Susan Shipman Center
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Archived Press Releases
Commissioner Mark Williams has announced that Georgia waters will open for commercial and recreational harvest of food shrimp at 8:00 am on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Effective that date, commercial food shrimp trawlers can operate in Georgia’s territorial waters open to power-drawn trawls. Commercial and recreational cast netters, as well as persons using a beach seine, can harvest food shrimp from waters open to the use of these gears.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources announced today that a new men’s record for the heaviest shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, has been awarded to Tyler Gary of Richmond Hill.
GA DNR Commissioner Mark Williams has announced that Georgia's territorial waters will close to commercial and recreational oyster harvest effective 6:00 a.m., Thursday, June 1, 2017 through midnight on Saturday, September 30, 2017. A similar closure occurred in 2016 to meet the requirements of Georgia's Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vp) control plan.
Final Agenda
Joint Meeting of the Coastal Marshlands and Shore Protection Committees
Friday, October 21, 2016
9:30 am
Georgia’s territorial waters will re-open to commercial and recreational shellfish harvest effective 6:00 a.m., Friday, October 28, 2016. GA DNR Commissioner Mark Williams closed shellfish harvest in state waters October 7th in anticipation of the expected impact from Hurricane Matthew and in the interest of protecting public health.
The votes are in and Georgians will soon have the opportunity to purchase a new motor vehicle license plate to support marine habitat conservation. Online voting ended last month and the winner is a plate designed by Cobb County graphic artist, Omar Murcia.
Beach Advisory Lifted for Tybee Strand Beach on Tybee Island
Beach Advisory Lifted for Tybee Strand Beach on Tybee Island
Effective at 8 a.m. today, March 17, 2020, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Regional Headquarters in Brunswick will implement social distancing measures in response to the COVID-19 virus.
Beach Advisory Lifted for Tybee Strand Beach on Tybee Island
Beach Advisories Issued for St. Simons Island & Jekyll Island Beaches
The Coastal Resources Division (CRD) today released the 2019 Coastal Ecosystem Report Card, which gave Georgia’s coast a score of 80 percent, or “A-."
Beach Advisories Issued for Jekyll and St. Simons Islands
Beach Advisory Issued for Tybee Strand on Tybee Island
Beach Advisory Lifted for Polk Street Beach on Tybee Island
Advisory Lifted on Jekyll Island; New Advisory Issued on St. Simon's Island