*New Jacksonville Beach pier set to open for business tomorrow
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 12-29-04

*Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key are scheduled to reopen to non-residents Sunday evening
-Daytona Beach News, 12-31-04

*Money will help rebuild dunes which may help residents along Old Highway A1A
-St. Augustine Record, 12-28-04

*Two odd and very different fates met the sailboats abandoned when the U.S. Coast Guard rescued six Charleston area residents last weekend
-Charleston Postna d Courier, 12-26-04

*Developers haven't given up on Daufuskie. Earlier this month, a Beaufort County judge sided with a company looking to build a public-access marina with residential and commercial development
-Beaufort Gazette, 12-26-04

*The Savannah Palmer Johnsonyard, located on the Savannah River near historic River Street, will close before the end of January 31, 2005, officials said
-Coast News

*Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear
-Savannah Morning News, 12-23-04

*The Jacksonville Beach City Council Monday OK'd a resolution vowing to support the city's new 35-foot height limit
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 12-22-04

*Flagler halts beach driving on an 11.5-mile section between Beverly Beach and Marineland
-Daytona News Journal, 12-23-04

*New Smyrna Beach driving ban effort loses round
-Daytona News Journal, 12-22-04

*As the Monday sun set, the decommissioned aircraft carrier Oriskany and four tug boats inched through Pensacola Pass silhouetted by crimson skies. The heavily weathered and rusted ship is set to be an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico about 25 miles south of Pensacola
-Pensacola News Journal, 12-21-04

*Shrimp industry sees big decline: Even though individual boats are bringing in an average number of shrimp this year, the number of shrimp boats in South Carolina waters has gone down
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 12-20-04

*Harbor dredging this week; East Pass planned next month
-Destin Log, 12-18-04

*Visitors to Cumberland Island National Seashore will soon be able to visit the First African Baptist Church and Plum Orchard without having to hike for miles
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 12-18-04

*A new law that saves homeowners from paying multiple out-of-pocket deductibles during hurricane season could hit condominium owners like a cold, hard wave
*Finding a balance between beachside development and the public's claim to one of Volusia County's most sought-after resources
-Daytona News Journal, 12-18-04

*In a few years, the peninsula that juts northward between Fowl River and Mobile Bay may again be a vibrant tidal marsh
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 12-16-04

*Flood maps show reach of Ivan: FEMA information could help shape rebuilding decisions
*The Santa Rosa County Commission wants to take a broader look at how to replace the Pensacola Bay Bridge, linking Gulf Breeze and Pensacola
-Pensacola News Journal, 12-17-04

*A federal judge declined to rule Wednesday on an injunction to ban cars from a portion of New Smyrna Beach used by the piping plover
-Daytona News Journal, 12-16-04

*Current state of the intracoastal waterway in Georgia
-Brunswick News, 12-14-04

*Two rare Atlantic right whales are thought to be in the ocean off South Carolina, their heads and fins tangled in lethal lines
-Charleston Post and Courier, 12-14-04

*Happier days for blue crabs; the populations seems to be rebounding and a Skidaway researcher thinks he knows why
-Savannah Morning News, 12-13-04

*Coastal residents whose beaches were washed away by this year's hurricanes stand to benefit from $68 million to rebuild
-Pensacola News Journal, 12-14-04

*Long overlooked, Daytona Beach is poised for cataclysmic growth. The days of cheap beach lifestyles and "Affordable Florida"-style tourism are numbered. Not everyone is happy about it
-Daytona News Journal, 12-12-04

*Oyster Dealers Shuck Vibrio Fallout
-Apalachicola Times, 12-9-04

*Jacksonville and Jacksonville Beach officials committed to getting the new oceanfront pier open before Gator Bowl
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 12-10-04

*Piping plover looms large in the latest lawsuit seeking to strip cars from Volusia County beaches
*County and city officials are looking at piggybacking on a long-planned Intracoastal Waterway dredging project by the district to get, at least, 800,000 cubic yards of sand on badly eroded beaches before next year's hurricane season
-Daytona News Journal, 12-11-04

*Hilton Head Island officials presented a modified plan Thursday for rebuilding the beach at The Spa on Port Royal Sound
-Hilton Had Island Packet Online, 12-10-04

*In a bill passed Wednesday, the federal government gave the green light to motorized tours of Cumberland Island — the largest undeveloped barrier island on the eastern seaboard
-Brunswick News, 12-9-04

*Flagler considers 6-month ban on beach driving
-Daytona News Journal, 12-8-04

*New Smyrna Beach makes formal bid for sand to renourish beaches
*Florida beach officials have come up with a plethora of cheaper and faster solutions to get sand on local beaches
-Daytona News Journal, 12-9-04

*Sea turtles stand to gain protection from accidental killings through a new federal policy announced Thursday to require stricter documentation on imports of shrimp and shrimp products
-Daytona News Journal, 12-10-04

*3,700 homes planned for New Smyrna Beach
-Daytona News Journal, 12-9-04

*This season's hurricanes stripped more than just sand from Volusia County's beaches. They whisked away $300,000 in toll revenue usually collected when drivers park on the beach during the 10-month toll season ending Nov. 30
-Daytona News Journal, 12-7-04

*Plans to repair sand dunes damaged from Florida's historic hurricane season could be blocked by nesting sea turtles until the end of next year's hurricane season
-Tallahassee Democrat, 12-7-04

*Hunting Island beach nourishment could bring better turtle nesting
*Hilton Head Island dredging might rely on public money funding
-Beaufort Gazette, 12-5-04

*Coastal Georgia Historical Society is preparing to put a permanent spotlight on the St. Simons Island Lighthouse with a $5-million construction project
-Brunswick News, 12-4-04

*Recent trade decisions in Washington have area shrimpers hopeful short-term relief is on the way for their beleaguered domestic industry
-Brunswick News, 12-4-04

*The aging Pensacola Bay Bridge likely will be replaced with either a four- or a six-lane bridge east of the current structure
-Pensacola News Journal, 12-4-04

*A work in progress for dune walkovers
-Walton Sun, 12-4-04

*Report cites size, finances as factors against bringing container ships to Brunswick
-Brunswick News, 12-2-04

*Hilton Head Island may alter its plans to rebuild the beach at The Spa on Port Royal Sound after members of the island Audubon Society chapter objected to where the new beach would end
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 12-2-04

*Florida environmental officials plan to ask lawmakers for an emergency appropriation of nearly $70 million to put back millions of tons of sand washed off the state's beaches in Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne
-Daytona News Journal, 12-1-04

*The piping plover -- a small, federally protected shorebird that winters on Dauphin Island -- won't hold up sand from being piled onto the Gulf beach
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 12-1-04

*The Bush administration on Tuesday upheld the imposition of tariffs on shrimp imported from China and Vietnam
-Charleston Post and Courier, 12-1-04

*Automobile carriers at Colonel's Island and bulk cargo ships at Mayor's Point may symbolize the Port of Brunswick, but cruise ships that dock at Mary Ross Waterfront Park carry a cargo far more important to downtown businesses — they bring people
-Brunswick News, 11-30-04

*But the piping plover -- a sparrow-sized, federally protected shorebird that winters on Dauphin Island, feeding in the shallow beach tide -- may hold the fate of more than 100 west-end island homes in its nut brown beak
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 11-29-04

*The decommissioned aircraft carrier Oriskany is set to arrive in Pensacola around Dec. 18, a major step in the process that will send it to the sea floor as an artificial reef. The sinking is to take place in June, 25 miles south of Pensacola Pass
-Pensacola News Journal, 12-1-05

*With concerns of recapturing lost tourist dollars behind them, the Beaufort County Council must decide what to do with future revenue from a 3 percent accommodations tax
-Beaufort Gazette, 11-29-04

*ST. AUGUSTINE -- A sunken 19th-century ship, uncovered by Hurricane Jeanne's beach erosion, has been discovered along the coast of this northeast Florida community
-Daytona News Journal, 11-25-04

*Congressman Allen Boyd (D-North Florida) sent a letter to the United States Department of Commerce and the National Marine Fisheries urging the reopening of deep and shallow water fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico to provide three to four more weeks of fishing for Florida fishermen
-Port St. Joe Star, 11-25-04

*Hilton Head Island officials may consider expanding the area to be included in the next beach renourishment project based on a recent survey of 13 miles of the island's beaches
*Plans to preserve Hunting Island's beaches got a slight boost in funding last weekend
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 11-24-04

*Beginning April 2005, recreational crabbers in Georgia will have to stick to one color when setting out commercial-type traps in state waters. Floats marking their traps will have to be fluorescent or lime green, the DNR has decide
-Brunswick News, 11-23-04

*Shipwrecks surfaced on Anastasia Island and New Smyrna Beach after the hurricane season
-Florida Times Union, 11-24-04

*Archaeologists have discovered a sunken 19th-century ship off St. Augustine's shore, uncovered by Hurricane Jeanne
-St. Augustine Record, 11-24-04

*Lawyers for the South Island Dredging Association and Safe Harbor Sediment Recovery told an Administrative Law Court judge Monday that the groups won't turn over information to state officials because of a pending federal criminal investigation
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 11-23-04

*The Brunswick harbor will continue to get deeper
-Brunswick News, 11-22-04

*Harvesters and seafood dealers say demand for Apalachicola Bay oysters has dropped after reports of sickness and two recent deaths in Florida linked to eating the shellfish raw
-Tallahassee Democrat, 11-23-04

*The commercial grouper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico has been effectively shut down by the National Marine Fisheries Service after it determined the annual quota of one species, red grouper, was reached
* The future of many local fishing piers damaged by Hurricane Ivan is unknown. Many spans are missing on the two drive-on fishing bridges that once stretched nearly 3 miles across Pensacola Bay. It isn’t known when the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier will reopen, and it could be six months before work begins at the Fort Pickens Fishing Pier.
*It's going to be a while before visitors can return to much of Gulf Islands National Seashore -- damage was worse than expected
-Pensacola News Journal, 11-22-04

*Oystermen insist harvesting industry is safe as ever
-Panama City News Herald, 11-21-04

*Sea Island Co. got a green light from Glynn County commissioners Thursday to move forward with plans to restrict access onto the resort and residential island
-Brunswick News, 11-19-04

*Eastbound span of the Interstate 10 bridge across Escambia Bay will open one lane to traffic today, nearly a month ahead of schedule
-Pensacola News Journal, 11-20-04

*State greenhouse project yields bountiful shrimp harvest in small space
-Charleston Post and Courier, 11-17-04

*The Pensacola landmark Joe Patti’s Seafood, shut down for two months by Hurricane Ivan, reopened Monday
-Pensacola News Journal, 11-16-04

*Seminar investigates marsh grass die-off
-Beaufort Gazette, 11-15-04

*Proposed limits show difficulty of cleaning up Savannah harbor
-Savannah Morning News, 11-15-04

*Nourishment plan's impact still sinking in. Now, the storms have left even some of the former opponents demanding sand
-Daytona News Journal, 11-15-04

*In the aftermath of this year's hurricanes, county, state and federal officials are pursuing ways to get some sand back on the beaches quickly. But in Volusia County, officials say a much bigger supply will come eventually in a plan to dredge and dump sand on the beaches most prone to erosion
*For wildlife, a nourished beach is better than no beach
-Daytona News Journal, 11-14-04

*Shrimp-baiting season uneventful; hot spots this year were Chechessee River and Calibogue Sound
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 11-13-04

*Sand dredged from the Intracoastal Waterway and Ponce de Leon Inlet may be deposited onto Volusia County's severely eroded southern beaches
*NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City and county officials worked Friday to resolve a dispute that's holding up construction of protective sand dunes designed to prevent further beach erosion in front of 50 oceanfront properties
-Daytona News Journal, 11-13-04

*First expected to open in September and then pushed back to around Thanksgiving, city officials said it could be next year before the new Jacksonville Beach fishing pier is open to the public
-Ponte Vedra Leader, 11-5-04

*Weeks after Hurricane Jeanne blasted away sand and dunes from New Smyrna Beach, people headed to the ocean must confront a coastline barricaded behind fences, chains, and caution tape
-Daytona News Journal, 11-5-04

*Escambia Bay bridge work could take years
-Pensacola News Journal, 11-5-04

*Step lightly; Ivan leaves hidden hazards on beaches
-Pensacola News Journal, 11-4-05

*Pensacola Beach’s business core reopens to public Monday
Pensacola News Journal, 10-31-04

*Hunting Island lighthouse repairs began this week, with state park officials expecting to open it early next year after 23 cracked steps shuttered the popular tourist draw more than a year ago
-Beaufort Gazette, 10-23-04

*Contractors have pretty much cleared hurricane debris off Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 10-20-04

*South Carolina environmental officials want to change the state's dock regulations to encourage more community docks and fewer individual docks
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-19-04

*The Georgia Sea Turtle Center is short of its fundraising goal but says it has a plan that may help the situation
-Brunswick News, 10-18-04

*Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key Residents Granted Daily Access To Their Homes
-Pensacola News Journal, 10-17-04

*Experts: Dunes hit hard by Ivan but will re-form
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 10-17-04

*Studies show fish may flee storms, researchers want to know where they go
-Tallahassee Democrat, 10-17-04

*Despite delays caused by seven tropical weather systems this summer, construction of the new Cooper River bridge remains well ahead of schedule
-Charleston Post and Courier, 10-15-04

*Storms Spare Winter Bars - Clam Farmers May Benefit from Drop in Supply
-Apalachicola Times, 10-14-04

*The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley keeps bubbling up in the Charleston state Senate race
-Charleston Post and Courier, 10-12-04

*South Carolina's beaches, battered by five tropical systems this year, are in their worst shape in years heading into the winter storm season
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-12-04

*Water quality testing hasn't provided answers to why Georgia's beaches have been under advisory numerous times this season
-Savannah Morning News, 10-11-04

*New law requires major retailers to put country of origin labels on shrimp, some fish. Shrimpers could see increase in prices
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 10-9-04

*As American Beach approaches the 70th anniversary of its founding in January, activists who have long been fighting to preserve the historic beach community are already celebrating
-Florida Times Union, 10-9-04

*More than 80 percent of the Volusia's 172 public walkways and ramps were damaged at least minimally in the storms and many lead to large drop-offs at the bottom of the stairs where sand once stood
-Daytona News Journal, 10-9-04

*Fourth annual Florida Panhandle Birding and Wildflower Festival takes off
-Port St. Joe Star, 10-7-04

