14-31-CWS | April 11, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources/Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) is offering a free plant walk April 19 in celebration of Earth Day. Fred Nation, a local botanist, freelance writer and photographer from Daphne, Ala., will lead the free NERR adventure: a presentation and plant

14-30-LST| April 10, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources (MCMR) will hold its April meeting on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at 9 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Bolton State Building, 1141 Bayview Avenue in Biloxi.   The meeting agenda is attached.   The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

14-28-MMS| March 31, 2014 BILOXI, Miss.– The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will begin renewing commercial fishing licenses April 1 and selling new commercial licenses beginning April 15.   Commercial fishermen who live in Mississippi can purchase licenses to catch shrimp, crab, fish, oysters and live bait, as well as business licenses for dealers and

14-23-CWS | March 17, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – A Marine Patrol officer with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources rescued a boater Saturday whose vessel had capsized. The boater, Harry Lonas, 42, of Hattiesburg, called 911 after his boat turned over in the Biloxi Bay near the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge. Dispatchers in Ocean Springs notified

14-17-LST| March 7, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR), in partnership with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR), is offering a special field-based boating education course that is approved by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP). Participants who complete and pass this free course will

14-18-CWS | March 7, 2014 BILOXI, Miss. – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources said Friday that several oyster reefs will reopen to tonging at legal sunrise Saturday, March 8.The areas that will open are:   Area II “C” Conditionally Approved Waters – and its subdivisions of II “E,” II “F” and II

12-90-CWS | December 27, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources (MCMR) has called a special meeting to be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in the auditorium of the Bolton State Building at 1141 Bayview Avenue in Biloxi, to discuss the following agenda item: Personnel Matters.   The

12-87-CWS | December 18, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – The Commission on Marine Resources (MCMR) certified one Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional tackle record during its December 18 meeting.   Thomas O’Brien of Pascagoula broke the state record for Scamp with a 26-pound, 15-ounce fish on November 1, 2012.   The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is

12-86-CWS | December 13, 2013 BILOXI, MS – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) has chosen the winners of the 2013 calendar art contest. The featured artwork was selected from over 1,300 entries submitted by third- through sixth-grade students from 29 schools in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties. Students were asked to create artwork

12-84-CWS | December 7, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – A special management season for oyster harvest will allow dredging on underutilized reefs designated as tonging areas. The following areas will open beginning at legal sunrise Dec. 10, 2012, through 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, provided that these areas meet all opening criteria provided for in