MDMR holds Disaster Recovery Application meeting
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV)- A key meeting was held in Biloxi Tuesday night, one that could bring much-needed relief to those in Mississippi’s seafood industry still feeling the impact of the…
Bonnet Carre Spillway
Bonnet Carre Disaster Recovery Application meeting
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV)- DMR is hosting a meeting about the 2020 Bonnet Carre Spillway Fisheries Disaster Recovery Program for wild oyster and shrimp recovery assistance. The meeting takes place Tuesday,…
MDMR accepting financial assistance applications for those impacted by 2019 spillway opening
GULF COAST, Miss. (WXXV)- The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is opening applications for a program for those impacted by the 2019 opening of…
Spillway trigger points not in forecast as MS River levels lower
An update by the Army Corps of Engineers offering some good news on the river levels. In an update Tuesday afternoon, the operational trigger points…
Bonnet Carre Spillway potentially opening
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- Harrison County Supervisor Marlin Ladner is in the WXXV studio to talk about a letter he sent to the Corps of Engineers on behalf of the Coast.…
Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to protect dolphins along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to protect dolphins along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after dozens were killed or sickened in 2019 following the prolonged opening of a spillway used for flood control. U.S. District…
Will $2.9 million in grants actually help Mississippi fishermen?
In 2019, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce declared Mississippi a catastrophic regional fisheries disaster after the Bonnet Carre Spillway was open 123 days. In…
Tracking the impact of the Bonnet-Carre Spillway on Mississippi's seafood
What is the Bonnet Carre Spillway? The Mississippi Sound Coalition is in a legal battle with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about the opening of the Bonnet-Carre Spillway…
2019 Mississippi Bonnet Carré Spillway Fisheries Disaster Recovery Program to pay out $6.57M to eligible commercial fishermen and seafood dealers
BILOXI, Miss. – A total of $6.57M will be paid out to the commercial fisheries as financial assistance for the 2019 Mississippi Bonnet Carré Spillway Fisheries Disaster Recovery Program through the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. Those commercial fishermen and…
DMR has applications available for 2019 Bonnet Carre Spillway disaster recovery
The 2019 Mississippi Bonnet Carré Spillway Fisheries Disaster Recovery Program financial assistance applications for commercial fisheries and charter boat participants will open Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at 8…
Rep. Mike Ezell wants Coast leaders and business owners in spillway talks
Congressman Mike Ezell took the opportunity during a hearing Thursday to question officials about the Bonnet Carre Spillway. During a hearing on transportation and…
Corps of Engineers to appeal Bonnet Carre Spillway ruling
The battle over the Bonnet Carre Spillway continues. The Army Corps of Engineers now appealing the decision from a recent lawsuit that says local Coast governments and…
Mississippi Sound Coalition meeting on Bonnet Carre Spillway
The Mississippi Sound Coalition held a special meeting this afternoon. The Harrison County supervisor’s conference room was filled with several Coast and statewide leaders to discuss the next…
Mississippi Sound Coalition meets following U.S District Court ruling
The Mississippi Sound Coalition met to discuss their future plans following the U.S. District Court’s ruling last Wednesday. On January 18th, the U.S. District Court ruled that…
Mississippi woman dies in I-10 wreck with stopped police car
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 23-year-old Mississippi woman has died after crashing into a sheriff’s office SUV that was stopped with its emergency lights flashing on an elevated interstate west of New Orleans, Louisiana State Police said Monday. Alexis Jones…
Mississippi deluges: Low salinity kills baby oysters
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Deluges along Mississippi’s coast have damaged the state’s current generation of oysters two years after fresh water from a Louisiana flood control structure all but wiped out live adults on reefs.…
IMMS provides expertise on proposed diversion of Mississippi River
Last week director of the Institute of Marine Mammal Studies Dr. Moby Solangi traveled to Jackson to speak before the state’s ports and marine resources committee about…
Court has mixed ruling on Bonnet Carre Spillway issue
Biloxi and other local governments can proceed with claims that opening Bonnet Carré harms fisheries habitats, but a federal court in Gulfport says it has no authority to compel a new Environmental Impact Statement to determine damages from the openings.…
Mississippi Lt Gov: Corps ignored spillway operating manual
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and Louisiana, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Tuesday. He spoke on the way…
Update on lawsuit against Bonnet Carre Spillway opening
At the Biloxi Town Hall meeting today, the Mississippi Sound Coalition updated Biloxi city leaders on the litigation against the Army Corps of Engineers. After the 2019 Bonnet Carre Spillway was open twice, causing severe damage to…
Mississippi to receive $21.3M to help with fisheries disaster
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Representative Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., today announced that $21,311,804 in federal fishery disaster relief funds has been allocated for Mississippi. The U.S. Department of Commerce aid is being distributed in response to a prolonged period…
Bonnet Carre Spillway officially closed but impact of opening could go on for weeks
The Bonnet Carre Spillway closed all of their bays on May 1st, but officials say the worst of its effects may still be yet to come. Moby Solangi with the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies says he believes we will…
Local fishermen create petition regarding the Bonnet Carre Spillway
The Army Corps of Engineers have begun the process of closing the Bonnet Carre Spillway. After heavy rains in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley increased river stages, the corps opened the spillway on April 3rd. The Army Corp of…
Bonnet Carre Spillway closure procedures begin
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District began the closing process at Bonnet Carre Spillway yesterday, based on the reduced flows in the Mississippi River at Red River Landing. The Army Corps will continue to assess conditions of…