*This year's annual Shrimp Festival will pay homage to the blockbuster movie that inspired Beaufort officials to start the event almost 10 years ago
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-7-04

*Contractor Balfour Beatty will have to repair an artificial reef at the mouth of Port Royal Sound after it dumped bridge debris that now poses a hazard to boaters
*Vitex plant might not look like a potential menace to Lowcountry beaches. But if it finds its way here, it has the ability to harm the dune system
*Hunting Island's marshwalk closed for repairs
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-6-04

*President Bush signed legislation Tuesday that makes American Beach part of the Timucuan Preserve, giving the historic oceanfront and dunes protection under the National Park Service
-Florida Times Union, 10-6-04

*The 33rd annual National Shrimp Festival originally scheduled to begin later this week, has been canceled
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 10-5-04

*’Heroic effort’ opens I-10 span
-Pensacola News Journal, 10-6-04

*Scientists unable to explain why fewer than 100 loggerheads nested on Georgia beaches this year
-Savannah Morning News, 10-4-04

*Jekyll Island will be centerstage during Georgia's Colonial Coast Birding and Nature Festival this weekend
-Brunswick News, 10-4-04

*Hurricane Jeanne drives cars from beaches, extensive loss of sand puts crimp in oceanside activities
-Daytona News Journal, 10-4-04

*Increased access to Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key will be granted to residents, contractors and insurance adjusters, Escambia County officials decided Monday
-Pensacola News Journal, 10-4-04

*Just two years after a massive effort to straighten and anchor the Cape St. George Light, it is in danger again. The Gulf of Mexico waves are eroding the beach shore of the northernmost tip of Little St. George Island at the rate of ten feet year
-Apalachicola Times, 9-30-04

*Folly Beach locals come down on both sides of 2 a.m. bar closing
*State oyster shell recycling program gives young oysters places to attach and grow
-Charleston Post and Courier, 10-1-04

*Hilton Head Island's disappointing sea turtle nesting season came to an end this week when the final nest of the year hatched
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-01-04

*A Celebration of Shrimp, an event to support the South Carolina Shrimpers Association, will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 10 on Lady's Island
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 10-1-04

*Rock shrimp: not just any shrimp
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 9-30-04

*Jellyfish--Harvesting and Aiding Tourism All at Once
*The fourth annual Florida Panhandle Birding and Wildflower Festival takes flight next week
*The U.S. Air Force has, apparently, affixed some wings to the proposal to transform the Cape San Blas lighthouse, keepers' quarters and grounds into a park/museum
-Port St. Joe Star, 9-30-04

*Hunting Island State Park's marshwalk is expected to close today for five months of repairs
-Beaufot Gazette, 9-30-04

*Beach erosion reported
*Sea turtle nests damaged during storm
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 9-29-04

*Folly Beach City Council on Tuesday rejected the idea of building a sea wall on public land to protect private property from erosion
-Charleston Post and Courier, 9-29-04

*2004 Fishing Rodeo party Thursday, fishing on Friday
-Destin Log, 9-29-04

*FOLLY BEACH--One of the most popular beach access points here is closed, mainly because there's no beach left to access
-Charleston Post and Courier, 9-28-04

*Hilton Head Island should reach 53,300 full-time residents by 2020, a 57 percent increase from 2000
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 9-28-04

*Geechee-Gullah festival in Darien Saturday
-Brunswick News, 9-27-04

*A 16-member commission delivered a final report to Congress and the president this week, calling for the nation's ocean policy to be revamped
-Beaufort Gazette, 9-27-04

*State buys Tiger Island so it can be added to Fort Clinch State Park
-Fernandina Beach News Leader, 9-25-05

*The opening of the Jacksonville Beach pier, expected around Thanksgiving, has been postponed until December
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 9-24-04

*There are two kinds of people who live in the Lowcountry today. Those who lived through hurricane Hugo and those who didn't
-Chareslton Post and Courier, 9-21-04

*Brunswick Port sees traffic on rise
-Brunswick News, 9-20-04

*South Carolina's largest volunteer beach cleanup happens from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at just about any beach or tidal creek that needs some attention
-Charleston Post and Courier, 9-17-04

*South Carolina residents can begin eating freshly harvested oysters and clams with the opening Thursday, September 23 of the state's shellfish season
-Beaufort Gazette, 9-17-04

* Georgia's shrimp industry hopes to cash in on the nation's low-fat, low-carb fad
-Brunswick News, 9-14-04

*Palmetto Bluff's owners are suing the state to lay claim to about 5,500 acres of marshes and tidelands abutting the property, citing king's grants and state grants from the 1700s and 1800s
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 9-11-04

*Locals could see more catch in nets when shrimp-baiting season opens today
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 9-10-04

*Georgia Department of Natural Resources is still surveying the beaches of the Golden Isles to assess the level of damage done by Hurricane Frances
-Brunswick News, 9-8-04

*Two fatal incidents in Beaufort County rivers over the Labor Day weekend accounted for the county's eighth and ninth drownings of the year, tripling last year's total of three local deaths
-Brunswick News, 9-8-04

*Shrimp-baiting season September 10 to November 11 expected to be good
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 9-8-04

*Sand around St. Johns County Ocean Fishing Pier washed away by Frances
-St. Augustine Record, 9-8-04

*Hurricane tears up Flagler Pier
-Daytona News Journal, 9-6-04

*Sharks: Do big numbers equal big danger? Bull shark, which is a notorious loner and is known to aggressively pursue large prey, is believed to be responsible for virtually all of the serious attacks on humans along the Gulf Coast
-Dauphin Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 9-5-04

*Pensacola Beach marks year without drownings
-Pensacola News Journal, 9-5-04

*Developers of a Lazaretto Creek Marina project are seeking state permission to add a 420-foot long floating dock, renovate an aging over-the-water restaurant and make other changes at the old fishing- and shrimp-boat dock that serves as a gateway to Tybee Island, Georgia
-Coast News

*Despite three tropical systems in the past three weeks, the barrier islands have fared OK as far as erosion goes
-Charleston Post and Courier, 9-3-04

*Beaches, marshes and boat landings throughout the Lowcountry should get a good cleaning this month
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 9-3-04

*How the Apalachicola Northern Railroad gave Port St. Joe its name
-Port St. Joe Star, 9-2-04

*Hugo survivors vow they won't stick around for hurricane
*Officials watch for erosion, rip currents
-Charleston Post and Courier, 9-2-04

*Labor Day weekend on Hilton Head Island usually is the last hurrah for island resorts. But like an obnoxious guest, Hurricane Frances is putting a damper on the party
-Hilton Head Island Packet Onine, 9-2-04

*Massive Coast Guard buoy washes up on Fripp Island
-Beaufort Gazette, 9-1-04

*HUNTING ISLAND: Funds earmarked, but renourishment project might not get started until next year
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 9-1-04

*Georgia's blue crab industry says it needs help
-Brunswick News, 8-31-04

*High mercury levels found in Savannah River, anglers need to be careful about what they catch and eat
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-31-04

*Sharks seen, but no special warnings here
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-31-04

*490-foot structure to be built in Lands End community
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-30-04

*The submarine Alligator was headed for Charleston when it disappeared in the dark days of the Civil War
-Charleston Post and Courier, 8-29-04

*Prposed development of about 730 acres in the island's Webb tract would mean more jobs and more amenities for the barrier island's residents. But not everyone on Daufuskie is sure the trade-off is good
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-29-04

*Organic shrimp wave of future
-Hiton Head Island Packet Online 8-29-04

*"Sharks of South Carolina," written by Charles Farmer of the DNR, is the first comprehensive guide to shark species in the state, and covers 13 families and 39 species indigenous to inshore and offshore waters
-Carolina Morning News, 8-29-04

*Beach nourishment project put on hold for at least a year
-Destin Log, 8-28-04

*MOUNT PLEASANT--A fishing pier the town plans to build on pilings from the Silas Pearman Bridge would be longer than the Folly Beach fishing pier and closer to the water
-Charleston Post and Courier, 8-27-04

*Hilton Head Island officials decided Thursday to include the beach in front of The Spa on Port Royal Sound in a larger project to rebuild the island's shoreline
-Hilton Head Island Packet Onoine, 8-27-04

*Mega-marina planned for along Wilmington River
*The art of saltwater fly fishing
-Savannah Morning News, 8-26-04

*Kiawah considers zoning change to control house size
-Charleston Post and Courier, 8-25-04

*11-foot-long pygmy sperm whale stranded itself on the beach in front of the Sea Pines Beach Club
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-25-04

*Beach safety takes a hit. lifeguard pool shrinks as school starts
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-25-04

*Clewiston shrimp farmer has jumbo plans for organic crop
-Tallahassee Democrat, 8-24-04

*Yemmassee Shrimp Festival kicks off town's birthday party
-Brunswick News, 8-23-04

*Choctaw Beach site of repeated water contamination
-Walton Sun, 8-21-04

*Fishing Piers to be Closed: new request for proposals from the private sector for operating the two remaining ends of the old St. George Island bridge as fishing piers
*Apalachicola Times, 8-19-04

*Volunteers count and measure fish at Gray's Reef
*Tybee's beaches are off-limits, but there are other nearby beaches that welcome dogs
-Savannah Morning News, 8-21-04

*Kingfish Classic: Georgia's largest saltwater fishing tournament began under calm skies on tranquil seas Friday morning
-Brunswick News, 8-20-04

*Excitement Building for Port St. Joe’s 8th Annual Scallop Festival
-Apalachicola Times, 8-19-04

*Good news for Hilton Head Island: Tourism is up this year
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-19-04

*Kingfish Classic is a big boost to community
-Brunswick News, 8-18-04

*New Events Scheduled for Scallop Festival
-Port St. Joe Star, 8-19-04

*Beach eroding, but that’s OK
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-17-04

*Turtle nesting season brings out enthusiasts
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-16-04

*Turtle-watchers catch glimpse of hatchlings' emergence
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-16-04

*Taking steps to keep the port safe
-Florida Times Union, 8-16-04

*Shrimpers hunker in shop and recall Hugo's devastation
-Charleston Post and Courier, 8-15-04

*Hurricane Charley left Beaufort County largely unscathed
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-15-04

*Charley passes, but tourism affected
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 8-15-04

*Insurers brace for Charley; rates should stay same
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-15-04

*South Carolina shores up for Charley
-Charleston Post and Courier, 8-14-04

*Local residents say they are ready to take on hurricane
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-14-04

*In an effort to increase base security, some waterways around Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort soon will be off limits to boaters
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-14-04

*ST. HELENA ISLAND: Gullah/Geechee chieftess says in Switzerland that violations of self-determination taking place in Lowcountry
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 8-14-04

*Cumberland Island closed to weekend visitors
*Jacksonville has escaped the wrath of Hurricane Charlie
-Florida Times Union, 8-14-04

*Port St. Joe city commissioners met last Thursday in a special meeting to discuss a proposal to run sewer to Cape San Blas almost to the gates of St. Joseph Peninsula State Park
-Port St. Joe Star, 8-12-04

*Big Bend groups on hand for recovery effort
-Tallahassee Democrat, 8-14-04

*Beaufort County prepares for approaching hurricane Charlie
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-13-04

*Wind doesn't stop Eastern Surfing Association opener at Bethune Beach
-Daytona News Journal, 8-13-04

*Bonnie bypasses region, bringing relief to residents
*Hydroponic sea oats save dunes
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-13-04

*Big Bend spared Bonnie's bluster
-Tallahassee Democrat, 8-13-04

*Bonnie, Charley expected to bring heavy rain, wind to low country
*State officials have postponed a public hearing about a permit to move a barge landing site
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-12-04

*Plans to swap beach access to pave the way for new oceanfront development was endorsed by a city advisory board
-Daytona News Journal, 8-12-04

*Destin to Apalachicola battens down for hurricane Bonnie
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-12-04

*New fishing events added to Destin’s October Rodeo
-Destin Log, 8-11-04

*Blocked boat landing riles Lady's Island residents
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-10-04

*Tropical Storm Bonnie expected to head toward gulf states
-Florida Times Union, 8-10-04

*Developer plans 2 new beachside towers in the South Atlantic Avenue area
-Daytona News Journal, 8-10-04

*Book Review: Banana Republic: A Year in the Heart of Myrtle Beach
-Savannah Morning News, 8-7-04

*Beach house has colorful past
-Fernandina Beach News Leader, 8-6-04

*Scientists search Florida's coral reefs for cures
*Florida's deep-sea reefs largely unexplored
-Daytona News Journal, 8-8-04

*Bacteria levels high at Alligator Point
-Tallahassee Democrat, 8-8-04

*Rumors of alligators taking over the May River are running wild, but the experts say their presence is normal and nothing to fear
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-7-04

*Lulled by the calm of a century with no major hurricanes, the Georgia Coast may want to look a little harder at what could happen if older history repeated itself
-Brunswick News, 8-6-04

*Tybee looks beyond the beach; city plans to map its green spaces and preserve them
-Savannah Morning News, 8-5-04

*Mickler's Landing Beach gets lifeguard
-St. Augustine Record, 8-5-04

*Water warnings for coast in Taylor County Florida
-Tallahassee Democrat, 8-6-04

*A weekend swimmer at Hunting Island State Park was rescued from the high winds and riptides created by Hurricane Alex. But there was no savior for the nearly 3 feet of beach the storm took with it
*It turns out that what you long thought to be true is true: Mosquitoes prefer biting some people more than other
-Beaufort Gazette, 8-5-04

*Scientist and environmentalist takes over Marineland management
-St. Augustine Record, 8-4-04

*More than four months behind schedule, the Johnson Bayou Bridge reopened to through traffic, though the project is not finished
-Panama City News Herald, 8-4-04

*The St. Marys Kingfish Classic is here and so are the fish
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian

*Aircraft carrier Oriskany sinking delayed; new window of September set for reef
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-4-04

*A group that wants Hilton Head Island to build bigger beach dunes is asking for 30 minutes to make its case
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-3-04

*Coast Guard cautions boaters against choppy waters as hurricane season sets in
-Savannah Morning News, 8-3-04

*The season's first tropical depression was upgraded Sunday to a tropical storm named Alex springs to life south of Charleston
-Charleston Post and Courier, 8-2-04

*Hilton Head Island soon will learn whether time-share projects generate more traffic than the town government thinks they do
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-2-04

