Month: February 2018

PROCLAMATION RE: STRIPED BASS SEASON – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – INTERNAL COASTAL WATERS OF CRAVEN, BEAUFORT, AND PAMLICO COUNTIES, PUNGO RIVER, WEST BAY, AND PAMLICO SOUND This proclamation opens the 2018 Central Southern Management Area (CSMA) commercial striped bass fishery and sets the commercial harvest limit. Stephen W. Murphy, Director, N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, […]

  MOREHEAD CITY  The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries has certified a new state record red grouper. Robert L. Dean of Creedmoor reeled in the 35-pound, 11-ounce fish June 10 while fishing on the Cheerio Lady charter boat in the Atlantic Ocean 43 miles off Carolina Beach. The fish measured 37 inches total length (from […]