15th ANNUAL BALD HEAD ISLAND FISHING RODEO RESULTS Total Boats: 18 Day 1: Radiator Overflow not fishing Day 2: Impulsive, Radiator Overflow OVERALL TOURNAMENT WINNERS First Place Captain Ken Coffer, Carolina Beach, NC Desperado 273.68 $4,860 Second Place Captain Jerry Hedge, Wallace N.C. Pure Country 196.46 $2,916 Third Place Captain John Harriss, Wilmington, N.C. Carolina […]
COAST GUARD INVESTIGATING INCREASE IN VESSEL COLLISIONS PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The U.S. Coast Guard is reminding licensed mariners, commercial fishing vessel captains and recreational boaters about the importance of complying with the Nautical Rules of the Road after an unusually high number of vessel collisions at the end of May. “In each case the collision […]
USCG CUTTER EAGLE SAILS IN FOR 30TH ANNUAL NORFOLK HARBORFEST PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle will participate in the Norfolk’s Harborfest 2006 Parade of Sail Friday, June 9. As the sole tall ship in United States government service, Eagle uniquely executes its two primary missions of training and representation. The demands […]
Georgetown Blue Marlin tournament hosts second leg of billfishing series Forty-eight boats braved the weather during the second tournament in the 18th season of the South Carolina Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series, the Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament, when it was held May 17-20 at the Georgetown Landing Marina. The Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series features five tournaments […]
Atlantic white-cedar wetlands being restored in South Carolina Atlantic-white-cedar swamps, which were once a common part of the South Carolina landscape but have largely disappeared, are the focus of several restoration efforts in the state. Nationwide attention will be drawn to Atlantic white-cedar ecosystems during a June 6-8 symposium to be held in Atlantic City, […]
NMFS Announces 2006 Bluefin Quotas and Effort Controls For a full description of this action please visit the library. The BFT retention limits are as follows: The coastwide General category Atlantic BFT fishery will reopen on June 1, 2006. The daily retention limit will be three large medium or giant BFT (73 inches or greater) […]
THE BLUE MARLIN ARE OUT THERE!Crystal Watters On the last day of the Swansboro Rotary Tournament, angler Butch Bryant aboard his father’s boat Maggie caught at big blue marlin weighing in at 553 lbs. to win the annual Memorial Day Tournament.“It took us about an hour and a half to get it to the boat”, […]
Sportfishing Coalition Lauds Improvements to Fisheries Bill by House Resources Committee WASHINGTON – A coalition of leading recreational angling and conservation organizations welcomed today’s action in the U.S. House of Representatives to advance an update of the country’s most important marine fisheries law. The House Resources Committee voted to send H.R. 5018, the American Fisheries […]
Extension of Comment Period on Striped Bass On April 24, NOAA Fisheries announced its intention to re-open the scoping process on the recommendations contained in Amendment 6 to Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Striped Bass. NOAA Fisheries originally conducted scoping on the matter in 2003, but decided to re-open […]
COAST GUARD RESCUES AND ASSISTS 48 BOATERS OVER WEEKEND PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard Fifth District crews rescued or assisted 48 boaters over the course of Memorial Day weekend. In 53 total cases, units from Atlantic City, N.J., to Wilmington, N.C., responded to distress calls, flare sightings and medical emergencies. The Fifth District’s area of […]