*Jekyll Island residents fear unbridled growth; growth is needed, resort overseers say
-Atlanta Journal Constitution, 8-1-04

 *86-pound, 8-ounce cobia caught in the Broad River by Ken Weiss of Sheldon and Atlanta on May 8, with guide Doug Gertis of Beaufort, is the Palmetto State's new state record
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 8-1-04

*Dredging work to deepen Brunswick's ship channel will resume in coming weeks after a two-year lull
-Brunswick News, 7-31-04

*National Marine Fisheries Service shut down the commercial fishery July 1 for deepwater grouper species after anglers met the annual quota by June. It was the first time the 1.02-million-pound quota was reached; prices may rise
-Pensacola News Journal, 8-1-04

*Low-speed winds brewing near the Bahamas could mean a rainy weekend and dangerous tides along South Carolina's coastal areas
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-31-04

*Beware of the big seafood rip-off, the problem of illegal substitution or mislabeling of seafood in restaurants and markets.  Use http://www.fishbase.org for in-depth technical info. Go to http://www.simplyseafood.com for commercial help
-Carolina Morning News, 7-31-04

*American Beach lacks design protections
-Fernandian Beache News Leader, 7-30-04

*Own a piece of paradise, Amelia Island still reigns as queen of unspoiled islands
*Pilot whale washes ashore at Ponte Vedra Beach
-Florida Times Union, 7-31-04

*U.S. Commerce Department slapped new tariffs on more than $1.6 billion worth of shrimp from Thailand, India, Ecuador and Brazil
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-30-04

*RIDGELAND: Newly established board will get update on county's effort to develop deepwater shipping terminal
-Carolina Morning News, 7-30-04

*Pygmy sperm whale found stranded on the beach at Little St. Simons Island Wednesday was euthanized by wildlife biologists
-Brunswick News, 7-29-04

*Thousands of finger mullet found dead
-Carolina Morning News, 7-29-04

*New Mexico Beach Dredge Arrives
-Port St. Joe Star, 7-29-04

*Cumberland Harbour requested a variance to build six 150-foot, 10-story condominium buildings with under-building parking. The 180-unit proposal was denied by the St. Marys Planning Commission
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 7-27-04

*Construction of a new swing-span bridge between Sullivan's Island and Mount Pleasant would require the closure of the Ben Sawyer Memorial Bridge for at least a year
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-27-04

*New park and public boat ramp will soon grace Brunswick's waterfront beneath the Sidney Lanier Bridge next year
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-26-04

*Officials plan to meet with Sullivan's Island and Mount Pleasant officials today to discuss the future of the ailing Ben Sawyer Memorial Bridge, opposed to the construction of a fixed-span bridge
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-26-04

*Officials and environmentalists are criticizing a nonprofit group that ranks clean beaches
-Daytona News Journal, 4-26-04

*Summertime and mosquitoes are busy
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-26-04

*A barge anchored in Inlet Creek near Sullivan's Island capsized and sank Saturday morning, spilling diesel fuel
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-25-04

*Jellyfish make their arrival along Gulf coast
-Destin Log, 7-24-04

*About 270 concrete reef structures were deposited into St. Helena Sound on Thursday as part of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources' inshore reef program
-Carolina Morning News, 7-23-04

*Health officials lifted a swimming advisory for Tybee beaches Friday after waters there passed follow-up bacterial test
-Savannah Morning News, 7-24-04

*The St. Marys Railway is now open to customers after completing months of restoration
-Florida Times Union, 7-24-04

*Thursday Kingfish started biting and the timing couldn't have been better for those competing in the BellSouth Greater Jacksonville Kingfish Tournament
-Florida Times Union, 7-23-04

*Eastpoint Marina Plan Approved
*Apalachicola’s Waterfronts Florida committee is seeking public input to its plan for revitalizing the city’s working waterfront
-Apalachicola Times, 7-22-04

* A group says it might have discovered a missing hydrogen bomb that the Air Force accidentally dropped off the Georgia coast more than 45 years ago
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-22-04

*Rare Gervais beaked whale rescued near St. Lucie Inlet
-Daytona News Journal, 7-22-04

*Building limit upsets Perdido Key landowners
*New Pensacola Bay bridge still stuck in planning stage
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-22-04

*Daniel Island stays on list of port growth study sites
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-21-04

*Beaufort Waterway Commission members have a slew of ideas to lure local and traveling boaters to spend more time in Beaufort, but most are contingent upon plans for a public-access day dock in the Beaufort Downtown Marina
-Beaufort Gazette, 7-21-04

*Unknown nest of turtles emerges as season's first
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online,m 7-21-04

*Hard-to-find kingfish are playing it cool
-Florida Times Union, 7-20-04

*Turtle volunteers replace poached eggs
-Daytona News Journal, 7-20-04

*Federal officials halt commercial harvest of grouper
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 7-15-04

*Carrabelle shrimp industry gone; last of the Carrabelle shrimp houses close down
-Apalachicola Times, 7-15-04

*The busiest beach ramp in Volusia County soon could be closed for the rest of the summer as construction crews renovate State Road A1A
-Daytona News Journal, 7-15-04

*The new dredge should be en route to Mexico Beach
*S.S. Vamar formally dedicated as Florida's ninth underwater archaeological preserve
-Port St. Joe Star, 7-15-04

*Charleston's cruise ship business is growing
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-14-04

*Volusia may raise visitor beach driving tolls
-Daytona News Journal, 7-14-04

*County steps up efforts to snuff turtule disturbing beach lights
-Daytona News Journal, 7-14-04

*Further meetings planned for discussion of ConocoPhillips terminal proposed for 11 miles south of Dauphin Island
-Duphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 7-13-04

*Gullah's story worth

*Mayor Tom Peeples has rejected a request from a group of Hilton Head Island residents and business owners who want the town to build up the island's dunes system to guard against storms
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-13-04

*ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA -- Why anyone would want to ban surfing at Tom Renick Park
-Daytona News Journal, 7-13-04

*Seville Quarter's 10th annual Crab Cake Cook-off
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-13-04

telling, preservationist's efforts highlight need to protect culture's future
*Some vacationers may find themselves unintentionally bending beach rules
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-12-04

*Unshelling the shrimp import duel
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Regiester, 7-11-04

*Folly aims to limit business district
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-11-04

*Community forges ahead to preserve its  Gullah island legacy
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-11-04

*Authorities urge beachgoers to practice caution when swimming
-Brunswick News, 7-10-04

*The City Commission will be discussing adding a referendum vote to the ballot in November to ban boats from being parked on people's yards year round
-St. Augustine Record, 7-11-04

*Debris from the old Fuller Warren Bridge in downtown Jacksonville will be disposed at an undetermined site on land, rather than dumped in the St. Johns River
-Florida Times Union, 7-10-04

*Rivers, bays can be as deadly as Gulf
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-10-04

*Port Royal planning for ports property
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 7-8-04

*Shrimpers trying to survive
-Brunswick News, 7-8-04

*Charleston County park officials plan to start construction on a $1.2 million expansion of the controversial Cooper River Marina by year's end
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-8-04

*Steps under way to reopen Hunting Island Lighthouse
*The old bridge over the Broad River has moved one step closer to becoming a fishing spot
-Beaufort Gazette, 7-8-04

*Incorporation of St. Simons and Sea islands as a city drawing ire
-Brunswick News, 7-7-04

*Population Growth for Duval and St. Johns counties
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 7-7-04

*Volusia to consider study on beach renourishment
-Daytona News Journal, 7-8-04

*U.S. panel punishes Asian shrimp imports
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 7-7-04

*Pensacola Bay Bridge choices to stay at four, replacement option to be picked in December
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-8-04

*U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday said China and Vietnam had illegally dumped hundreds of millions of dollars in shrimp into the United States, must pay tariffs as high as 112 percent on shrimp they sell in the United States
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-7-04

*Bush administration on Tuesday proposed tariffs on shrimp from China and Vietnam, finding that exporters have been dumping shrimp in the United States at artificially low prices
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-7-04

*Plans to bring old World War II Navy ships to Brunswick for dismantling have run into a snag
*Secrets of Jekyll
-Brunswick News, 7-6-04

*Some members of a Jacksonville Beach building height study committee began questioning their allegiance last week to a height limit referendum that they had supported
-Florida Times Union, 7-7-04

*A mass grave of more than 200 gopher tortoises, expertly and illegally butchered for their meat, was found in a residential area of Leesburg
-Daytona News Journal, 7-7-04

*Trash on beach is nothing to celebrate
-St. Augustine Record, 7-6-04

*Beach restoration chances good, unprepared projects could aid Navarre Beach
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-6-04

*Beachgoers beware: Rip currents, rip tides and shoreline obstacles are the real sharks out to get you
-Savannah Morning News, 7-5-04

*Hammerhead shark sighting off Pensacola Beach gives swimmers temporary scare
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-5-04

*Beach season brings warnings for swimmers
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-4-05

*Design firm seeking ideas for Port Royal waterfront
-Beaufort Gazette, 7-4-05

*County spends $1.3 million annually to fight pesky mosquitos
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 7-4-04

*Plan makes port more competitive
-Brunswick News, 7-3-04

*Patrols watching St. Johns boaters
-Florida Times Union, 7-4-04

*Dredging plans for Apalachicola - Chattahoochee - Flint (ACF) river system  under fire
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-4-04

*Sea turtle nesting is down significantly this year ­ by more than 60 percent in Horry and Georgetown counties
*Pluff mud is the superfine sediments that accumulate and form a "sticky goo" along coastal marshes, can act like quicksand
-Coastal Observer, Pawleys Island

*Hotels, beaches packed for the Fourth
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 7-3-04

*Mosquito bites are back
-Florida Times Union, 7-3-04

*The new Jacksonville Beach Fishing Pier is not ready for the public yet, but fireworks will be shot off from the end of it on Saturday night
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 7-2-04

*Flagler beaches rate at top in water quality
-Daytona News Journal, 7-3-04

*Weekend traffic to set record, tourism officials busy holiday
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-2-04

*A long-simmering debate about the planned demolition of Jacksonville's old Fuller Warren Bridge and to dump debris into St. Johns Riveris gaining new public interest
-Florida Times Union, 7-2-04

*Sunshine Network to Show “Mullet Madness” Documentary
-Apalachicola Times, 7-1-04

*Kiawah Island may limit home sizes
*Lightning kills watercraft rider on Cooper River
-Charleston Post, 7-1-04

*The water along Hilton Head Island's beaches has received a clean bill of health so far this year, state officials say
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-1-04

*Controversial beach nourishment project that would add 80-100 feet of beach and would protect upland homes, businesses and infrastructure in Destin and Walton County is almost a certainty
*Beaches closed during salvage
*Captains’ snapper limits could get tighter
-Destin Log, 6-30-04

*Scallop season opens today
-Port St. Joe Star, 7-1-04

*Formosan termites, wood-eating pests whose capacity for damage is nearly mythic in parts of the South, have found their way to Jacksonville
-Florida Times Union, 6-30-04

*More parks, picnic tables and natural landscaping along State Road A1A from Crescent Beach south to the Flagler County line would be nice
-St. Augustine Record, 6-30-04

*Old ship joins Volusia's artificial reef system fleet
-Daytona News Record, 6-30-04

*Crossing the Garcon Point Bridge will cost 50 cents more, but crossing the Navarre Beach Bridge will be free as of Thursday
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-30-04

*Jacksonville Port Authority is moving ahead with plans to erect a new cruise terminal adjacent to Sisters Creek on the Northside
-Florida Times Union, 6-29-04

*Significantly fewer turtles have nested on Hilton Head Island beaches so far this season than in past years, but experts aren't worried
*Clean Beaches Council released its annual list of clean and healthy beaches Friday, and only one South Carolina beach, Isle of Palms,  made the cut
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-28-04

*A company specializing in luxury apartments and townhouses is seeking to transfer "density rights" to an Amelia Island parcel of land for condominiums
-Fernandina Beach News Leader, 6-25-04

*St. Augustine Alligator Farm offers unique opportunity to zoo workers
-Florida Times Union, 6-28-04

*U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is building a 4-acre bird island at the mouth of the Savannah River in South Carolina waters
-Savannah Morning news, 6-27-04

*Seafood processors in Brunswick and elsewhere in the nation say Americans will pay more for shrimp at the dinner table if the commercial fishing industry gets its way
-Brunswck News, 6-26-04

*A basic baitfish lesson: menhaden ( aka pogeys and chokers)
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 6-25-04

*Pickings will be slim for scallop season; scallop season in St. Joseph Bay begins July 1 and runs through Sept. 10
-Bill which would provide access to federally-backed flood insurance to homeowners on Cape San Blas and Indian Pass still breathes, but progressively on life support as the clock ticks on this year's Congress
*Red tide lilely culpret indeaths of 107 bottlenose dolphins in the Panhandle during March and April, 2004
-Port St. Joe Star, 6-24-04

*BLUFFTON -- A dock proposed next to the public boat landing in the Buckingham neighborhood has area residents banding together to fight the structure
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-25-04

*Sea kayaking riding a wave of popularity
-Savannah Morning News, 6-25-04

*Jacksonville Beach wins cleanliness recognition from the Clean Beaches Council
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 6-25-04

*$76.8 million contract awarded to rehabilitate the aging Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine
-St Augustine Record, 6-23-04

*Shark fishing draws anglers into the Gulf
-Destin Log, 6-23-04

Authorities prep for hurricane
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-23-04

*Jekyll plan for five stories of beachfront condominiums sparks concerns
*Coastal historian,Patricia Barefoot, enriches others with her work
-Brunswick News, 6-22-04

*Jacksonville Beach hosts annual lifeguard skills challenge
-Florida Times Union, 6-23-04

*Safety flags have been removed from most state parks, which should prevent future lawsuits like one recently filed by a 2002 drowning victim's family, officials say
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-22-04

*County officials are making tracks toward creating a habitat conservation plan for Flagler's 10.7 miles of driveable beach
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-23-04

*State officials say they will tone down the decorative lighting on the new Cooper River bridge
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-21-04

*South Carolina lawmakers failed to pass legislation to regulate isolated freshwater wetlands in the recently completed session, so special interest groups, lawmakers and state officials say they will try to hammer out a compromise
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-21-04

*State officials say they will tone down the decorative lighting on the new Cooper River bridge
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-21-04

