MOREHEAD CITY – Coastal recreational fishermen hooked fewer fish in 2016 than they did in 2015. Anglers brought an estimated 8.5 million fish to the docks in 2016, a decrease of 18 percent from 2015. The estimated weight of these landings inched up, increasing by 2 percent to 12.2 million pounds. Anglers also […]
MOREHEAD CITY – A warm autumn kept commercial fishermen catching and selling shrimp up to New Year’s Eve last year, boosting 2016 shrimp landings to the highest since the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Trip Ticket Program began in 1994. But overall, the 60 million pounds of finfish and shellfish commercial fishermen caught and […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is searching for a missing man Thursday near Cherrystone Inlet in Chesapeake Bay. Watchstanders at Station Cape Charles in Cape Charles were notified at 4 p.m. by a good Samaritan that a 27-foot Carolina Skiff had capsized with three persons aboard. The good Samaritan rescued two of the mariners […]
