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Two separate busts in the Caribbean in late January seized a total of $46.2 million in cocaine, according to the Coast Guard. Nine people were arrested in the operations, and the Coast Guard says about 1,400 kilograms, or 3,086 pounds, of cocaine were confiscated.
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NMLEA
Now until March 6th, 2020, the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office is accepting nominations for the Law Enforcement - Maritime Doman Awareness Executive Steering Committee (MDA ESC) Excellence Award.
NMIO will be presenting two Law Enforcement MDA ESC Excellence Awards this year. One will be presented at the Maritime Security East Conference in Miami, 4-5 May to a person/organization that have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the area of responsibility for Florida.
The other Law Enforcement MDA ESC Excellence award will be presented at the IALEA conference in Dallas, 4-8 May to a person/organization that have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the United States and its territories.
Award Background:
In support of the stated goals of the National Maritime Domain Awareness Plan (NMDAP), the National MDA Executive Steering Committee establishes an annual national level maritime domain awareness award program “MDA ESC Excellence Award” to recognize exemplary stakeholder members of the Global Maritime Community of Interest (GMCOI), whose accomplishments have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the United States and its territories. This includes the US Federal interagency, US Intelligence Community (IC), state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies, international partners, academia, and maritime industry.
To nominate someone, contact Michelle Green at michelle.l.green2@navy.mil or the NMLEA at info@nmlea.org.
By Bambi Majumdar
 2020 has started with a wave of criminal justice reform laws coming into effect across the country. New state laws have come in the wake of President Trump signing the bipartisan First Step Act into law in December 2018. Some states even passed dozens of measures, all of which took effect this month. In particular, the last year was especially eventful for New York as far as criminal justice reform is concerned. The state's Democratic majority wasted no time in pushing significant reforms at the state level.
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The Falmouth Enterprise
The Coast Guard Auxiliary is not your typical group of volunteers. They are a uniformed, unpaid wing of the Coast Guard who train alongside their military counterparts and participate in search and rescues, towing, vessel inspections, education and answering distress calls. There is a good chance that if you hailed the Coast Guard off Falmouth or Martha’s Vineyard, it was an auxiliary member that first arrived on scene.
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The Waterways Journal
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of February 5, there were 24,554 total confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, also known as novel coronavirus, scattered across some two dozen countries worldwide. That was an increase of 3,925 cases from the day before. Of those cases, 24,363 (99.2%) were confirmed in China. The disease is believed to have originated in a market in the central China city of Wuhan. WHO also reported 492 known deaths from the disease, with all but one occurring in China.
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The Miami Herald
The Coast Guard stopped a sport fishing boat off Key Largo Monday and found several conservation violations, including the importation of queen conch, the harvest of which has been illegal in Florida since the 1980s, according to the agency. A boarding party from the Cutter Charles David, Jr. pulled over the vessel, the Salt Shaker II, about 13 miles southeast of Key Largo and found 10 fillets of snapper and grouper, and 26 fillets of wahoo “in illegal carcass condition,” according to the Coast Guard, meaning the fish were filleted at sea.
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KATC - TV
The Coast Guard is continuing to monitor salvage operations after a barge recently sank on the Intracoastal Waterway near Berwick, Louisiana. Officials released more details, saying that recovery of the vessel involves removing over 1,600 tons of the aggregate rock cargo, followed by the heavily damaged steel barge, all while working in a challenging waterway location. Salvage efforts are continuing through day and night operations.
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ABC
On a windswept island 12 kilometers from the West Australian coastline stands a lighthouse that has beamed its signal across the ocean for more than a century. An important beacon of maritime history, the Breaksea Island lighthouse is one of more than 500 aids to navigation dotted around Australia's vast coastline. Maintaining and preserving these beacons, which are often found in isolated locations, is an ongoing project for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
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The Island Free Press
Island residents noticed that the skies were a little darker over the weekend, as the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was not functioning and appeared to be turned off. Though the cause of the malfunction is not yet known, Michael Barber, Public Affairs Specialist for the National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, reported that the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) was notified about the issue, and that the Coast Guard had already been contacted for assistance.
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