Here come catch shares: How NOAA and the Environmental Defense Fund plan to destroy North Carolina’s working watermen When my late father was 24 years old, he returned to Hatteras from Long Island, New York. He returned because the Great Depression had left him jobless and standing in a bread line. He came back home […]
Congressman Walter Jones Questions NOAA Catch Share Policy WASHINGTON — Nov. 8, 2010 – Today U.S. Congressman Walter B. Jones (R-North Carolina) sent a letter to Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), opposing NOAA’s recently announced National Catch Share Policy and demanding answers regarding its development. Jones called the […]
2010 Flat Bottom Girls Flounder Tournament Boat Angler Weight Cash TWT Total 1st Masonboro Taylor Barefoot 8bls. 12oz. $ 1000.00 $202.50 $1202.50 2nd Island Tackle Charters Wes Barbour 5 lbs. 4oz. $ 500.00 $121.50 $100.00 $ 721.00 3rd No Name Dennis Durham 5 lbs. 2oz. $ 300.00 $ 81.00 $ 381.00 4th Turn It Up Fred Davis 4 lbs. 0oz. $ 200.00 $ 200.00 5th […]
EDF Exceptionally Deceptive on Fishing It’s time to set the record straight and expose the underhanded back-door dealings of EDF. EDF routinely misrepresents the facts. – EDF wants you to believe the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Alaska and both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are fished out. Nothing could be further from the truth. […]
NOAA’S CATCH SHARE POLICY SETS A TREACHEROUS COURSE Coastal Community Expresses Concerns Over New Federal Fisheries Agenda (11/5/2010) – Assistant Administrator of Fisheries Eric Schwaab this week announced that recreational anglers were being completely ignored by the administration. In the National Catch Share Policy release issued by NOAA Fisheries Service, Schwaab said angler opposition to […]
NOAA affirms catch share push in face of industry fire By Richard Gaines Staff Writer The Gloucester Daily Times Thu Nov 04, 2010, 10:44 PM EDT The Obama administration Thursday formalized its commitment to a national "catch share policy" — a system already drawing fire from fishermen, and one which NOAA’s chief administrator has said […]
