Coastlines Georgia

Volume 8, Issue 1

Contents

• Editorial: Boat safely this summer
• Staff update: New faces and roles at CRD
• Fisheries stats tech named EOQ
• Derelict vessel safely removed
• Free family fishing event set for June 7
• Beach Week to return
• Economics of artificial reefs set as topic for May lunch-and-learn
• Feature: A 'Net Gain' for Science
• Ask a CRD Pro: What to keep in your Summer tackle box
• CoastFest returns for 29^th year
• Et Cetera: News Briefs from Across CRD

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Volume 7, Issue 4

Contents

• Editorial: Speak Up For Fisheries
• Wetlands Biologist Earns Employee of the Quarter
• New Faces and Retirements
• Lane Snapper Added as New Record
• CRD Hosts Coastal States Organization
• Finfish AP Hears Red Drum Stock Assessment Results
• Mariculture Zone Proposed in Glynn County
• The Ultimate Beginning Angler Gift Guide
• Feature: Navigating the Waters - How Fishery Management Agencies Shape the Future of Georgia's Coast
• DNR Responds to Hurricane Helene with Unmatched Coordination
• Ask a CRD Pro: Winter Fishing
• Retiree Spotlight: Cindy Smith Retires from DNR After More Than 40 Years
• Et Cetera: News Briefs from Around CRD

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Volume 7, Issue 3 (August 2024)

Contents

• Editorial: Angling ethics ensure future
• Compliance specialist named EOQ
• Staff receive State of Georgia Faithful Service Awards
• Private dock stakeholder committee begins work
• CRD hosts Career Academy
• Divers document growth on railcars
• Ask a Marine Biologist: Beachcombing, a guide to the Georgia coast
• Additions made to 3 offshore reefs
• A coastal tradition continues: CoastFest set to make waves in Brunswick
• Almaco jack record broken again
• Family catches 'troutzilla' at Jekyll pond
• Retiree Spotlight: Former director still leads in community
• Et Cetera: News briefs

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Volume 7, Issue 2 (April 2024)

Contents

• Editorial: Keep our beaches clean
• Public info officer named EOQ
• DNR real estate chief retires after 19-year career with agency
• Upgrades coming to Champney boat ramp
• DNR, Army Corps partner for bird habitat
• Back-to-back records set offshore
• Ask a Biologist: Finding Flounder
• Georgia's changing beaches
• Ecosystem report card shows moderate improvements
• DNR prioritizes disabled access to the outdoors
• Retiree Spotlight: Retired biologist still has eyes on future

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Volume 7, Issue 1 (January 2024)

Contents

• Editorial: Shrimpers deserve support
• Biologist, Career Academy lead named EOQ
• New Faces and Roles at CRD
• UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant honors CRD green growth specialist
• Food shrimp season draws to a close after extension
• End of the Line: CRD partners with MARTA to deploy retired railcars, 1,200 tons of concrete to Artificial Reef L
• CRD marine tech bags new record category
• 'Clean Marina' program re-launches
• From Cage to Cuisine: Georgia's first floating-cage grown oysters reach restaurants in major milestone
• Capt. Jack Evans looks back on CRD career
• CRD hosts public comment on proposed 'upland component' rule change
• Et Cetera: News briefs

Volume 6, Issue 3 (October 2023)

Contents

• Marine tech named EOQ for outreach work
• New faces and roles
• Rabon sworn in as 7th DNR commissioner
• New deputy commissioners appointed
• Jax woman reels in record pompano
• Feature: Dirty Jobs; CRD technicians are making one of the most complete inventories of coastal aquatic barriers to date
• Ask a Biologist: Oyster picking
• Game warden honored by SAFMC for fisheries work
• 'Rails to Reef:' MARTA donates retired cars
• New oyster reef part of carbon capture study
• Tug 'Brenda K' joins Reef KBY near Cumberland Island
• 'Et Cetera' news briefs

Volume 6, Issue 2 (June 2023)

Contents

• All about Coastal Seafood
• Marine educator named EOQ
• New faces and roles at CRD
• DNR commissioner off to new challenge
• Brief: MARTA Board votes to donated retired railcars for reefs
• Shrimp Season 2023 opens
• Coastal Georgia Seafood: How CRD helps bring your coastal favorites from the ocean to your table
• CRD donates $25K to endowment
• Ribbon cuttings around the coast: Noyes Cut, Village Creek
• Ask a Marine Biologist: Spotted Seatroutt
• Living shoreline added to Coastal HQ
• Annual Report Card released
• Two new state saltwater records set
• A Look Around: Kids Fishing Event
• Column: Seasons of the Saltmarsh - Dog Days of Summer
• Et Cetera (News Briefs)
• A Look Around: CoastFest 2023

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Volume 6, Issue 1 (March 2023)