*South Carolina lawmakers failed to pass legislation to regulate isolated freshwater wetlands in the recently completed session, so special interest groups, lawmakers and state officials say they will try to hammer out a compromise
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-21-04

*Big catches elude shrimpers
-Brunswick News, 6-20-04

*Fernandina Beach Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to delay and revise a proposed master plan for the Amelia River waterfront
-Fernandia Beach News Leader, 6-18-04

*Area shrimpers watch livelihoods slip away, Glut of cheaper imports, higher diesel prices take toll on industry
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-20-04

*Drownings raise questions about flag
-Walton Sun, 6-19-04

*S.C. Department of Natural Resources Board on Friday extended a lease with a company that uses a portion of state-owned Morgan Island as a rhesus monkey colony
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-19-04

*Saltwater is creeping into Hilton Head Island's groundwater supply at a rate faster than previously thought
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-19-04

*Man was swimming off Tybee beach when he disappeared Thursday afternoon
-Savannah Morning New, 6-19-04

*Dauphin Island officials have sent a letter to federal and state officials raising concerns about a proposed ConocoPhillips liquefied natural gas terminal to be located about 12 miles south of the inhabited part of the island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 6-17-04

*Mid-Bay Bridge toll may go up
*Like it or not, sargassum arrives on local beaches
*Beach patrols helping, despite drowning
-Destin Log, 6-16-04

*Marineland project tries to balance development, preservation
-St. Augustine Record, 6-18-04

*In search of the bait which drives and economy
-Port St. Joe Star, 6-17-04

*As a flotilla of tall ships sails into Charleston Harbor today, South Carolina's addition to this fabled fleet, Spirit of South Carolina, remains a landlocked skeleton of timber
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-17-04

*Condo explosion coming to Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 6-16-04

*Beach renourishment project: What's best for community?
-Destin Log, 6-16-04

*Man drowns in gulf after he 'disobeyed the flag'
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 6-16-04

*Sullivan's Island. tightens its leash on canines
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-16-04

*Cobia program seeks to restock area fish
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-16-04

*Armed with a new marketing campaign, Georgia shrimpers say they are optimistic about the upcoming shrimp season, which opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday
-Brunswick News, 5-15-04

*Charles Towne Landing's reproduction 17th century trading vessel, the Adventure, sank Monday
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-5-04

*Even critics in Hampton, Va., are stunned by the rapid benefits the city is seeing from having done away last year with personal property taxes on boats
*South Carolina boating industry association's tax-reduction plan for boat owners went down for the count once again in the 2004 legislative session
-Coast News, 6-14-04

*The push for St Simons Island and Sea Island independence continues
-Brunswick News, 6-14-04

*Erosion threatens Indian shell midden sites on Edisto
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-14-04

*Sullivan's Island to curtail dogs: Proposed curb on midday beach visits has some owners growling
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-13-04

*Area boaters and transient vessels cruising the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway are a tempting source of untapped tourist dollars in downtown Beaufort
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-13-04

*"Low-intensity condos" might be built along the Amelia River waterfront, a city real estate consultant said, but "nothing high-intensity like Destin
-Fernandian Beach News-Leader, 5-11-04

*Between 30 and 50 manatees, including some calves, use the Wakulla and St. Marks rivers, putting actual state manatee speed zones in place in Northwest Florida could become more difficult
-Tallahassee Democrat, 5-13-04

*The offshore commercial shrimp season opens Tuesday amid the usual wash of bad news for the beleaguered industry
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-12-04

*Sail Jacksonville Festival casts weekend of maritime events on St. Johns
-Florida Times Union, 6-12-04

*Resident supports renourishment plan in South Walton
*Destin Log, 6-12-04

*Coastal council presents environmental game plan
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-11-04

*Residents living near Buckwalter Parkway and in Sun City Hilton Head have new routes to take in the event of a hurricane evacuation
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-11-04

*In an effort to reduce the deaths of sea turtles, which have reached record numbers over the past month, shrimpers along the Georgia coast are prohibited from fishing at night until July 8.
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 6-10-04

*Kentucky boy bitten by shark in Daytona Beach Shores
-Florida Times Union, 6-11-04

*Boy, 8, suffers 1st shark bite of season
-Daytona News Journal, 6-11-04

*Opening day for shimping in Mobile Bay
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 6-11-04

*New Smyrna Beach woman sues county to stop beach driving
*For some reason, the Volusia County Commission made it illegal to gig any kind of fish but flounder. On Wednesday the wildlife commission voted unanimously to add sheepshead to the rule that allows flounder gigging here
-Daytona News Journal, 6-10-04

*Just rebuild our beach, resident says
-Destin Log, 6-9-04

*Soldiers standing guard on beaches during G-8 Summit
-Brunswick News, 6-8-04

*Spivey pulls in a 5-pound sheepshead, Horne "lures" in trout, redfish
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 6-7-04

*Second annual Sail Jacksonville maritime festival this weekend: 11 tall ships will visit the city. Events include a parade and tours
-Florida Times Union, 6-9-04

*Neptune Beach asks state OK for new handicap ramps
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 6-4-04

*Parking gripes grow with beach
-Pensacola Beach News, 6-7-04

*The South Carolina parks department still hopes to get federal money for its estimated $9 million beach renourishment project at Hunting Island State Park, although the General Assembly already has agreed to pay for most of the work
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-3-04

*Adding 80 feet of sand to east Destin's beaches, beachfront resident Patricia Young says, would sell out homeowners' property rights to the profits of the tourism industry
*Are beaches safer one year after drownings?
-Destin Log, 6-5-04

Gone to the Beach - back soon.

*Some fear Lake Moultrie has glut of gators
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-28-04

*The South Carolina Senate gave overwhelming support to Hunting Island State Park on Thursday, following the House in overturning a veto by Gov. Mark Sanford that would have stalled plans to save the island's disappearing beaches
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-28-04

*The Gullah Festival, now in its 18th year, returns to Beaufort's Waterfront Park today and runs through Sunday
*Governor's Hunting Island sand veto was short-sighted
-Carolina Morning News, 5-28-04

*Pensacola Beach safety officials will aturate the beach with every available lifeguard over Memorial Day weekend
-Pensacola Beach News, 5-28-04

*Hours after Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed spending $5 million to slow beach erosion on Hunting Island State Park, the state House overrode his decision, and the Senate may be poised to follow suit as early as today
*Ten months after first saying the state should shutter the Port of Port Royal, Gov. Mark Sanford can now make it happen simply by signing his name
*Government officials look to protect Gullah-Geechee culture
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-27-04

*$2.8 million project stabilizes the 196-year-old Fort Jackson historic site from erosion and tides
-Savannah Morning News, 5-27-04

*It's been more than a century since a major hurricane came ashore in Volusia or Flagler counties, and 13 years since Hurricane Andrew barreled through South Florida
-Daytona News Journal, 5-27-04

*Environmental Protection Agency and the National Weather Service have designed a new scale to help assess the dangers of exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 5-26-04

*18-year-old snags 9-foot bull shark in Gulf
-Destin Log, 5-26-04

*The Florida Department of Community Affairs has green-lighted the WindMark Beach Phase II development
-Port St. Joe Star, 5-27-04

*Federal government plans to give Coastal Georgia Historical Society  full ownership of the St. Simons Island Lighthouse
*The Georgia Historical Society
*St. Simons Island
-Brunswick News, 5-25-04

*Group wants plaque for torpedoed ship
-Florida Times Union, 5-26-04

*Whatever the decision on beach driving in Flagler County, it will be costly
-Daytona News Journal, 5-26-04

*Beach traffic: Worst is yet to come
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-26-04

*Transferring ownership to clear way for shoring up Morris Island structure
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-24-04

*Glynn and McIntosh counties are receiving assistance from outside agencies as they prepare their annual battles during mosquito season
-Brunswick News, 5-24-04

*Boy bitten on leg by shark near Fifth Street
-St. Augustine Record, 5-24-04

*South Carolina DNR officers ready as boating season gears up
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-24-04

*Beaufort County Council today is set to consider guidelines that would allow barge landings to operate on Daufuskie Island, opening the door to a Savannah-based barge company that wants to dock next to the island's public boat landing
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-24-04

*Beach driving and management is topic of a Flagler County Commission meeting
-Daytona News Journal, 5-23-04

*Florida environmental groups are opposing a request from Eglin Air Force Base to conduct bomb tests 17 to 28 miles south of Santa Rosa Island
-Pensacola Beach News, 5-24-04

*WWII landing ship to visit Charleston
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-23-04

*Effort to fund a $3.9-million project to provide municipal water and sewer services to American Beach is back to the drawing board
-Fernandian Beach News Leader, 5-21-04

*National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers released a report Thursday saying that an "increase in abundance" of lionfish off the East Coast is irreversible
-Daytona News Journal, 5-22-04

*Horseshoe crabs found mating along beaches
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-22-04

*Horseshoe crab mating season peaks
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-22-04

*Shrimpers caught without Turtle Exclusion Device, Coast Guard seizes boat after the officials increased monitoring
-Savannah Morning News, 5-22-04

*Senate amends boat-tax bill, would cap the tax at "not less than 4 percent of the fair market value of the boat."
-Coast News, 5-22-04

*G-8 Summit hasn't sparked rentals
-Brunswick News, 5-21-04

*Cruise terminal faces rocky road
-Florida Times Union, 5-22-04

*A pumped-up advertising budget and a wider range of publications getting those dollars is spotlighting the Beaches as a destination in an effort to increase tourism at the Beach
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 5-21-04

*The U.S. Coast Guard Friday unveiled a voluntary inspection program for operators of popular beachfront parasailing rides
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-21-04

*Officials hope recreational anglers will help control flathead catfish population
-Tallahassee Democrat, 5-22-04

*A bill dealing only with isolated freshwater wetlands was passed on a voice vote Thursday by the South Carolina State Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-21-04

*Saltwater Fishing Trends
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 5-21-04

*More dead turtles wash ashore
*Casino boat docks in Savannah
*As the Tybee readies for its annual Beach Bum Parade, leaders stress conservation in order to avoid exceeding its aquifer's limits
-Savannah Morning News, 5-21-04

*Judge orders dissolution of island property owners' board
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register 5-20-04

*Sea turtle season for laying and hatching begins May 1st and ends October 31st, although some nests may not hatch until into November
-Port St. Joe Star, 5-20-04

*Plantation community of St. George Island, developers of Resort Village have agreed on a plan that puts an end to commercial development within the 58-acre tract
-Apalachicola Times, 5-20-0-4

*Affordable boat storage slips away for many Marinas are filling up, charging more and reoutfitting to serve a growing clientele of even bigger boats

*Legislature OKs $5M for Hunting Island to prevent beach erosion
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-20-04

*Sea Island chief backs island city
-Brunswick News, 5-19-04

*The federal government is wasting time and tens of thousands of dollars of public money by considering impractical sites for port expansion, state port leaders charged Tuesday
*Sullivan's Island to tighten leash law
*Stolen yachts reveal lack of security
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-19-04

*State gives $5 million; Hunting Island renourishment project won't begin until 2005
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-19-04

*Off shore catches include 30-pound amberjack, red snapper
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian

*Sea turtle deaths approach record
*Bringing Home the submarine USS Razorback
-Florida Times Union, 5-19-04

*State promotes Florida shrimp
-Tallahassee Democrae, 5-19-04

*Gelegotis bridge over Stono River is dedicated
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-18-04

*State agency says it's not interested in selling park but county wants to make sure it's protected from erosion
-Carolina Morning News, 5-18-04

*Some boaters who have used the county's North End Boat Ramp on Amelia Island at low tide have discovered rocks below the river's surface that have scraped boat bottoms and chewed outboard motors
*Fernandian Beach News Leader, 5-14-04

*NOAA forecasters are predicting an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season
-St Augustine Record, 5-18-04

*Volusia County officials haven't decided on a new gathering place for the lifeguards and Beach Patrol officers who are charged with overseeing the surf
-Daytona News Journal, 5-18-04

*New weight limits on the Ben Sawyer Memorial Bridge prohibit the heaviest fire trucks from Mount Pleasant and Sullivan's Island
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-16-04

*Restaurateur drowned at the beach near Hilton Oceanfront Resort on Saturday afternoon
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-16-04

*State won't sell Hunting Island
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-15-04

*St. Simons and Sea islands residents attempt to spread the word about why there should be a second city in Glynn County
-Brunswick News, 5-14-04

*Construction on new Jacksonville Beach pier moves meticulously along
-Florida Times Union, 4-15-04

*Pile Driving Contracting Association

*Bureaucrats charged with the health of the Indian River Lagoon system heard good news and bad this week
-Daytona News Journal, 4-15-04

*Coastal population surge raises hurricane evacuation worries
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 5-14-04

*'Very rough' surf expected in Gulf Red flags warning of danger are likely to fly all weekend
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-15-04

*Beaufort County leaders want to make sure Hunting Island State Park doesn't erode into the ocean, and that might mean taking it over from the state
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-14-04

*Three swimmers believed to have been caught in rip currents have died over the past two days off the South Florida coast
-Florida Times Union, 5-13-04

*Artificial Reefs Aid Local Economy
-Port St. Joe Star, 5-13-04

*Shrimper workshop on trade assistance set
-Apalachicola Times, 5-13-04

*An independent city made up of St. Simons and Sea islands would be a viable one, according to the University of Georgia
-Brunswick News, 5-12-04

*Vinson Institute of Government has concluded island residents would pay lower property taxes if St. Simons Island and Sea Island were to form a city government
-Florida Times Union, 5-13-04

*New color-coded flag system outlined in a series of informational signs at beach access points in Jacksonville Beach notifies beach goers of potentially dangerous surf conditions
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 5-12-04

*Bridge pilings dumped to start artificial reef off Flagler coast
-Daytona News Journal, 5-13-04

*The Artificial Reefs of Volusia County, Florida

*Sand and Pelican Islands update
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 5-12-04

*Dixon trying to improve beach safety
-Destin Log, 5-12-04

*Florida team working to understand rip currents
-Daytona News Journal, 5-10-04

*Mobile Bay temporarily closed to protect young shrimp
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 5-7-04

*Beach crowd leaves more than footprints
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-10-04

*Two sea turtle activists have notified Flagler County that they plan to sue to ban vehicles from the area's 10.7 miles of drivable beaches
-Daytona News Journal, 5-9-04

