Mississippi lifetime sportsmen long-term saltwater fishing preferences

When you purchase a Mississippi lifetime sportsman license, it allows you to hunt and/or fish during a legal season and to take any game or fish, except waterfowl...

Seminar, publications share science about oil spill’s impact on fisheries

Five years have passed since the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. During this time, scientists have been working hard to answer lingering questions about the spill.

Oct. 15 is commercial vessels safety examination deadline

Commercial fishing vessels of any size, both state-registered and federally-documented, must receive a safety examination no later than Oct. 15, 2015.

Mississippi recreational and commercial fishing sectors: A decade after Hurricane Katrina

It has been a decade since Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastal areas in the Northern Gulf of Mexico states in August 2005. Results of surveys conducted after the hurricane showed that Hurricane Katrina caused approximately $2.2 million in...

Country-of-origin labeling repealed for some meats - Will seafood be next?

Just this past week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork and chicken. At this point it is unclear how this will affect COOL labelling for seafood.

We have been working hard the past few...

Getting ready for a safe shrimp season

It’s time for the fishermen to fix up their boats and get ready for the 2015 shrimping season. The fishermen at the Biloxi dock have been working on their boats for the past month, and now they are getting ready to fill up their boat and heading...