NOAA to Commission New Fisheries Survey Ship and Dedicate New Fisheries Service Building in Pascagoula, Miss.
Senior NOAA officials will commission NOAA Ship Pisces, the agency’s newest and most advanced fisheries survey vessel, and dedicate the agency’s new fisheries laboratory in Pascagoula, Miss. on Friday, Nov. 6. The recently completed NOAA laboratory replaces the facility that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The ship and laboratory will support fisheries research in the Gulf of Mexico, southeastern United States, and Caribbean. Media are invited to the ship commissioning and building dedication ceremonies.
WHAT:
NOAA Ship Pisces commissioning and NOAA Fisheries building dedication
WHEN:
Friday, Nov. 6
Ship commissioning - 10 a.m. CST
Building dedication - 11:30 a.m. CST
WHERE:
NOAA Gulf Marine Support Facility (Ship commissioning)
151 Watts Avenue
Pascagoula, Miss.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service Mississippi Laboratories (Building dedication)
3209 Frederic Street
Pascagoula, Miss.
WHO:
Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator
RADM Jonathan W. Bailey, director, NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and the NOAA Corps
James Balsiger, acting NOAA assistant administrator, NOAA’s Fisheries Service
NOTE:
One of NOAA’s hurricane hunter aircraft will make a ceremonial flyover during the NOAA Ship Pisces commissioning event.
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.