*'America's Tall Ship' visits Savannah Coast Guard vessel Eagle pays courtesy call this weekend
-Savannah Morning News, 5-8-04

*Blue sky likely to draw crowds to beach
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-8-04

*Hilton Head Island won't bring back its one-year beach passes, but it will give refunds to those who want to turn in their two-year passes before the second year starts
*Average turtle nesting season expected
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-7-04

*Edisto Beach State Park: New Interpretive Center promotes and demonstrates how to tread lighter on the Earth
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 5-7-04

*After months of inspection delays in Tampa, gambling vessel departs for Savannah as owners keep quiet
-Savannah Morning News, 5-6-04

*Nearly a dozen tall ships will sail into Jacksonville, Fla., and Charleston as part of a June race up the U.S. East Coast
*G-8 Summit will force closing of three Georgia marinas and lead to waterway restrictions along the ICW near St. Simons and Jekyll islands
-Coast News

*Concerned citizens group will kick off a petition drive Saturday in support of the proposed height limit referendum in Jacksonville Beach
*Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 5-5-04

*Gulf hurricanes brew and strike quickly, expert warns
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-6-04

*Tide of tourists rolling in
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 5-5-04

*The sinking of the Charleston-based sportfishing boat, "Physical Therapy," remains a mystery
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-5-04

*University of Georgia's Marine Extension Service founded the Coastal Georgia Adopt-A-Wetland program in Chatham County in 2002, and expanded the program into Glynn County last year
-Brunswick News, 5-4-04

*No sign of missing boater
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 5-4-04

*Conservancy to study Port Royal Sound
*Sea Pines designs disaster plan
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-3-04

*Debris from old Broad and Chechessee River bridges improving reefs
*'Greenprint' maps Beaufort County preservation: Drawing shows where $28 million will be spent to buy land
-Carolina Morning News, 5-3-04

*Nine-foot alligator caught near East Lathrop
-Savannah Morning News, 5-3-04

*Conservancy to study Port Royal Sound
*Sea Pines designs disaster plan
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-3-04

*Debris from old Broad and Chechessee River bridges improving reefs
*'Greenprint' maps Beaufort County preservation: Drawing shows where $28 million will be spent to buy land
-Carolina Morning News, 5-3-04

*Nine-foot alligator caught near East Lathrop
-Savannah Morning News, 5-3-04

*State cash will clear eyesore : Sunken boat has been at dock a year
-Brunswick News, 5-1-04

*Walton County's new flag warning system would not have kept a man who was verbally warned by a beach vendor to get out of the water from drowning
-Walton Sun, 5-1-05

*Boating officers hit rough seas
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-1-04

*Some headwater creeks of May River show signs of stress
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-30-04

*The Chatham County Commission today takes up the issue of Terra Firma, a marsh hammock on Wilmington Island
-Savannah Morning News, 4-30-04

*Developers of Satilla River Landing, a 159-acre marsh and waterfront development near Woodbine, say they're ready to break ground this June
-Brunswick News, 4-29-04

*Better beach safety saving lives
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-30-04

*Beach residents who have been around awhile know that fishing and the marine life in Little Sabine Bay has greatly improved since the bay was declared a "no wake zone"
-Pensacola Beach News, 4-29-04

*Wetlands protection measure passes in South Carolina House: isolated wetlands under 1 acre to go unregulated. Wetlands between 1 and 5 acres would need mitigation if disturbed, but wouldn't require permits from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. Disturbing wetlands 5 acres and greater would require permitse
-Brunswick News, 4-29-04

*Hilton Head Island could renovate Coligny Circle this fall
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-29-04

*Jacksonville Beach Planning Commission Monday voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council issue a moratorium on all development
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 4-28-04

*Plan would compel the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to maximize both manatee protection and recreational use of the state's waterways -- goals the environmentalists find contradictory
-Daytona News Journal, 4-29-04

*Shrimpers--Sign-Up for Benefits for Trade Adjustment by June 28
-Port St. Joe Star, 4-29-04

*Hilton Head Island is considering bringing back its one-year beach passes after several Town Council members said they didn't mean to eliminate them
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-28-04

*Ports pump up economy
-Brunswick News, 4-27-04

*Florida's turtle lighting course
-Daytona News Journal, 4-28-04

*MIRAMAR BEACH — A Virginia man drowned Monday while trying to rescue his son and daughter-in-law from a strong rip current
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 4-27-04

*Kiawah neighbors spark new preservation program
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-27-04

*Jacksonville Port Authority may build a $125 million cargo terminal at Dames Point
-Florida Times Union, 4-27-04

*Plans for a new shipping terminal at the former Charleston Naval Base rely on using existing roads and rail lines to move as many as 2,500 containers a day despite a promise to protect neighborhoods from increased traffic
*Shrimpers want public to help rock the boat to battle imports
*Now, a proposed Sullivan's Island town law would prevent that. The Wentworth home, along with 260 other historic island structures, would be protected under a proposed ordinance that would restrict demolition and home-moving permits for some buildings
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-26-04

*Hillton Head Island officials worry that a provision added to legislation aimed at protecting some of the state's isolated freshwater wetlands could eliminate the town's authority to regulate the wetlands
-Brunswick News, 4-26-04

*G-8 Summit to restrict ICW boating: Three Georgia marinas to be closed during June event
-Coast News

*The city cannot rely solely on additional tax revenue to pay for revitalization of a new waterfront district, Fernandina Beach Commissioners were told Tuesday
-Fenandina Beach News Leader, 4-22-04

*Work on the Bridge of Lions will halt and the Matanzas River will be clear of construction barges before, during and just after Jacksonville's Super Bowl
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 4-26-04

*Flagler County wants dialogue on beach driving
-Daytona News Journal, 4-24-04

*PENSACOLA BEACH -- Several near-drowning swimmers and more than 70 other people were brought to safety by beach lifeguards on Saturday
-Daytona News Journal, 4-25-04

*Dauphin "Island Watch" web site

*Pensacola Beach lifeguards faced another day of rough surf and strong rip currents Sunday assisting between 50 and 60 swimmers to shore
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-26-04

*Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has scheduled a local public workshop in Northwest Florida regarding the management of blue crabs
-Port St. Joe Star, 4-22-04

*Daytona world's Most Famous Beach
*Daytona's diversions
*Pawleys Island leisure
*Coastal Birding - on the trail of Georgia's avian habitats
*Georgia's Colonial Coast Birding Trail
-Atlanta Journal Constitution, 4-18-04

*The South Island Dredging Association missed a deadline to clean up South Beach
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-18-04

*Port Royal's Soft Shell Crab Festival debuts
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-18-04

*Dredging association misses cleanup deadline
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-18-04

*Beach growth boosts renourishment odds: A recently released Hilton Head Island beach monitoring report shows that, in 2003, most of the dry beach grew or held stable
*Hilton Head Island's beaches have held up better than expected since the 1997 renourishment project
*Budget cut delays beach renourishment: Hunting Island Park losing 7 to 15 feet of sand each year
*H.L. Hunley: A final farewell; crew who manned first submarine to sink warship is buried
-Carolina Morning News, 4-18-04

*Crew's catch lower than desired; G-8 Summit may force delay in start to seafood season
-Florida Times Union, 4-18-04

*Police are warning boat owners anchored in St. Augustine waters that thieves are on the prowl for new motors, equipment and vessels
-St. Augustine Record, 4-18-04

*Council on Coastal Futures' recommendations could shape its future for decades
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-17-04

*Cannonball jellyfish piling up on Hilton Head beaches after storm
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 4-17-04

*Shipways reflect Brunswick's shipbuilding past
*G-8 may force beach closings: Restrictions on boaters in waterways already in place
-Brunswick News, 4-16-04

*Nassau County Commissioners, backing away from a 50-foot wetland buffering requirement, have sent a year-old battle between area builders and the Sierra Club to a formal administrative hearing
-Fernandina Beaches Leader, 4-16-04

*Island residents and visitors won't be able to use their boats and airplanes and should expect delays on the roadways of up to an hour during the G-8 Summit on Sea Island
*Group wants to deny new permits for pollution-causing activities until Gulf Coast dolphin deaths resolved
-Florida Times Union, 4-17-04

*Destin's beaches no longer 'party central'
*Big changes anticipated in Panama City Beach area
*Beach project a success on Don Pedro Island
-Destin Log, 4-14-04

*Port Vision Coming Into Focus
*Mexico Beach Approves Purchase of New Dredge
-Port St. Joe Star, 4-15-04

*Port Royal to host Soft Shell Crab Festival on April 17
-Beaufort Gazette 4-16-04

*Boaters along portions of the Intracoastal Waterway in Georgia are almost certain to find some travel restrictions during the G-8 summit of world leaders in early June
-Coast News

*PGlynn County Health Department issued advisories Wednesday to swimmers to stay out of the water at all five Jekyll Island beaches, two on St. Simons Island and one on the south end of Sea Island after tests found high levels of bacteria
*Coast gears up for mosquito wars
-Brunswick News, 4-15-04

*Coast Guard finds boaters missing off Panhandle
-Florida Times Union, 4-16-04

*The Beach Act of 2000 required the nation's beach states to adopt uniform standards for monitoring beach-water quality
-St Augustine Record, 4-16-04

*Two whales swimming in waters about a mile and a half off Panama City Beach
-Panama City News Herald, 4-15-04

*Coast Guard seeks federal authority to control waterways during the G-8
*A voluntary, cooperative effort uses better beach water testing, but Georgia still has outdated regulations on the books
-Savannah Morning News, 4-15-03

*South Carolina boat-tax bill appears doomed for '04
*Rising pump prices hit boaters, too
*Cruisers begin slow return to ICW: Shoaling, gas prices a concern for some
-Coast News

*Red snapper season hooks anglers
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-15-03

*1st annual Mexico Beach Spring Fling and Fishing Tournament
*St. George Island Lighthouse In Peril - - Again
*1st annual Mexico Beach Spring Fling and Fishing Tournament
*Apalachicola’s Deepwater Marina thrives under new management
-Forgotten Coast Line, 4-13-04

*Charleston leaders fight Morris Island development plan
*Hunley called to men of the sea
*Lumpkin as mysterious as the Hunley he helped power
*Blacks don't always embrace Hunley story, crew funeral
Charleston Post and Courier, 4-14-04

*Soft-shell crab season a spring rite
*South Carolina State House increases isolated wetlands protection
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-14-04

*Mosquito problem resurfaces
*Little St. Simons remains a coastal treasure
-Brunswick News, 4-13-04

*Palm Valley boat ramp tied up by confusion: Corps says permit needed, county differs
-Florida Times Union , 4-14-04

DESTIN -- Some homeowners are fighting a beach restoration plan state and local officials say will protect their property from erosion, arguing it's a ploy to grab private shoreline for public use
-Daytona News Journal, 4-13-04

*There have been two sightings of leatherback sea turtles on the shores of Hilton Head Island in the past three days
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-13-04

*Georgia DNR seeks input on hammocks development
*Shrimp boat diplomacy could be industry's lifeline. Imported shrimp – mainly from Brazil, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Ecuador and India – has devastated Southeastern shrimpers
-Savannah Morning News, 4-13-04

*Silt is making the channel that serves the East River industry too shallow for the ships that service it
*After almost a year resting on the bottom of the East River, a 73-foot shrimp trawler may be on its way out of the city of Brunswick
-Brunswick News, 4-12-04

*Dolphin diseases, deaths spark broader worries
-Daytona News Journal, 4-13-04

*Bill would restrict insurance for some homes on coast
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 4-12-04

*REDFISH ROUNDUP: One fish has none, another 59, but 33 hits spot
*Beach renourishment: Who'll pay?
-Florida Times Union, 4-11-04

*Beach driving proponents rally to save tradition
-Daytona News Journal, 4-11-04

*Easter weekend keeps beach business hopping
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-11-04

*Beach emergency activity matrix approved
-Walton Sun, 4-10-04

*Bay County Tourist Development Council report lists 32 condominium projects either planned or being built in Panama City Beach, all but a handful of them at the water's edge and at least 20 stories tall
-Panama City News Herald, 4-11-04

*Computer and human error allowed the cruise ship Galaxy to illegally dock in Charleston on Wednesday, exposing shortcomings in the city's port security
*A recent court order says two multimillion dollar oceanfront houses violate a subdivision's restrictive covenants and calls for the homes to be demolished
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-9-04

*Bill closing Port of Port Royal benefits city
*Hilton Head commission weighs plan for Jenkins Island sailing center
-Brunswick News, 4-10-04

*Waddell Mariculture Center faces closure because of state budget cuts
*Wity of Beaufort's Waterway Commission is nearing the end of its preordained six-month lifespan
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 4-10-04

*Tybee bans condos on Lazaretto, encourages maritime use on island's 'gateway
-Savannah Morning News, 4-10-04

*Spring breakers flocking to Golden Isles
-Brunswick News, 4-9-04

*Panhandle beaches take steps to curb drownings
-Daytona News Journal, 4-10-04

*After three years of work, retired Vice Adm. Jack Fetterman is preparing to present his proposal for a $20 million maritime museum and research center to the Pensacola City Council
Pensacola News Journal, 4-10-04

*Ship strands hundreds in Charleston
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-8-04

*Money to renourish Hunting Island State Park was swept from the state budget Wednesday by a Senate subcommittee
*Home sought for sailing, rowing center
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 4-9-04

*The Galaxy was forced offshore by the U.S. Coast Guard for failing to file its manifest paperwork on time
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-8-04

*A new, multimillion dollar beachfront house in North Forest Beach might be razed for violating neighborhood land-use covenants dating back to the 1950s
-Carolina Morning News, 4-8-04

*Captains ready boats for fishing
-Destin Log, 4-7-04

*Dolphin Deaths Subside; Extend to Bay's Redfish
-Port St. Joe Star, 4-8-04

*Invasive plants threaten coast
-Brunswick News, 4-5-04

*Tourist railway to connect St. Marys, Kingsland
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 4-5-04

*U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney said Tuesday he will try to expedite Volusia County's application to renew the federal take permit that allows for beach driving
-Daytona News Journal, 4-6-04

*A leatherback sea turtle tangled in the line of a crab trap offshore near North Forest Beach was rescued and released Friday
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online 4-6-04

*Tourism season looks upbeat
-Brunswick News, 4-5-04

*Bowman said she filed a beach-driving case with Shirley Reynolds against the state, challenging Volusia County's right to derive income by allowing driving on the beach. The state's Division of Administrative Hearing denied the case, concluding in part that authority for beach driving lies with individual counties
-Daytona News Journal, 4-6-04