Contents

• Earth Day Nature Trail offers relaxation, education
• Permit coordinator named employee of quarter
• New faces, roles at CRD
• Litter prevention group honors CRD biologist
• Brief: Davis elected DNR board chairman 2023
• Living Shorelines: A sustainable solution to coastal erosion
• Ask a Marine Biologist: Fishing for tripletail
• CRD license plate hits $1 million for habitat creation
• Angler ties 21-year sheepshead record
• Column: Spring is in the air

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Volume 5, Issue 2 (December 2022)

Contents

• CoastFest set for Earth Day
• Marine tech named employee of quarter
• CRD makes annual donation to Toys for Tots
• New CRD vessels support mission, staff
• 'Lemon Shark' selected as CoastFest art contest winner
• Redfish Outlook: As coastal Georgia's population grows, CRD aims to upgrade fishing regulations
• Beach advisories move to real-time map
• Seasons of the Saltmarsh: Silverling
• CRD launches virtual reality program to take students, public to artificial reefs
• Tourney volunteer bags record-tying fish

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​Volume 5, Issue 1 (May 2022)

Contents:

• Welcome (back) to Coastlines
• Remembering John Pafford
• Surf fishing for whiting
• Kids Fishing, CoastFest return as in-person events
• Shrimp season on the horizon as CRD celebrates 20,000 trawls
• Let's Make a Deal: Out Best for Yours this Summer
• 'A-' for Georgia Coast on annual report card
• Georgia Shellfish Farming: Concept to Table
• Fishing guide shares tarpon tips for a sustainable future
• Making a splash: CRD leverages partnerships in new reefs
• Beach program ready for summer
• Time to Prepare (for hurricane season)
• Runoff reduction targets pollution
• Seasons of the Saltmarsh: Cordgrass and Spartina
• Man sets new record for dolphin
• Vermilion snapper has new record
• Et Cetera (news briefs)

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Historical Editions of Coastlines Georgia:

Volume 1, Number 1 (February-March 1978)

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Contents:

• Editorial: This view of the coast
• Coastal Zone Management Update
• Coastal fisheries update
• Shrimp report
• Artificial reefs: Saltwater sportfishing update
• SBA loans to Georgia shrimpers
• Oyster restoration program
• Coastal Resources program
• Law Enforcement update
• Coastal Marshlands Protection update
• EPD coordinates with Kings Bay review
• New EPD program considers drinking water laws
• Historical poster at Fort King George
• Skidaway Island State Park
• State Geological Survey of Coastal shallow aquifers
• Georgia's barrier islands: Their history and management
• Summary of county positions on CZM legislation

Volume 1, Number 2 (April-May 1978)

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Contents:

• Coastal Zone Management Advisory Council
• Editorial: Gov. George Busbee
• Dedication: Patrick Campbell Adams (1947-1978)
• Coastal Resources Update (Blue crab, shrimp, sportfishing, Coastal Marshlands Protection Update)
• Law Enforcement updates (North and South)
• Offshore oil lease set
• Geologic and water resources update
• Fort King Georgia
• Environmental Protection Update
• Brunswick/Glynn County Joint Planning Commission
• University of Georgia Marine Extension Service
• Coastal Zone Management update

Volume 1, Number 3 (June-July 1978) [Special Regulations Edition]

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Contents:

• Coastal information/exhibit center
• Marsh restoration
• Coastal Zone Management update
• Coastal Resources update
• Coastal fisheries update/Shrimp tagging project
• Charter fishing boat data
• Georgia Commercial Fish Landings 1977
• Law Enforcement update
• Three mile limit
• Long distance swimmers (blue crabs)
• Georgia Coastal Fishing Regulations 1978-1979
• DNR tests survival equipment
• Outdoor education update
• EPD update
• OCS pipeline
• Coastal Update: Georgia Conservancy

Volume 1, Number 4 (August-September 1978)

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Contents:

• Coastal Resources update
• Coastal fisheries
• Coastal marshlands update
• Coastal Zone Management update
• Computer capabilities at Coastal Resources
• Information/Education Update
• Young Adult Conservation Corps
• Parks and Historic Sites update
• Law Enforcement update
• Game Management update
• EPD Update
• Technical task force
• Sea turtle protection plan announced
• OCS pipeline allocation process approved
• New OCS referral center
• U.S. Geological Survey Office to open in Brunswick

Volume 1, Number 5 (October-November 1978)

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Contents: 

• Nine coastal residents on New Coastal Management Board
• Coastal Resources marine exhibit center dedicated
• Dudley Moore Blakely
• The Coastal Young Adults Conservation Corps
• Sapelo estuarine sanctuary tours
• In the Drink ... Wintertime
• Search and rescue instructions available
• Comprehensive fisheries management program
• Proposed artificial marine reef act
• From dredge to reef
• Do saltwater fishermen face size and catch limits?
• To honor the blue crab
• Shrimp statistics program
• Air quality index
• Wild and Scenic ... Ogeechee River?
• Coastal Glimpses (photos)
• Coastal Zone update
• Marine recreation conference

