12-06-CWS | Febraury 7, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – Join the staff of the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) and representatives of the Historic Ocean Springs Saltwater Fly fishing Club (HOSSFLY) to learn the basics of saltwater fly fishing. Saltwater fly fishing is both a relaxing and exciting recreational pass time that is becoming

12-05-CWS | February 3, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources (CMR) will hold its February meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at 9 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Bolton State Building, 1141 Bayview Avenue in Biloxi.   The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is dedicated to enhancing, protecting

12-03-CWS | January 17, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) has launched its newly redesigned website at www.dmr.ms.gov. Visitors to the site will now find improved navigation that allows quicker access to popular content and highlights programs of which the public may not otherwise have been aware.   New features

                                                                                        MEDIA ADVISORY BILOXI, Miss. – Scientists from the U.S. Food and

12-04-CWS | January 13, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – Join us on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s (NERR) Coastal Resources Center and learn the best way to attract and harbor purple martins. They are one of the first colonial nesting migrant species to

12-01-CWS | January 6, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources (CMR) will hold its January meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, at 9 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Bolton State Building, 1141 Bayview Avenue in Biloxi.   The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is dedicated to enhancing, protecting

11-133-CWS | December 21, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – Three commercial fishing seasons will open in Mississippi territorial waters on New Year’s Day. The commercial fishing season for spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), which has a 40,000-pound quota, red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a 35,000-pound quota and flounder (Paralicthys sp), which has a 74,000-pound quota will

11-132-CWS | December 21, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ (MDMR) Artificial Reef Bureau has completed work on the Pass Christian Key, which is an inshore reef comprised of deployed material from the Bay St. Louis Washington Street Pier.   The concrete rubble from the pier was donated to MDMR for

11-131-CWS | December 13, 2012 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) in Biloxi continues to move forward with its dedication to restocking the marine waters of Mississippi. The latest restocking effort was of historical proportions with the ever-popular cobia. The MDMR, with the help of Aqua Green of Perkinston, Miss., made

11-130-CWS | December 12, 2011 BILOXI, MS – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) has chosen the winners of the 2012 calendar art contest. The featured artwork was selected from over 1,500 entries submitted by third- through sixth-grade students from 33 schools in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties. Students were asked to create artwork