*Gulf Breeze lists bridge questions
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-6-04

*Beaufort County's fleet of mosquito spraying trucks and aircraft are being geared up
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-5-04

*New book explores St. Joe's plans to remake Panhandle
-Florida Times Union, 4-5-04

*Homeowner, drivers collide on the beach at the southern end of Amelia Island
-Fernandia Beach News-Leader, 4-2-04

*A St. Augustine tradition renews itself today when the annual Blessing of the Fleet takes place in the Matanzas Bay
*The Marine Resources Council said Saturday there were 180 right whale sightings along the coast from Fernandina Beach to Miami this year
-St. Augustine Recore, 4-4-04

*Crowd Gathers at Town Meeting sponsored by the Pensacola Beach Residents & Leaseholders Association
-Pensacola Beach News, 4-3-04

*The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners sent South Beach Condominiums to the drawing board for a third time Monday near the end of a four-hour special rezoning session
*The five-flag warning system is a bad idea that even seems to have confused its creator
-Navarre Press

*Grand Lagoon Bridge project could pocket extra funding
-Panama City News Herald, 4-3-04

*Proposed resort tax may be doomed
-Destin Log, 4-3-04

*It might be time to run up the marine pest alert flag at Western Lake. On March 28, a surfer reported a sixfoot-long bull shark had come up to him in the lake
-Walton Sun, 4-3-04

*Fishing Page
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-3-04

*ConocoPhillips has applied for a permit to build a liquefied natural gas terminal about 11 miles south of Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 4-3-04

*Prices at the marine pumps are washing out some boaters
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, NBC 15, 4-3-04

*Surfers to the winner’s circle of the Eastern Surfing Association’s Southeast Regional Champion-ships March 27-29 in Sebastian Inlet, Fla.
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 04-28-04

*After months of facing an either/or choice on whether the Ortega River Boat Yard in Jacksonville would provide boat repairs or give way to condominiums, city officials received a new proposal Friday that would do both
-Florida Times Union, 4-3-04

*The 100 miles of littoral between Pensacola and Panama City is facing its toughest tourist season in years after 23 people drowned in rip currents in the Gulf of Mexico last summer.  
And already this year at least four people have drowned in rip currents along South Florida's Atlantic coast, and lifeguards have pulled swimmers from rough surf at Pensacola Beach
-Atlanta Journal Constitution, 4-2-04

*Temporary ruling: Folly woman can build seawall
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-1-04

*Ossabaw, Sandy West show how nature works
-Savannah Morning News, 4-2-04

*St. Simons Land Trust plans to turn a corner of one of the island's busiest intersections – where motorists once pumped gasoline and a painting contractor parked trucks – into a greenspace park
-Brunswick News, 4-1-04

*Forecast: 14 named storms, three intense hurricanes in 2004
-Florida Times Union, 4-2-04

*Ormond Beach gets more off-beach parking
-Daytona News Journal, 4-2-04

*The creation of an artificial reef out of the remains of the old St. George Island Bridge is about one-quarter of the way done and is proceeding according to schedule
-Apalachicola Times, 4-1-04

*May River Cleanup set for Saturday morning
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-1-04

*Alligator, snake season heating up in southeastern Georgia
-Kings Bay Periscope, 4-1-04

*Neptune Beach plans vote on height limit, 28-foot limit on homes could be raised; no building would be allowed higher than 35-feet
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 3-31-04

*Teen still missing in rough surf
*Atop the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, where sunlight streams into the glass-enclosed lantern room and temperatures can reach 150 degrees, workers are carefully installing one of the original Fresnel lenses
-Daytona News Journal, 4-1-04

*Gulf Breeze rejects 4 bridge plans
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-1-04

*A state historic preservation panel last week ranked the Cape San Blas lighthouse project high enough that it should receive a $49,600 grant in July to facilitate engineering work on the lighthouse itself
*The number of dolphins which have washed up dead on area beaches since March 10 has, as of press time, reached a staggering 106
-Port St. Joe Star, 4-1-04

*As many as 30,000 people may come to Charleston for the burial next month of the final crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-30-04

*A Jasper County port site got the thumbs-up from an environmental report critical of 10 of the nation's largest ports, including Charleston and Savannah
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-30-04

*Darien festival catches big crowds
-Brunswick News, 3-29-04

*Flagging water safety
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 3-29-04

*Users say Inter Coastal Waterway's health failing: Channels lose depth as money dries up
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-29-04

*To say that Daufuskie Island has a love-hate relationship with development is an understatement
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-29-04

*The rip currents that imperiled dozens June 8, 2003, were the deadliest in at least a decade
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 3-28-04

*A man trying to rescue two girls in rough surf was rescued Sunday by a Pensacola Beach lifeguard
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-29-04

*Audubon members say beach nourishment harmful
*Group concerned about shrimp boats rotting in Skull Creek is asking for help in removing the remains
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-28-04

*Waterways protection plan surfaces: Effort started in 1999 yields recommendations for cleaner water
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-28-04

*Close call at beach, Swimmer saved from rip current
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-28-04

*Rareness of right whale fuels rescue effort
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-26-04

*Beach restoration planning for north of Fish Haul Creek off the end of Beach City Road worries birders
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-27-04

*LIfeuards advise swimmers to beware of runouts
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 3-26-04

*Costly condos blow the roof off area real estate prices: Top seller $1.61 million; prices rising
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-27-04

*Racing to save a whale
*CAPTURING A WHALE: Jan. 7, 1880, Charleston Harbor
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-25-04

*Silt buildup hurting port business
-Brunswick News, 3-25-04

*Florida Department of Environmental Protection said a new five- flag, surf-warning system they approved this year would not be flown at Navarre Beach State Park
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-26-04

*Judge rules against Beach leaseholders
*Amendment to the Florida Department of Transportation’s appropriations bill might be the surest way to see the Navarre Bridge toll abolished this session
-Navarre Press, 3-25-04

*Funding Sought for Continued River Dredging in Apalachicola River
*The count of bottlenose dolphins which have been found dead in St. Joseph Bay and surrounding waters - from Escambia to Franklin counties - since March 10 was, as of press time, more than 85
*Mexico Beach Addresses Dredging Woes in the City Canal
-Port St. Joe Star, 3-25-04

*Beaufort Waterway Commission chair seeks more time to fulfill mission
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-25-04

*Attempts by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to step up its regulation of marsh hammocks is drawing sharp criticism
-Burnswick News, 3-24-04

*Treacherous rip currents along the Florida coast in the past week have killed at least four beachgoers
-Daytona News Journal, 3-25-04

*Gulf Breeze slams all Pensacola Bay bridge plans, make own proposals
*Dangerous surf conditions prompted red-flag warnings at area beaches Wednesday
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-25-04

*Captains look to increase snapper season this year
-Destin Log, 3-24-04

*The Port of Charleston rates a D+, according to a national environmental report card released this week
*Rescuers today will attempt to free a rare North Atlantic right whale entangled in a mess of rope several miles off the coast between Charleston and Georgetown
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-24-04

*Negotiations should be completed early next month between the Town of Port Royal and Design Collective, the Baltimore-based design firm chosen to create a plan for the town's waterfront
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-24-04

*Boat professionals are concerned the too-shallow depth in some places of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway will lead to safety and economic problems
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-24-04

*A proposal by Cumberland Harbour to add several hundred boat slips with dry dock facilities for 400 more around the St. Marys River is stirring some concern in Camden County
-Brunswick News, 3-23-04

*Budget Cuts Threatens Beach Renourishment Projects
-Golden Isles Weekend Online

*Local surfers will defend their reign as champions this weekend in the Eastern Surfing Association Southeast Regional Championships in Sebastian Inlet
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 3-24-04

*Four proposals for a new Pensacola Bay bridge and connecting roads will be up for discussion
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-24-04

*Savannah port's pollution grade: D+: GPA disputes environmental groups' assessment, saying it meets regulations
-Savannah Morning News, 3-23-04

*An unusually large number of North Atlantic right whales have made the winter trip down to the calving grounds in the waters of Georgia
-Brunswick News, 3-23-04

*Researchers try to unravel mystery of disappearing eels
-Florida Times Union, 3-21-04

*Feeney letter irks beach driving supporters
-Daytona News Journal, 3-21-04

*Water safe today, but aquifer's future murky
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-21-04

*No trace of red tide found in recent dolphin deaths
-Panama City News Herald, 3-20-04

*Plan for downtown day dock revived
*Jasper still seeks a port of its own
*Navigation lights under the U.S. 278 bridge to Hilton Head Island should be fixed by the day's end and that a hot line for bridge maintenance problems will be posted so
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-20-04

*DAUFUSKIE ISLAND: Donation enables congregants to restore 123-year-old church
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-20-04

*Police find a 6-foot alligator on Oak Grove Island
-Brunswick News, 3-19-04

*To Swim or Not to Swim: Illnesses rarely reported despite presence of bacteria
-Daytona News Journal, 3-20-04

*Officials believe a naturally occurring biotoxin is the cause of death for nearly 50 dolphins that have washed up dead on Panhandle beaches
-Florida Times Union, 3-18-04

*The final draft of an "Inlet Dredge Study" was delivered this week to the Port St. Joe, essentially providing three viable options
-Port St. Joe Star, 3-18-04

*State lawmakers are calling on federal permitting officials to expedite their review of a proposed new shipping terminal in North Charleston, arguing that a full-scale environmental study would be a waste of time and taxpayers' money
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-17-04

*Enjoy spring fever by the sea
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-17-04

*Navy destroyer rescues stranded boaters on way to St. Patrick's celebration
-Savannah Morning News, 3-17-04

*Don't expect the Sidney Lanier Bridge to twinkle in the moonlight anytime soon: Work toward adding aesthetic lights to the cables of the bridge is at a standstill
-Brunswick News, 3-16-04

*Summer tourism outlook is sunny
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-16-04

*A developer who sought permission for 20 septic tanks on Morris Island must get the land rezoned first, and more than 100 people wrote letters opposing his plans for new homes on the barrier island just south of Fort Sumter
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-16-04

*A Circuit Court judge Monday took up whether to dismiss the South Island Dredging Association's lawsuit over enforcement of provisions of the group's state permit to dredge Sea Pines marinas and waterways
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-16-04

*Freshwater turtle populations throughout the Lowcountry and the rest of South Carolina could be threatened by a thriving collection business that sends them overseas, conservationists say
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-16-04

*The City of Gulf Breeze plans a public meeting March 24 to discuss alternative proposals for a replacement to the Pensacola Bay Bridge
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-16-04

*A key to protecting the Ochlockonee River and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River systems may be preserving the rare mussels that live in them
-Tallahassee Democrat, 3-16-04

*Robinson takes on Daufuskie restoration
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-14-04

*Surf lays low as crowd picks up: Spring breakers arrive; lifeguards have easy day
*Gulf Breeze officials who got a peek at alternative locations for a new Pensacola Bay bridge
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-15-04

*With a rich history dating back to the 1500s, the seafaring town of Port Royal is changing. The State Ports Authority's Port of Port Royal is slated for closure and the agency's 44 acres of prime waterfront property will be up for grabs
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-14-03

*After a decade's worth of local cleanup efforts, Rose Bay was only two tasks away from being healthy again -- and both fell to the federal government. This spring the Army Corps of Engineers was scheduled to dredge built-up muck and remove an old causeway that chokes off the Port Orange area bay's natural flow. But now it says it won't, blaming a funding shortage
-Daytona News Journal, 3-14-03

*CAPE SAN BLAS -- State and federal scientists stepped up efforts Friday to determine what has been killing bottlenose dolphins, fish and horseshoe crabs in and near St. Josephs Bay
-Daytona News Journal, 3-13-03

*Firefighters learn skills for beach safety
*Will area beaches be safer this year?
-Destin Log, 3-13-04

*The effort to keep the Morris Island Lighthouse from eventually crumbling into the sea has become bogged down in wrangling between the state and federal governments
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-13-04

*A $9 million project to save Hunting Island State Park's disappearing beaches will receive full funding under the state's $5.3 billion budget
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-13-04

*Sea Pines resigned to let shoreline recede: Little choice left in fight to save 18th green
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-13-04

*Red snapper rules could be changing
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 3-12-03

*Though the Volusia County Council has never come out against cars on the beach, city officials and residents drove the council Thursday to make a show of support for the century-old tradition
-Daytona News Journal, 3-12-04

*More guards, tourists hit the beach Beach safety crews are increasing their efforts as spring break heats up this weekend
-Daytona News Journal, 3-12-04

*The guided missile destroyer William Pinckney, named for a Beaufort native, will be open for tours Friday and Saturday at the old Navy base in North Charleston
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-11-04

*Abandoned boats that have broken loose and drifted from their anchorages in the last two weeks are an example of why the Beaufort Waterway Commission needs to work on local boat regulations
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-11-04

*Army Corps of Engineers project, expected to begin in May 2005, will dredge an 11-mile stretch of the Intracoastal from the Duval County line to just south of the Palm Valley bridge
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 3-11-04

*Cobia: The annual hunt begins
-Destin Log, 3-10-04

*Danger on the beach: 60 years after World War II, there are still potentially dangerous military munitions used at the Camp Gordon Johnston training base scattered throughout eastern Franklin County
-Tallahassee Democrat, 3-11-04

*Daufuskie Island homeowners and state officials Tuesday settled a legal challenge to the state's beachfront management law, stopping a trial before it got started
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-10-04

*Daufuskie Island sea wall trial gets under way
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-9-04

*Jury picked in Daufuskie seawall lawsuit
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-9-04

*A strong west wind turned a Sunday at the beach into a life-threatening nightmare for two Orlando men who spent 18 hours adrift at sea in an inflatable raft
-Daytona News Journal, 3-9-04

*After a weekend that saw nearly 40 rescues from a pounding surf, the Gulf of Mexico was flat Monday
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-9-04

*Spring break bookings up
*An engineering firm working for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance is reporting that storms adversely affect water quality in Choctawhatchee Bay. However, there was some amazement to Baskerville-Donovan Inc.’s finding that rainfall does not necessarily cause spikes in the levels of three dangerous pollutants — nitrates, ammonia and bacteria
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 3-8-04

