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Conservation groups take shots at proposed development

The Coastal Conservation League has joined officials of the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge in opposing a 5,000-acre development near the refuge which they fear could irreversibly harm the sensitive coastal environment. […]

A decommissioned armored personnel carrier, once owned by the S.C. National Guard, is sunk to add structure to the Beaufort 45 artificial reef.

SCDNR, National Guard enlarge Beaufort 45 reef

Pat Robertson

The last deployment of 32 armored personnel carriers decommissioned by the South Carolina Army National Guard was 45 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean eight miles off Port Royal Sound where they are now part of a condominium for fish.

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Matt Watson (second from left) and the crew of Chaos won the wahoo division of the Carolina Billfish Classic with this 52.4-pound fish.

Last-minute release of blue marlin gives Caramba back-to-back wins

Jeff Dennis

With legal fishing time running out on the final day of the inaugural Carolina Billfish Classic, angler Hovie Akin hooked up with a blue marlin, the release of which gave Capt. Dale Lackey’s Caramba its second-straight win in a South Carolina Governor’s Cup Billfish Classic.
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If approved, a new fedreal measure would continue the current red snapper closure off the North Carolina coast and add an all-out bottom-fishing ban in a stretch of water from southern Georgia into northeastern Florida.

South Atlantic Fisheries Managament Council action aims to maintain closure of red snapper fishing

From News Reports

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council on Wednesday (June 9) accepted a measure that would continue the current closure of the red snapper fishery off the coast of South Carolinas, but would shut down all bottom fishing from southern Georgia to northeast Florida, the council announced. […]

South Carolina's recreational retailindustry would be crippled if the current red snapper fishing ban is expanded, a new report shows.

Expanded red snapper ban would result in ‘economic battering’ of South Carolina recreational retail industry

From News Reports

A recent economic study shows an expansion of the current South Atlantic red snapper fishing ban in federal waters from North Carolina to the Florida Atlantic coast would result in “economic battering” of the recreational fishing retail marketing in the region, the American Sportfishing Association reported yesterday (June 8). […]