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Frustration mounting over gamefish bill delay
Nobody said getting a gamefish bill for red drum, spotted seatrout and striped bass passed by the North Carolina General Assembly and signed into law by the governor would be easy. […]
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Poster child for greed? See Big Rock fight
National Football League fans will wail and gnash their teeth if the league and its players don’t settle a labor lockout before September. […]
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Check the fine print for urban archery shots
Chapel Hill has always been a little, uh, different. […]
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MFC decisions confirm pro-commercial stance
The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission is completely broken, always has been broken, and has been willingly corrupted and co-opted by the influence of a small but powerful group of special interests. […]
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In January, Mother Nature closed one Tarheel State fishery and caused a major change in a long-standing N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission regulation. […]
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Solving speck problem easy as gamefish status
On Dec. 6, 2010, John Ritchie of Cape Carteret cast a MirrOlure into a Bogue Inlet feeder creek that flows near his backyard. […]
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MFC hatches dubious plot to rebuild specks
The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission made another astoundingly bad decision Nov. 22, ignoring state law in favor of the wants of a handful of strike netters who target speckled trout. […]
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Censorship fails public smell test
What does it ultimately mean when the executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission orders the agency’s monthly publication, Wildlife in North Carolina, pulled from an exhibit at the N.C. State Fair exhibit and from other venues across the state? […]
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Loss of NC streams is politics as usual
It became clear during the latest judicial appeals processes that tried to halt Mountain Air Development Corporation’s (MADC) destruction of a trout stream on land it owns at Mountain Air Country Club that the group with the deepest pocketbook would win. […]
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OBX residents face another access loss
Frank Folb, who owns Frank & Fran’s tackle shop at Avon, admits his comment about a Washington, D.C., federal judge’s decision was one percent hyperbole and 99 percent frustration. […]