*Clay County Commission's top priority is a new bridge between Clay and St. Johns counties because future traffic will swamp the two-lane Shands Bridge. That connection shouldn't take a back seat to a bigger Mathews Bridge, said Clay County Commissioner George Bush
-Florida Times Union, 3-8-04

*Navarre island is for sale
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-8-04

*Daufuskie seawall case heads to court
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-7-04

*For a spring break getaway, head west to the Gulf Shores area
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-7-04

*Department of Transportation will increase the speed limit on U.S. 98 in Walton County before summer begins, a spokesperson said. The DOT's Tommie Speights said the speed limit on the newly expanded highway will be raised in some parts by as much as 10 mph
*New tourist tax: Support for measure not universal
-Destin Log, 3-6-04

*Charleston County Council scrambles to make its next $3 million Cooper River bridge payment, due Jan. 1
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-5-04

*Port Royal closing in works
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-6-04

*Lights that mark bridge supports on the span of U.S. 278 over Skull Creek have been out for months and may imperil boats and barges, making it difficult to see the bridge in the dark, local boat captains and mates say
*All signs point to Hilton Head Island's next beach nourishment project beginning in September 2005 and lasting at least through the following May
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-6-04

*Hilton Head explores extending beach parking from one to two years
*Some things to know about public beach access to Hilton Head Island's beaches
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-6-04

*Corps of Engineers undoes earlier straightening work to allow the Savannah River to flow and function in a natural way
-Savannah Morning news, 3-6-04

*End of an era is at hand Shrimpers' supplier is leaving Fernandina Beach
-Fernandian News Leader, 3-3-04

*Computer models see busy hurricane season
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-3-04

*Coastal counties want their public boat ramps and landings examined to get a handle on just how much the facilities are being used and by whom
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-3-04

*Aging drawbridges unlikely to be replaced
-St. Augustine Record, 3-3-04

*The Volusia County Health Department on Tuesday lifted the swimming advisory for the surf near the Florida Shores Boulevard beach approach in Daytona Beach Shores
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-3-04

*One of South Carolina's largest homeowner's insurance companies has stopped writing policies along most of the state's 187-mile coastline
*Hurricane forecasters' message stressed
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-2-04

*A recommendation to limit live-aboard boaters to seven-day stays on the open water in Beaufort was rejected for the fourth time Monday, against the wishes of the Beaufort Planning Department
*Federal officials say they've found the $197,000 necessary to resume work on a stalled $9 million plan to restore Hunting Island State Park's disappearing beaches
*Jasper County Council agrees to create own ports authority
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-2-04

*Water and its management are key to dune lakes
-Walton Sun, 2-27-04

*A record-breaking phase of construction took place Sunday on the new Cooper River bridge as the bridge's signature feature, the cables, started cascading down from the towers
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-1-04

*Kiawah tests aim to restore wetlands
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-1-04

*Noted naturalist, Ray Mancke, makes case for allowing Hunting Island to erode
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-1-04

*Spring forecast: Mild temps, packed hotels
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-1-04

*Old shrimp boats clutter Skull Creek
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-29-04

*Coast Guard finds life raft in Gulf; no sign of missing Perdido Key boaters
-Florida Times Union, 2-29-04

*Beginning Monday, beach driving from Ocean Trace to Sea Colony is one way
-St Augustine Record, 2-29-04

*The Atlantic Beach Community Development Board Tuesday unanimously recommended that the city not allow a private yacht club and marina to be built on Johnston Island
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 2-27-04

*The Department of Environmental Protection reached an agreement with The St. Joe Company to save wetlands and conserve 20,760 acres along the Florida Panhandle
-Walton Sun, 2-28-04

*The Navarre Fisherman
*The changing face of Navarre Beach continues to unfold in 2004
-Navarre Press, 2-26-04

*Dates set for boat ramp and dock projects
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-27-04

*Officials have reinstated a swimming advisory for ocean near Florida Shores Boulevard in Daytona Beach Shores, citing elevated levels of enterococcus bacteria in the water
-Daytona News Journal, 2-26-04

*Boat missing in Gulf
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-27-04

*Stakeholders trying to map a future for the port of Port St. Joe and adjacent lands
-Port St. Joe Star, 2-26-04

*New Bryant Grady Patton bridge seen as a boon for St. George Island
-Tallahassee Democare, 2-27-04

*Morris Island will move to the top of a list of endangered Civil War battlefields today in response to plans to develop it
*A casino boat company looking for safe harbor and willing gamblers along the South Carolina coast have set a course for Edisto Beach
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-24-04

*Miracle, Carnival Cruise Lines' first ship to sail from Jacksonville
-Florida Times Union, 2-24-04

*Watchi ng the growth of the new Cooper River bridge is a waiting game. Residents always are wondering what a section of roadway or series of piers, even the towers, will look like once completed. But any day now, we'll see something completely new on the bridge -- the cables
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-23-04

*Local shrimpers fight back
-Bunswick News, 2-23-04

*HILTON HEAD ISLAND: New landing with deep-water access is on target for late-summer completion
*It is unfathomable that Hilton Head Island, often marketed as a world-class resort destination, would have only one public boat landing
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country News, 2-23-04

*The idea of a bus to ferry passengers from downtown Charleston to the sand and nightlife of Folly Beach has been around for years. It took a carpenter from Pennsylvania to turn it into reality
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-22-04

*Sea grass survival: Anglers, scientists alarmed by prop scars in Mosquito Lagoon
*Propeller scars are preventable, but if Jim Anderson's inventions for restoring sea grass pan out, they might also be fixable
-Daytona News Journal, 2-22-04

*Beach-safety plans receive needed money for ATVs
-Destin Log, 2-21-04

*With The St. Joe Co. eyeing eastern Franklin County for future growth, residents and visitors alike are wondering where they will fit into the future landscape
-Tallahassee Democrat, 2-22-04

*A decision on whether the federal government will support a proposal to restore the disappearing beaches of Hunting Island State Park could be made over the coming months
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-21-04

*While state legislators consider a bill that would remove the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' power to close the state's crab fishery, some crabbers are voicing opposition to the measure
*If St. Simons and Sea islands were to incorporate, what would it be called, the city of St. Simons Island? Or how about the city of St. Simons/Sea Island?
-Brunswick News, 2-20-04

*The effort to acquire easements from property owners for a beach renourishment project in Fernandina Beach - a project jeopardized by lack of federal funding - is nearing completion
*The Amelia Island Lighthouse, located here since 1838 and operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, is being repaired and restored
-Fernandina Beaches Leader, 2-20-04

*Castillo de San Marcos is undergoing needed renovations
-St Augustine Record, 2-21-04

*Intense training begins today to prepare Pensacola Beach lifeguards for the busy tourist season
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-21-04

*Nina, A replica of one of the ships Christopher Columbus used on his voyage to the New World is docking in St. Augustine for several days as part of its final year of touring
-Florida Times Union, 2-20-04

*Intracoastal Waterway dredging project. The Corps of Engineers said some docks in Palm Valley are longer than allowed and may have to come down
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 2-20-04

*Okaloosa exempts surfers from beach safety ordinance
-Daytona News Journal, 2-20-04

*Condos could share turf with beach mice
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-20-04

*Three deep water reefs off the South Carolina coast would be closed to bottom fishing under a proposal from the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council that's aimed at restoring species such as grouper and tile fish
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-19-04

*South Carolina State Ports Authority officials remained noncommittal Wednesday on any plans for developing a deep-water port in Jasper County
-Brunswick News, 2-19-04

*A bill that would strip the Georgia Department of Natural Resources of its authority to close the state's crab fishery was heard in the House Game, Fish & Parks Committee on Tuesday
-Brunswick News, 2-18-04

*Roving patrols, a central headquarters for lifeguards and a new training facility on Pensacola Beach could become reality if the Santa Rosa Island Authority approves recommendations that Pensacola Beach safety director Bob West offered Wednesday
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-19-04

*Shrimpers from the Carolinas to Texas won another victory Tuesday in their high-stakes campaign to have tariffs placed on foreign shrimp
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-18-04

*First deployed at the height of the Korean War in 1950, a decommissioned 888-foot Navy aircraft carrier could continue its service to the nation as an artificial fishing reef off the South Carolina-Georgia coast
*An economic study of Port Royal's waterfront is expected to be discussed today when the South Carolina State Ports Authority Board of Directors meets in Columbia
-Beaufort Gazette, 2-18-04

*RIDGELAND: County Council tables setting up deep-water shipping terminal administration
-Carolina Monring News, Low Country Now, 2-18-04

*Three fishermen rescued from 'big, mean' ocean by Coast Guard
-Savannah Morning News, 2-18-04

*The ongoing tug-of-war between Georgia crabbers and the state Department of Natural Resources has reached the legislature
*Processors oppose petition against foreign shrimp
-Brunswick News, 2-17-04

*PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- About 200 concerned residents filled an auditorium Tuesday night to learn about an upcoming dredging project adjacent to their Palm Valley homes
-Florida Times Union, 2-18-04

*Augustine Beach City Commission will review how adequate beach access will be for motorists parking on the sand this upcoming season
-St Augustine Record, 2-18-03

*On Monday, Inlet Harbor became the second marina in Volusia County to be deemed "clean" by the state, and it hopes its new green credentials will be a boon for business as well as the ecosystem
-Daytona News Journal, 2-17-04

*A Greenville developer is moving ahead with plans to sell 20 residential lots on Morris Island, the deserted barrier island just south of the entrance to Charleston Harbor. But other people have launched a new effort to stop him
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-16-04

*Jasper readies for another go at deep-water port
*Jasper port idea far from dead
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 2-16-04

*Local fishing enthusiasts want officials to concentrate on new pier that will be created using old bridge
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 2-14-04

*Tybee City Council was clear: No condos on Lazaretto Creek
-Savannah Morning News, 2-14-04

*FLAGLER BEACH -- Dog owners who want to bring their pets to the beach will see more warning signs, fewer parking spaces and steeper fines for breaking the law
-Daytona News Journal, 2-14-04

*Pensacola Beach lifeguards adjust strategy, foot patrols among drowning prevention efforts
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-14-04

*Road signs leading to North Charleston could soon include the line: "Home of the H.L. Hunley"
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-13-04

*Traffic on the F.J. Torras Causeway may be moving a tad swifter these days. On Feb. 2, the Georgia Department of Transportation raised the speed limit on the causeway to 50 mph on the entire roadway
-Brunswick News, 2-12-04

*Woodbine officials celebrate riverfront development
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 2-12-04

*Officials are expected today to name which city gets the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley museum
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-12-04

*Ports, feds still negotiating Mulberry Grove Historic plantation property represents 'great needs, interests on both sides of the issue,' says Fish &Wildlife official
-Savannah Morning News, 2-12-04

*Jekyll growth up for debate
-Brunswick News, 2-11-03

*Volusia County Health Department, citing elevated bacteria levels in the water, has issued a swimming advisory for the ocean near Silver Beach Avenue
-Daytona News Journal, 2-12-04

*Beaufort County should concentrate on buying properties that will limit mainland growth, several Hilton Head Island residents
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-11-04

*Fishman: Canal channels Savannah's history
-Savannah Morning News, 2-11-04

*Fernandina Beach commissioners have directed city staff to investigate the possibility of acquiring water rights north of Brett's Waterway Cafe to extend the city's docks north about 400 feet
-Florida Times Union, 2-11-04

*Surfers fear wipeout by Ponce Inlet jetty extension: Funding problems have delayed construction on Ponce de Leon Inlet's south jetty until at least next winter
-Daytona News Journal, 2-11-04

*The new bridge to St. George Island opens Thursday, the new bridge will retain the name of the old bridge-and-causeway: the Bryant Patton Bridge
-Florida Times Union, 2-11-04

*Researchers unravel a marsh dieback mystery: drought probably killed 1,000 acres of Georgia salt marsh, but it wasn't working alone
-Savannah Morning News, 2-9-04

*Pensacola City Council's decision this week on a lease for a Port of Pensacola tenant could be the bellwether of the facility's future
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-9-04

*The race to preserve Fort George Inlet
*Researchers hope to take sting out of jellyfish
-Florida Times Union, 2-8-04

*The former Charleston Naval Base soon will become home to a new Coast Guard Law Enforcement Academy, a move that will bring about 2,000 Coast Guard trainees to the base each year
*If state lawmakers don't commit to protecting South Carolina's coast, a yearlong study by the Council on Coastal Futures will end up gathering dust says Council on Coastal Futures
*Council On Coastal Futures web site
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-7-04

*South Carolina officials could encourage fewer docks in the state's increasingly crowded waterways by allowing bigger docks to be built if they are intended for more than one household
-Beaufort Gazette, 2-7-04

*Daufuskie group opposes deer culling
*Harbour Town sale on hold
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-7-04

*Pigs invade Tybee Island
-Savannah Morning News, 2-7-04

*Security measures anger Security measures anger Brunswick Marina owner
-Brunswick News, 2-6-04

*Beaches Area Historical Society showcases fossils, details area's earliest days
-Ponte Vedra Beches Leader, 2-6-04

*LONDON -- Swift tides and ice-cold waters killed 19 people hunting for shellfish in a treacherous northern English bay, police said Friday. Authorities suspect the dead and 16 survivors, mostly Chinese nationals, were the victims of people-smugglers and work-gang operators
-AP Daytona News Journal, 2-7-05

*Police department will soon begin patrolling waterways
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 2-6-04

*Pensacola Beach residents are strongly divided over a project to four-lane a portion of Via de Luna. The Santa Rosa Island Authority on Wednesday approved a $22 million plan to four-lane the beach's main thoroughfare to Avenida 23
*Two flags added to beach warning system
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-6-04

*After more than three years of construction, the state’s third longest bridge, bringing traffic more rapidly and more safely between Eastpoint and St. George Island, is expected to open for traffic next week
-Apalachicola Times, 2-5-04

*High arsenic, lead levels found along Beaufort River
-Beaufort Gazette, 2-5-04

*A split Planning Commission said Wednesday that Hilton Head Island time-share projects should be handled without public hearings
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-5-04

*More than 95 percent of shippers along this region's coast have complied with federal requirements to file anti-terrorism plans
-Florida Times Union, 2-5-04

*Port security focus of Bush's S.C. visit
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-4-04

*Days-old right whale comes ashore on Amelia Island; bid to save it fails
-Florida Times Union, 2-4-04

