotted Seatrout into Mississippi Gulf Coast estuaries on Thursday, Dec. 14. A total of 4,000 6-inch Spotted Seatrout, raised in collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory for […]

22-1-CWS | January 14, 2022 BILOXI, Miss. – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) remind shrimpers that all waters north of the Intracoastal Waterway will close at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, as provided by law and the regulations of the MDMR.   All other Mississippi territorial waters legal to shrimping

23-41-CWS | December 15, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Advisory Commission on Marine Resources will meet Tuesday, December 19, in Biloxi.   The meeting begins at 9 a.m. and will be held at the Bolton State Building in the first-floor auditorium. The meeting will broadcast live on the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ YouTube

23-40-CWS | November 28, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources certified two state fishing records using conventional tackle for the month of November.   Stefanson Smith of New Orleans set the record for Florida Pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) with a fish weighing 5 pounds, 0.64 ounces. Cecily O’Brien of Pascagoula set the

23-39-CWS | November 17, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Advisory Commission on Marine Resources will meet Tuesday, November 21, in Biloxi.   The meeting begins at 9 a.m. and will be held at the Bolton State Building in the first-floor auditorium. The meeting will broadcast live on the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ YouTube

23-38-CWS | November 1, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – A total of $6.57M will be paid out to the commercial fisheries as financial assistance for the 2019 Mississippi Bonnet Carré Spillway Fisheries Disaster Recovery Program through the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR).   Those commercial fishermen and seafood dealers who applied and were found eligible

23-37-CWS | October 17, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – In April, the state Legislature passed a law creating the Secretary of State Eric Clark Coastal Preserve. This act recognized Clark’s successful efforts to permanently preserve natural lands on the Gulf Coast for public use. Clark served as Mississippi’s Secretary of State from 1996-2008.   Last week,

23-36-CWS | October 13, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Advisory Commission on Marine Resources will meet Tuesday, October 17, in Biloxi.   The meeting begins at 9 a.m. and will be held at the Bolton State Building in the first-floor auditorium. The meeting will broadcast live on the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ YouTube