Louisiana

New Study Confirms RFA's Claims on Red Snapper Abundance

May 12, 2009
www.wwltv.com/topstories

NEW ORLEANS – Four miles off Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans, a barge is dumping 180 concrete structures into nearly 20 feet of water in Lake Pontchartrain.

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  New Study Confirms RFA's Claims on Red Snapper Abundance

March 4, 2009
www.flyrodreel.com

A new study released by Dr. Robert Shipp and Dr. Steve Bortone reveals that the Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper stock may be at a higher level of abundance than estimated by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

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Regulators run the rule over US Gulf idle iron

Thursday, October 02, 2008
From: Offshore Engineer
By: Russell McCulley

The US Minerals Management Service is stepping up its efforts to get "idle iron" - rigs, wells and associated infrastructure that have been off production for five years or more - out of the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico. OE?s Russell McCulley talks to the MMS and others about the push and how increased decommissioning could further strain an already high demand for service vessels and personnel.

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