Volume 2, Number 1 (May-June 1979)

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Contents:

• Editorial
• Shad: Georgia's forgotten fishery
• Marshwalk construction
• At the water's edge
• Estuarine sanctuary develops
• Coastal Resources YACC's now on Jekyll
• Vandals hurt reef program
• Fort King George wins award
• DNR divers turn a turtle
• Energy: Georgia's role in helping our national energy needs
• First offshore drilling scheduled
• Sportfish tagging program
• SEERS, not Sears
• People (of CRD)
• Water Laboratory
• Shellfish Sanitation Conference
• Air monitoring station
• Shoreline Assistance Act is now a law

Volume 2, Number 2 (July-August 1979)

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Contents:

• Tarbutton is new board member
• Semi-annual "checkup" time for estuarine sanctuary
• Hurricane devastates Georgia Coast?
• Sight-seeing offshore Mercury
• Eighth annual Savannah Invitational Billfish Tourney
• Charter boat data
• Shar preparation
• Throwing a cast net
• How to catch, clean and cook a blue crab
• Georgia water quality management plans and studies
• People, places and things ... (photo montage)

Volume 2, Number 3 (September-October 1979)

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Contents:

• Song of the swan
• Fed get their feet wet
• Hunting on Ossabaw
• Sapelo research
• Gould elected chairman of SAFMC
• Where eagles dare
• What's stirring on the Georgia Coast? (Brunswick stew recipe)
• First national workshop on estuarine sanctuaries
• Anderson Library
• Environmental radiation report
• Sportfishing update
• Air quality conference
• Management plan for billfish
• People, places, things (photo montage)

Volume 2, Number 4 (November-December 1979)

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Contents:

• Another look (editorial)
• The Beginnings: A guide to coastal historic sites
• Georgia shrimping: How good a year?
• Shrimp tagging continues
• EPD Committee formed
• Up Your Estuary (Overlook Park boardwalk, Sapelo tour, UGAMI Coachhouse converted)
• Public education -- key to conservation -- tool for change
• YACC program broadens
• SAFMC Hearing
• Canoeing Penholloway Creek
• Fishing for sheepshead
• Tagging review
• Draft program approved
• ERF in the surf
• Successful Sapelo hunt
• DNR Board visits coast

Volume 3, Number 1 (January-February 1980):

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Contents:

• Cofer elected chairman of DNR board
• Georgia's coast in the eighties
• 1980: Year of the Coast
• Dive! Dive! Dive!
• Hunting Butler Island
• Tides of the Georgia Coast
• EPD radiation sampling
• What's cooking on the Georgia coast: Rock shrimp salad
• Review of new report
• Going for spotted sea trout
• Ossabaw opens for public hunting
• Georgia saltwater gamefish records

Volume 3, Number 2 (March-April 1980)

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Contents:

• Georgia's artificial reefs
• Little St. Simons Island
• Georgia shrimping: The ups and downs
• Ebenezer Creek: A backwater experience (canoeing guide with map)
• Fishing for black drum
• Searching for Georgia's water borne past
• Pulp mill regulations
• EPD advisory committee
• Rediscovering the eel
• On the bottom
• Offshore energy activity: What's next?
• Taggers looking for black drum, channel bass (red drum)
• Et cetera ...

Volume 3, Number 3 (May-June 1980)

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Contents: 

• Blessing (of the Fleet) winners
• Challenging issues for the future
• Reimold elected to SEERS post
• EPD advisory committee
• A beachcombing guide to Georgia's coast
• Red drum
• Boat ramps, fish camps and marinas (directory)
• Coastal Georgia fishing tournaments
• St. Catherines: A unique barrier island
• Artificial reef brochure available
• 1980: The Year of the Coast
• Bolton receives Rock Howard Award
• Sea turtles in Georgia
• Canoeing the Okefenokee
• Et cetera ... 

Volume 3, Number 4 (July-August 1980)

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Contents:

• Coastal Fishing Tournament
• Strange Drifters
• Georgia Lobsters
• Life at the Bottom: Fishing Gray's Reef
• Saltwater Fishing Guide Available
• Turtle Program Expands
• Eagle Update
• Seeking a Sanctuary
• Cathead Jambalaya (Guide to canoeing Cathead Creek in Darien)
• EPD Advisory Committee
• Oyster Survey
• Atlantic Croaker
• Hearty Fisherman's Stew (recipe)
• Beach Photography
• Good Ol' Buoys
• Seining

Volume 3, Number 5 (September-October 1980)

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Contents:

• Resource demands and Coastal Management
• HNRC Coastal Visit
• David H.G. Gould
• Fall Fishing Outlook
• League hosts media workshop
• Coastal Area Deer Hunts
• Waterfowl Hunting Regulations
• Tarpon
• Hang Log
• Undersea Research
• Tagged Shrimp Discovered in Shangai, China
• Et Cetera