The Antarctic mission that keeps on giving...

[TechMan]

PHS isn't surprising, what with the government wanting to control our diets more every day, but NOAA?  What are they going to do, declare war on the weather?

Al Gore has declared war on the weather, why not NOAA?

[Gewehr98]

Look at Atlantic Tuna fishing regs.

Then again, if schools are being overfished, what are you gonna do?   

[dm1333]

NOAA regulates commercial fishing as well.  They are waging war on recreational fisherman in the gulf right now.  Look up what's going on with Red Snapper regulations....

Those uniformed NOAA people are in fisheries management.  Not sure what they call it now, but it used to be the National Marine Fisheries Service and then it changed to NOAA Fisheries.

[Ben]

Those uniformed NOAA people are in fisheries management.  Not sure what they call it now, but it used to be the National Marine Fisheries Service and then it changed to NOAA Fisheries.

Uniformed is actually NOAA Corps. They're everywhere from fisheries, to satellites, to the Air Operations contingent at MacDill. Also they are separate from "uniformed" fisheries guys, who are Federal cops. NOAA Corps doesn't have LE ability, nor do they even carry guns, not even on the ships anymore.

[freakazoid]

But they're planting kauri trees.  Which means that in another 50,000 years, we'll have a new stock of ancient kauri wood.

Pretty stuff.

Pretty.

[Hawkmoon]

Also remember that the Coast Guard used to be part of Dept of Transportation. They only went to Homeland after 9-11. Policing under DOT likely makes more intuitive sense to people on the surface than doing so under DHS.

Transportation?

I thought pre- DHS the Coast Guard belong to the Treasury Department.

[TechMan]

Transportation?

I thought pre- DHS the Coast Guard belong to the Treasury Department.

Nope it was Transportation.


Key Dates in Coast Guard History
1790:   Revenue-Marine (later renamed Revenue Cutter Service) created within the Treasury Department
1915:   Revenue Cutter Service combines with the U.S. Lifesaving Service (est. 1848) to create the Coast Guard
1939:   U.S. Lighthouse Service (est. 1789) added
1946:   Steamboat Inspection Service (est. 1838) added
1967:   Coast Guard transferred to Department of Transportation
2003:   Coast Guard transferred to Department of Homeland Security
http://www.uscg.mil/top/missions/

[dm1333]

Treasury was before DOT, in 1967.  Then DHS in 2002.  

edit:  fat fingered my laptop.  Joined DHS in 2003.

[zahc]

Saran wrap is gone?

When? I still have a box in my kitchen drawer.

I doubt it. Saran Wrap was polyvinylidene, an evil ozone destroying chemical and an abomination in the eyes of Gaia. What you have in your drawer is very likely just low density polyethylene, which keeps the food from sliding off the plate but not much else, since it has an oxygen diffusion coefficient 10000 time higher than real Saran wrap.