Even in the current depressed economy, fishermen plan their vacations around catching fish. It’s the opinion of many fishermen that North Carolina is losing out on plenty of tourist dollars that could wind up in the state’s economy if the legislature designates red drum, speckled trout and striped bass as gamefish. […]
Charles Brown of Gloucester hails from a fifth-generation Down East fishing family, and proudly proclaims, “I’ve done it all.” […]
Joe Albea, 57, remembers when Pamlico Sound was full of big croakers and gray trout, along with many other species. […]
The commercial shrimping season closes in state waters at 7 p.m. on Jan. 17, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources announced. […]
Two numbers jump out of the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries’ 2010 report on the state of the Tarheel State’s saltwater fisheries. […]
The General Assembly’s Committee on Marine Fisheries tasked with recommending changes to the management of saltwater fisheries held its first meeting yesterday (Jan. 4), and listened to North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Director Louis Daniel III and N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Executive Director Gordon Myers. […]
Anyone in the recreational or commercial fishing camps who believes the North Carolina General Assembly’s Saltwater Review Committee will be a rubber stamp for their view of saltwater resources management is probably mistaken, a co-chairman of the committee told North Carolina Sportsman. […]
Big fatty fish bring the highest prices at market, and small bluefins are of low value. […]
Commercial fishermen pursue bluefin tuna in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Bringing as much as $100 per pound at wholesale auctions, they represent the gold bar, the dollar and the euro rolled into one. […]
A yellowfin tuna tagged nine years ago off the South Carolina coast was caught last year along West Africa near Mauritania, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has learned. […]
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