*A large turnout is expected at a special meeting of the Santa Rosa Island Authority today to discuss whether Via de Luna should be four-laned
-Pensacola News Journal, 2-4-04

*Coast Guard saves crew of sinking fishing boat
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-3-04

*Salt marsh dieback has caused great concern along the Georgia coast
*Vox Populi: "Leave the crabbers alone."
-Savannah Morning News, 1-3-04

*More retail space, replacing some hotels with condominium-like rentals, and allowing more houses may be in store for Jekyll Island in the not-too-distant future
-Brunswick News, 1-2-04

*Haunted by the firestorm of public opposition that sunk the State Port Authority's proposed terminal for Daniel Island, federal permitting officials are taking steps to ensure the public is better and more timely informed about port expansion plans in North Charleston
*From Isle of Palms to Kiawah to Daufuskie Island, golf carts are becoming a preferred mode of transportation even though they can have disastrous consequences
*Gibson's design for the new Ashley River Bridge tender's house on the newer (and northbound) of the two bridges has been acclaimed
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-2-04

*Volunteers and a bird sanctuary worked over the weekend to help numerous birds stricken by what some think is a pollutant in the St. Johns River near the Mayport area
*The nation's biggest ports at a glance
-Florida Times Union, 2-2-04

*Five construction workers on the new Cooper River bridge probably owe their lives to a net that prevented 4 tons of construction material from crushing them as they worked
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-1-04

*Fishermen facing survival fight: Shrimpers, crabbers trying to preserve a way of life
-Brunswick News, 1-31-04

*Groups sues St. Johns over beach access
-Florida Times Union, 2-1-04

*Shark attacks down, but Volusia County still No. 1
-Daytona News Journal, 2-1-04

*2 maritime sites to be proposed for a proposed maritime museum: the Port of Pensacola or the former Trillium property
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-31-04

*State and local officials worked out a compromise Thursday to keep a marine sanctuary in Navarre Beach State Park’s future
-Navarre Press, 1-29-04

*A luxury yacht stolen under the cover of darkness from Charleston's City Marina on Jan. 7 was found Wednesday night near the town of Freeport, a playground for the rich and privileged on Grand Bahama Island
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-30-04

*Hundreds of hairline cracks blanketing the surface of a new four-lane bridge over the Broad River have Beaufort County commuters questioning whether they're getting what they paid for
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-30-04

*Georgia Ports moves to develop Mulberry Grove, Drakies uplands
-Savannah Morning News, 1-30-04

*$600,000 Beneteau found at Bahamas marina: Still a mystery who took vessel from Charleston
-Coast News, 1-30-04

*Citing elevated levels of bacteria in the water, the state has issued a second advisory against swimming near International Speedway Boulevard or the Main Street Pier in Daytona Beach
-Daytona News Journal, 1-30-04

*Redevelopment near the Ocean Course golf course should consist of fewer lodging units, no cottages and removal of the existing clubhouse once a new one is built
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-28-04

*Georgia Board of Natural Resources on Wednesday agreed to borrow $2.5 million to build a new headquarters at the Port of Brunswick
*Georgia Department of Natural Resources is looking for public input on its recently released coastal marsh hammocks report
-Savannah Morning News, 1-28-04

*Edisto Island hotel project falls through
*Folly council won't act on sandbag issue
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-28-04

*Friends of the Rivers organizes Broad Creek cleanup for March 20
-Hilton Head Island Packet Onine, 1-28-04

*After the roast, oysters get a new life, researchers are collecting the shells to rebuild reefs
-Savannah Morning News, 1-28-04

*For the second time in eight months, fire has crippled the agri-bulk port facility on Colonel's Island
*Georgia crab harvest altered for March
-Brunswick News, 1-27-04

*South Carolina officials say anglers can help them determine whether a program to increase the number of red drum in the May River is working
*Turtles will continue to nest on the beaches of Pritchards Island, but there may be no one to protect the nests from the surf or predators
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-27-04

*Georgia DNR bans harvest of female blue crabs in March
-Savannah Morning News, 1-27-04

*Developers of the Bristol Marina on the historic Charleston peninsula are seeking permit changes that would allow them to add 61 boat lifts to the facility in the Ashley River
-Coast News, 1-26-03

*Dauphin Island lures buyers
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-25-04

*Navarre Beach to launch new boat ramp
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-26-04

*Brunswick may be the final destination of hundreds of old U.S. Navy ships to prepare thems for their final role as artificial reefs
-Brunswick News, 1-24-04

*High-rise condos, yacht club are denied
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 1-23-04

*Federal legislation passed by Congress this week and awaiting the president's signature would provide Alabama $2.5 million to buy a new ferry boat next year to carry cars year-round between Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-24-04

*Divers ready for Navarre sanctuary, marine project overcomes wrangling
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-24-04

*Fishing agency maintains course on red snapper
-Destin Log, 1-23-04

*Weapons station stores, ships ammo
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-24-04

*Proposed deepening of Savannah's harbor has scientists looking at what more dredging might do to coastal Georgia's drinking water supply. Drilling reveals extent of salt water intrusion.
-Savannah Morning News, 1-24-04

*County Council members called for an analysis of who parks on Volusia's beaches before they consider spiking the idea of doubling beach parking tolls for visitors
-Daytona News Journal, 1-23-04

*Officials with an interest in bringing a $350 million deep-water port to Jasper County are concerned about rumors that the South Carolina State Ports Authority may move to condemn the site
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-23-04

*Haig Point has state permission to thin its deer population by culling 40 deer by the end of February
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-23-04

*Georgia Department of Natural Resources is ready to ask the public what it thinks about the coastal marsh hammocks report
-Brunswick News, 1-22-04

*Florida state officials want consistency in which warning flags are flown at Florida's beaches
-Daytona News Journal, 1-23-04

*Sometime in March, Arvida and the county will hold a public hearing at which time the development order for WindMark Beach Phase II will be hammered out and approved
*Fish Kill on Cape San Blas
-Port St Joe Star, 1-22-04

*A consulting group's plan for preserving this island's character drew plenty of criticism at a hearing Wednesday night as being either too strict or too lenient
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-22-04

*State officials want the South Island Dredging Association to clean up "black muck" at South Beach they say was pumped onto the beach as part of a town nourishment project
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-22-04

*RIDGELAND: Columbia lobbyist dropped; county looks for another way to develop ship terminal on Savannah River
-Carolina Morning News, 1-22-04

*Sullivan's to hear zoning recommendations
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-21-04

*The auction of an undeveloped island in the Broad River was called off at the last minute
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-21-04

*Beaches condo project rejected
-Florida Times Union, 1-21-04

*Beaufort and Jasper County commercial shrimpers and catfish producers who saw a downturn in productivity from 2001 to 2002 are eligible for federal Farm Service Agency assistance
*May River oysters define Bluffton
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 1-20-04

*Theft of Beneteau 57-footer from Charleston, S.C. Municipal Marina has authorities stumped
-Coast News, 1-17-04

*Archaeologists work to preserve Indian artifacts along Treasure Coast
-Floridia Times Union, 1-17-04

*San Sebastian Harbor Partners of Ponte Vedra Beach emerged as the top candidate to build St. Augustine's long-awaited riverside development
-St Augustine Record, 1-17-04

*Man with a green thumb grows tall sea oats
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-18-04

*The long-awaited Whitman Report, "Visioning Pensacola Beach 2010,"
-Pensacola Beach News, 1-16-04

*Winter's low tides and shifting sands have uncovered a 60-year-old shipwreck along Walton County's coastline
*New project on 30A promises unique waterfront
-Walton Sun, 1-17-04

*The Navy's fast sealift ship Regulus was nearly ready to cast off Thursday from the State Ports Authority's North Charleston terminal
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-16-04

*New Broad River bridge opening to traffic
-Hilton Head Island Packet, 1-17-04

*After construction of new bridges over the Chechessee and Broad rivers, a new 1,800-foot fishing pier - part of the old bridge currently in use - will remain on the Beaufort side of the Broad. Various officials are now hoping to include an inshore reef at the base of that pier
*Biologists release 1.76 million young Red Drum into local waters
-Carolina Morning News, Carolina Morning News, 1-17-04

*People say nice things about growth of Pensacola Beach, but ...
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-17-04

*Too much dog poop for Crystal Beach man
-Destin Log, 1-17-04

*Stolen Luxury sailboat vanishes without a trace
*Attendance at Charleston's leading tourist attractions dropped 9.8 percent in 2003
*Around Alone champion, wife to boost tall ship effort
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-16-04

*Bill King's proposal for expanding the new Fishing Pier to include a restaurant, snack bar, and gift shop received preliminary approval
-Pensacola Beach News, 1-14-04

*Mexico Beach to Get New Web Site
-St Joe Star, 1-15-04

*St. Simons traffic gridlock continue due to repairs on the Dunbar Creek bridges
-Brunswick News, 1-14-04

*Beach fee changes not likely soon
*Swimmers warned of ocean bacteria
-Daytona News Journal, 1-14-04

*The public is invited to take a look at the future of Mobile's waterfront Thursday
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-14-04

*Beach restoration generating lots of mail
-Destin Log, 1-14-04

*Driving jet skis won't be banned, but renting or buying them from a store along Shem Creek's shores will
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-14-04

*A Hilton Head Island law change might keep you from knowing ahead of time if a time-share development wants to move in next door
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-14-04

*New Broad River fishing pier still on drawing board (Brunswick)
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 1-14-04

*It's been a decade since the last casino boats folded on River Street, but a new operation is ready to roll the dice
-Savannah Morning News, 1-14-04

*Commercial fishermen rescued after ship sinks off Charleston, S.C
-Coast News, 1-13-04

*More shrimper funds available — just not yet
-Brunswick News, 1-13-04

*More condos, marinas going on Intracoastal Waterway
-Florida Times Union, 1-14-04

*A sea wall in front of Daufuskie Island beachfront homes is at the center of a court case that should be headed to a Beaufort County jury this month
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-13-04

*G-8 water patrol augmneted by new boat
-Savannah Morning News, 1-12-04

*Condominium development along the St. Johns River and the Intracoastal Waterway is resulting in vanishing boatyards
-Florida Times Union, 1-12-04

*Repellent sought to make surf safer from jellyfish: During peak jellyfish days, Flagler Beach lifeguards could treat up to 100 people for jellyfish stings and then run the same risk when they save a drowning swimmer
-Daytona News Journal, 1-12-04

*Dog owners beware - beach permit required
-Walton Sun, 1-10-04

*Red snapper overfished
-Destin Log, 1-10-04

*National Park Service ends controversy by keeping both routes to Fort Sumter
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-10-04

*Marinas need to outline their dredging needs for the South Carolina state coastal regulatory agency so options for dredge spoil disposal can be studied on a statewide basis
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-10-04

*Season, daily beach parking fees may jump to $10
*Special report: Beach Driving
*St. Joe proposing Panhandle wetlands deal that would free the development company from conventional permitting requirements in a 31,000-acre area of the Florida Panhandle
-Daytona News Journal, 1-9-03

*Marine sanctuary, pier plans stalled
-Navarre Press, 1-8-03

*Old Cooper River bridge gets checkup
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-7-03

*Safety issues block beach access
-St Augustine Record, 1-7-03

*Boat patrols to protect area's rare Oculina coral reef
*Oculina Habitat Area of Particular Concern
*Oculina Banks - Protecting a National Treasure
-Daytona News Journal, 1-8-03

*Two groups pitch plans for snapper
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-7-03

*Shrimpers from Georgia and other seafood-producing states are taking their fight against foreign shrimp imports to the U.S. government
-Brunswick News, 1-7-03

*Southern Shrimp Alliance web site

*The height of some new homes in St. Augustine Beach will be limited to 27 feet because of an ordinance
-St Augustine Record, 1-6-03

*Sighting of toothy giant stuns 2 local fishermen
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-6-04

*A nearly 60-year-old aircraft carrier could provide a sanctuary for deep-water fish if the U.S. Navy accepts a proposal from Georgia and South Carolina
*An ordinance restricting live-aboard boaters on the Beaufort River failed passage by the Beaufort-Port Royal Joint Municipal Planning Commission
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-6-04

*Hilton Head Island's first green sea turtles finally hatched, defying speculation none from their nest would survive
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-6-04

*Homeowners on Ponte Vedra Boulevard will be closer to owning a right of way that for decades has been their front yards if the St. Johns County Commission passes a resolution today to abandon the land
-Florida Times Union, 1-6-04

*An ordinance regulating live-aboard boaters within Beaufort city limits will make its first pass before the Beaufort-Port Royal Joint Municipal Planning Commission tonight
*Shrimp harvest above average; season ends Friday
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-5-03

*Rose Island owner gambles on no-minimum auction
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 1-5-03

*Sidney Lanier Bridge work is continuing into 2004, as is the work of completing a newer landmark that's been eight years in the making
*Brunswick News, 1-3-04

*The wilderness area on Cumberland Isaldn could increase by more than 32 acres if the National Park Service approves a proposed land swap
-Florida Times Union, 1-4-04

*Bird killings tarnish image of fishermen
*Volusia County water quality report
-Daytona News Journal, 1-4-04

*State-led effort to restore polluted waterways in the Pensacola Bay Basin that begins this month has the potential to hit homeowners, businesses and public entities in their pocketbooks
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-4-04

*Beach can be lost, couple warns
-Destin Log, 1-3-04

*Hotel idea riles Edisto Island residents
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-2-04

*South Carolina shrimp season ending with above average catch
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-2-04

*Georgia and South Carolina have filed a joint proposal to sink the USS Oriskany, a nearly 900-foot aircraft carrier
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 1-3-04

*Jacksonville's Beaches took on big issues in 2003: Beach renourishment, Pier construction, Shrimpers' frustrations, and more
-Florida Times Union, 1-3-04

*Beach safety funds sought: Navarre firefighters needed full time for tourist season
-Pensacola News Jounral, 1-3-04

*3,000 gather on Sullivan's Island for chilly swim to raise money for Special Olympics and have fun
*As the new $632 million Cooper River bridge opens to traffic around the summer of 2005, the old bridges will be turned into artificial reefs
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-2-04

*Rezoning proposal for Beaufort's Old Comm-ons neighborhood is a polarizing topic
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-2-04

*American shrimpers filed an antidumping petition against six Asian and South American countries Wednesday in hopes of shoring up a fishery ravaged by competition from cheap pond-raised imports
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-1-04

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