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Analysis: Why NC imposed new limits on spot, croaker
Jun 2, 2021 · Recreational bag limits and commercial season closures for spot and Atlantic croaker announced earlier this spring were prompted by "moderate" concern about stocks, but state biologists say both species remain abundant.
Beachcomber’s View: Whelks Versus Conchs | Coastal Review
Apr 22, 2019 · North Carolina native Kristin Hissong, a University of North Carolina Charlotte graduate, has been an Outer Banks resident of 15 years, and is a dedicated, beachcomber, spending more than 20,000 hours walking the Outer Banks and …
Beachcomber’s View: Science of Sea Glass | Coastal Review
Jun 12, 2019 · Sea glass can be found in a range of colors along Outer Banks beaches. Photo: Kristin Hissong. Reprinted from Island Free Press. The Outer Banks is home to an array of natural beauty, from the long stretches of wild beaches, to the calming waters of the sound, to all the many varieties of marine life.
What’s on the line? Spotted seatrout, aka ‘speckled trout’
Nov 30, 2021 · Though these two share a nickname, it is very easy to tell the two species apart from one another. First, if you are fishing in the ocean, or brackish waters of North Carolina, you’ll definitely hook a spotted seatrout, commonly referred to as speckled trout, but not an eastern brook trout.. While there are sea-run populations of eastern brook trout along the …
Estuaries: Protection and Restoration - Coastal Review
Sep 21, 2016 · The Chesapeake Bay, for example, was once a thriving estuary with unmatched oyster harvesting. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, numbers have fallen to less than 1 percent of historic populations because of overfishing, poor water quality, habitat degradation and disease.
‘Catastrophic crisis’: Imported shrimp flood US market
Nov 1, 2023 · Foreign shrimp imports are overwhelming the country’s inventories of shrimp and driving market prices for locally sourced shrimp to record lows, prompting widespread calls from elected officials and organizations throughout southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast states for the federal government to declare a fishery resource disaster.
Long a destination, Morehead City on road to change
Sep 14, 2023 · But 200 years ago, the land that Morehead City now comprises was an almost-blank spot on the map. It took years of planning, a shift in state policy, and the burgeoning growth of tourism for Morehead City to become one of North Carolina’s economic drivers.
Roanoke-Hatteras Algonquian: The tribe that never left
Oct 11, 2021 · Marilyn Berry Morrison, an outspoken advocate for the Roanoke-Hatteras Tribe of the Algonquian Indians of North Carolina, has led the effort for official state recognition of the tribe she calls "keepers of the land" and is still represented here on the Outer Banks.
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