11-31-CWS | March 25, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) hosted Moss Point fourth-graders this week for a watershed and estuary adventure. The adventure was the third in a series of educational adventures funded through a grant entitled “Connecting Kids to Coastal Watersheds,”

11-33-CWS | March 24, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) is co-hosting an evening My Coast community program highlighting the recreational and volunteer opportunities to help Mississippi’s coastal preserves at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29. The program will be held in the first

11-32-CWS | March 23, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) Marine Patrol officers recovered the body of a Louisiana man, who drowned in the water near Madagascar and Tahiti streets in Bay St. Louis on Wednesday, March 23. The Bay St. Louis Police and Fire departments, Hancock County Emergency Management Agency,

11-27-CWS | March 23, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Coastal Preserve Program will partner with National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mississippi Wildlife Federation (MWF), Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) and other local sponsors to kick off the Habitat Stewards Program with a spring cleanup and volunteer work day April

11-29-CWS | March 22, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources opened Areas II “A” and II “C” Conditionally Approved Waters to the harvest of oysters on Saturday, March 19. This area had been closed due to rainfall amounts exceeding the management plan criteria.   • Area II “A” Conditionally Approved Waters

11-28-CWS | March 22, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) are sponsoring Boat and Water Safety classes, which are scheduled from now through August. The classes will be taught in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties and are free and open

11-15-CWS | March 14, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – Come out and enjoy two free festivals at one time! For a FREE, fun and educational event for the whole family, visit the annual Celebrate the Gulf Marine Education Festival on Saturday, April 2, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Established 20 years ago this year,

11-25-CWS | March 11, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Artificial Reef Bureau has plans to deploy material from the Bay St. Louis Washington Street Pier to create a new Pass Christian fishing reef.   The concrete rubble was donated to DMR for the purpose of creating a new artificial

11-09-CWS | February 1, 2011 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Coastal Preserves Program, under the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR), will partner with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mississippi Wildlife Federation (MWF), Natural Capital Development (NCD) and local conservation partners, including Mississippi Sandhill Crane and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuges and the Land Trust