12-83-CWS | December 7, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) will host a holiday open house on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 from 2p.m to 5p.m. Come meet our staff and tour our environmentally-friendly building to learn what we do while enjoying refreshments. Stay for the Star Party in which

12-80-CWS | November 20, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. –The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources voted unanimously to remove the cap on the number of oyster licenses sold effective immediately. Oyster licenses are available for purchase beginning Nov. 20, 2012, at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR), between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., located in Biloxi.

13-117-CWS | November 19, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources (MCMR) certified two Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional tackle records and two recreational saltwater fly fishing tackle records during its Nov. 19 meeting.   Cecily O’Brien of Pascagoula broke the state conventional record for Gray Triggerfish with an 11-pound, 3.96-ounce fish on

13-114-CWS | November 12, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – Learn how to build, maintain and winterize purple martin gourd houses during the Grand Bay NERR’s November “Adventure Quencher” event on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Jackson County.

12-78-CWS | November 9, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – Additional waters will open at 6 a.m., Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, for shrimping by the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources. All waters south and west of a line beginning at beacon “18” in the Biloxi Bay Channel, and then running northwesterly to beacon “22” in the Biloxi

13-113-MMS| November 7, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – The following is a statement from MDMR Executive Director Jamie Miller regarding Thursday’s arrest and indictment of former employees of the agency: “We were informed today that several former DMR employees turned themselves in to the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office,” said Jamie Miller, executive director of the DMR.

13-113-MMS | November 2, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is pleased with Judge Jennifer Schloegel’s decision Oct. 31 in the Gulf Publishing case. Judge Schloegel ruled that the MDMR did not violate the Mississippi Public Records Act.   Judge Schloegel is the second judge to rule that MDMR has complied

13-111-MMS| October 29, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – Additional waters will open at 6 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, for shrimping by order of the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources. All waters south and west of a line beginning at beacon “18” in the Biloxi Bay Channel, and then running northwesterly to beacon “22” in the

13-110-LST| October 28, 2013 Despite heavy rains that persisted throughout the morning, more than 1,270 volunteers donned slickers, rain ponchos and even trash bags, to clean Mississippi’s beaches and waterways picking up marine litter at 50 designated cleanup sites Oct. 19 during the 25th annual Mississippi Coastal Cleanup, part of the International Coastal Cleanup—the world’s

13-100-CWS | September 27, 2013 BILOXI, Miss. – Several oyster reefs that were scheduled to open Monday, Sept. 30, for commercial tonging will remain closed due to heavy rain. earlier this week. Also, the stage of the Pearl River in Louisiana is forecast by the National Weather Service to exceed the management plan criteria for