Commercial red drum season closes MOREHEAD CITY – Commercial fishermen have likely exceeded the red drum harvest limit allocated for the winter harvest period, and the season will close Saturday. Landings calculated just from electronically-submitted trip tickets showed fishermen have caught 144,258 pounds of the 150,000-pound harvest limit allocated for the Sept. 1 – April […]
2013 SHRIMPING AND CRAB TRAWLING Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that the following areas WILL OPEN to shrimping and crab trawling effective at 8:00 A.M., Wednesday, October 23, 2013. I. AREA DESCRIPTION BRUNSWICK COUNTY Intracoastal Waterway (IWW) – main IWW channel only from Marker # 1 (Southport) […]
Marine Fisheries requires pound net fishermen to check their nets daily MOREHEAD CITY – For the next two weeks, the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries will require fishermen with pound nets in certain Carteret County waters to check their nets daily for sea turtles. The regulation applies to pound nets in southern Core Sound, Back […]
Commercial Fishermen Needed to Remove Marine Debris MANTEO – The N. C. Coastal Federation is accepting applications for fishermen to help get marine debris out of the water this winter. In January 2014, the federation and the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries will begin a pilot project to remove abandoned fishing gear from northeastern North […]
NOAA Fisheries Published a Final Rule to Modify Management of Vermilion Snapper and Red Porgy in the South Atlantic (Rule becomes effective September 5, 2013) NOAA Fisheries published a final rule to implement Regulatory Amendment 18 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (Regulatory Amendment 18). The final […]
Coast Guard responds to boat allision with Bonner Bridge PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard responded Monday to an allision between a 58-foot charter boat with nine people aboard and the Bonner Bridge in Oregon Inlet, N.C. A concerned boater aboard the vessel West Wind witnessed the allision and contacted Coast Guard Sector North Carolina […]
Public Comment Sought on Proposed Fisheries Rules MOREHEAD CITY – The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries is accepting public comment on a slate of proposed rule changes on a proposal to give the division director proclamation authority to manage the sheepshead fishery and other topics. Three public hearings on the proposed rule changes […]
Commercial Harvest of Snowy Grouper in South Atlantic Waters Closes on August 10 Commercial harvest of snowy grouper in South Atlantic waters will close, at 12:01 a.m. (local time) on August 10, 2013. Commercial harvest will reopen at 12:01 a.m. (local time) on January 1, 2014. The 2013 commercial catch limit is 82,900 pounds gutted […]
NOAA proposes to designate critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles in NW Atlantic and Gulf In accordance with the statutory requirements of the Endangered Species Act, NOAA Fisheries today released for public comment a draft proposal to designate critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of […]
August 2013 Opening of Commercial and Recreational Red Snapper Season in the South Atlantic Federal Waters and Final Rule to Consider Future Seasons This Fishery Bulletin announces the August 2013 opening of red snapper in the South Atlantic and the publishing of the final rule for Amendment 28 to the Fishery Management Plan for the […]
