Fisheries

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  Entangled Northern Right Whale - Video (33.14 MB)
  
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  Entangled Northern Right Whale (2.72 MB)
  
  Petty Officer 1st Class Nick Beaver from the Coast Guard Cutter Kingfisher looks on as crews from the Atlantic Coast Disentanglement Network, coordinated by the Povincetown Center for Coastal Studies and NOAA. The crew of the Kingfisher helped locate the whale and transported disentanglement crews to the aid of the whale. The crews were also repsonsible with ensuring the operation was conducted safely and was ready to respond if anyone disentangling the whale fell in the water. Photo by PA2 Bobby Nash, USCG
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  Entangled Northern Right Whale (2.86 MB)
  
  Petty Officer 1st Class Nick Beaver from the Coast Guard Cutter Kingfisher looks on as crews from the Atlantic Coast Disentanglement Network, coordinated by the Povincetown Center for Coastal Studies and NOAA. The crew of the Kingfisher helped locate the whale and transported disentanglement crews to the aid of the whale. The crews were also repsonsible with ensuring the operation was conducted safely and was ready to respond if anyone disentangling the whale fell in the water. Photo by PA2 Bobby Nash, USCG
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  Entangled Northern Right Whale (1.70 MB)
  
  Members of the Atlantic Coast Disentanglement Network coordinated by Province Town Center for Coastal Studies, Mass., and NOAA tries to disentangle an endangered northern right whale approximately 25-miles east of Daytona Beach, Fla. There are only 300-350 northern right whales in the Northen Atlantic. Photo by PA2 Bobby Nash, USCG.
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  Operation Shellback/nets (398.36 KB)
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Coast Guard boarding officer inspects the size of the proper Turtle Exclusion Devices on the shrimping nets. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Robert Nash.
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  Operation Shellback -- offload of seized catch/high res (63.08 KB)
  
  Offloading of 4,000 pounds of shrimp aboard the Miss Coral J. The Fernandina Beach vessel and crew had their catch seized by the Coast Guard during Operation Shellback off the coast of Brunswick, Ga. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Robert Nash.
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  Operation Shellback -- Coast Guard escort/high res (29.97 KB)
  
  Coast Guard members from Station Brunswick, Ga., escort the Miss Coral J and crew. The Miss Coral J crews voyage was terminated after Coast Guard boarding team members discovered the tri-net used for shrimping did not have a Turtle Exclusion Devise (TED). Coast Guard photo by PA2 Dana Warr.
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  Operation Shellback -- offload of seized catch (63.08 KB)
  
  Offloading of 4,000 pounds of shrimp aboard the Miss Coral J. The Fernandina Beach vessel and crew had their catch seized by the Coast Guard during Operation Shellback off the coast of Brunswick, Ga. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Robert Nash.
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  Operation Shellback -- NOAA Fisheries/Coast Guard member (51.04 KB)
  
  A NOAA fisheries law enforcement officer measures the tri-net on board the Miss Coral J. The net used for commercial fishing on the vessel was illegally being used to capture shrimp. The net was five feet to large and did not have a Turtle Exclusion Device (TED). 4,000 pounds of shrimp were seized. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Robert Nash.
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  Operation Shellback -- Coast Guard escort (29.97 KB)
  
  Coast Guard members from Station Brunswick, Ga., escort the Miss Coral J and crew. The Miss Coral J crews voyage was terminated after Coast Guard boarding team members discovered the tri-net used for shrimping did not have a Turtle Exclusion Devise (TED). Coast Guard photo by PA2 Dana Warr.