14-93-CWS | November 20, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – Organizers of the Celebrate the Gulf Marine Education Festival have announced they will have a poster contest for the first time since the festival’s inception in 1991.   Amateur and professional artists are encouraged to submit an original poster design that depicts the conservation or scenic qualities

14-91-CWS | November 10, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced Monday that a limited oyster season will open at legal sunrise Friday, Nov. 14, 2014.   Reefs in Areas II “A” and II “F” conditionally approved waters will be open for tonging only. The Telegraph and St. Joe

14-89-CWS | October 23, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – Steven Frye of Ocean Springs has broken the conventional tackle state fishing record for the Longspine porgy (Stenotomus caprinus), the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced Thursday.   Frye caught the fish on Oct. 1, and it weighed 14.72 ounces. The previous record was 9.92 ounces and

14-87-CWS | October 17, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The state Commission on Marine Resources will meet Tuesday, October 21, in Pascaguola. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. and will be held in the meeting room of the Jackson County Board of Supervisors, 2915 Canty Street. An agenda is attached. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is

14-86-CWS | October 15, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The 26th Annual Mississippi Coastal Cleanup will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Nearly 2,000 volunteers have registered for the cleanup, and they will be working at 47 sites in Jackson, Harrison and Hancock counties.   Volunteers will be given a ticket for lunch when

14-85-CWS | October 2, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – A vessel owned by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources capsized Thursday afternoon in the Mississippi Sound.   Two MDMR employees were bringing oysters from Pascagoula to Biloxi on The Conservationist, a 65-foot-vessel. The vessel capsized three miles south of Graveline Bayou. Both employees were wearing life

14-83-MMS| September 26, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will open a recreational red snapper season in state waters every weekend in October and the first weekend in November, Executive Director Jamie Miller said Friday.   “After careful review and consideration of the available data from the federal and state red

14-84-CWS | September 26, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will open additional waters for shrimping on Monday, Sept. 29.   Beginning at 6 a.m., all waters south and west of a line beginning at beacon “18” in the Biloxi Bay Channel and running northwest to beacon “22” in the Biloxi

14-82-MMS| September 25, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced Thursday that two fishing seasons will close in October: Commercial spotted seatrout and recreational red grouper.   The commercial fishing season for spotted seatrout will close in Mississippi territorial waters on Oct. 1, 2014, at 12:01 a.m. That season

14-80-MMS| September 17, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – In honor of National Estuaries Day on Sept. 27, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is hosting a special event, Seaside with a Scientist.   The free event will be held from 8:30 a.m. until noon, and visitors will travel by boat