Category: NC

STATE NEEDS MORE AGENTS TO SELL FISHING LICENSE

STATE NEEDS MORE AGENTS TO SELL FISHING LICENSEMOREHEAD CITY – The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are going on the road to scout out additional agents to sell the state’s Coastal Recreational Fishing License. Staff from the DMF and WRC will hold meetings to review license requirements and to […]

THREE PEOPLE RECOVERED FROM WATER AFTER BOATS COLLIDE

THREE PEOPLE RECOVERED FROM WATER AFTER BOATS COLLIDE BALTIMORE – Three people were recovered from the water today after a collision between a tug boat and a fishing boat. Coast Guard controllers received a report from the tug Richard Larry at 2 p.m. that there was a collision between the tug Richard Lowry and a […]

Coast Guard Searches for Missing Fisherman

Coast Guard Searches for Missing Fisherman HOBUCKEN, N.C. – The Coast Guard resumed its search today for a North Carolina crab fisherman who went missing on the Pamlico River Monday. Steven Powers, 53, a Aurora, N.C., resident’s 21-foot fishing boat was reported doing circles, without a pilot, in the Pamlico River between Durham Creek and […]

Coast Guard Coordinates Rescue of American Fire Crew

Coast Guard Coordinates Rescue of American Fire Crew PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Two women were rescued from their capsized 24-foot rowboat, American Fire, 1,300 miles east of Puerto Rico this morning. The Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center (RCC), located in Portsmouth, coordinated the rescue of two women, Sarah Kessans, 22, and Emily Kohl, 23, both of […]

Coast Guard Searches for Missing Crewman

Coast Guard Searches for Missing Crewman PORTSMOUTH, Va.- The Coast Guard is searching for the captain of the cargo ship Agaman who fell overboard 190 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C., at 5 p.m. today. The Agaman and a C-130 Search and Rescue plane from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., are conducting search patterns of […]

Coast Guard Suspends Search for Overdue Boaters

Coast Guard Suspends Search for Overdue Boaters PORTSMOUTH, Va.- The Coast Guard has suspended the search for three overdue boaters on the James River this afternoon. The Coast Guard recovered the body of Lewis Mclean, 53, a Suffolk resident one mile south of the James River Bridge at 11 a.m. today, Kelton Troup, 14 and […]

Coast Guard Responds to Capsized Rowboat

Coast Guard Responds to Capsized Rowboat PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is responding to an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) signal it recieved today, from a capsized rowboat located 1,300 miles east of Puerto Rico. The rowboat, American Fire, was taking part in the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race, a trans-Atlantic rowboat race from […]

Coast Guard Searches for Overdue Boaters

Coast Guard Searches for Overdue Boaters PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard is searching the James River for three boaters who were reported overdue at 11 p.m. Saturday night. The boaters were fishing onboard the 23-foot blue and white fishing boat Reel Naughty. A 41-foot search and rescue boat from Station Portsmouth, the Coast Guard […]

BLACK SEA BASS â€ââââ

BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01A.M., Monday, January 16, 2006, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15.3’N. Latitude):I. SIZE LIMITIt is unlawful to possess black sea […]

COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS â€

COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – ATLANTIC OCEANPreston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Monday, January 16, 2006, the following restrictions shall apply to the commercial flounder fishery:I. HARVEST LIMITSA. During the period beginning at 12:01 A.M., Monday, January 16, 2006 and ending at 6:00 P.M., Monday, January […]