June 1, 2022 — A group of boaters who were stranded in the Mississippi Sound are thankful to be alive.
Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, a crew of fishermen with Omega Protein rescued six people, including two children, from a small boat that had capsized.
Capt. Joel Deihl said he got a distress call from the Coast Guard asking for help.
March 21, 2016 — PASCAGOULA — Moss Point Mayor Billy Broomfield defended his city’s major industry, Omega Protein, to Jackson County supervisors on Monday.
He said the menhaden fishery would be hard hit if the county follows through with plans to ask the state to restrict menhaden fishing in the Mississippi Sound to one mile off the Jackson County coast. Harrison and Hancock counties already do that.
The restriction is in part to stop by-catch and overfishing.