Press Releases
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality…
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is inviting the public to follow the Division of Marine Fisheries’ new accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NCMarineFisheries Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NC_DMF […]
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries Standard Commercial Fishing…
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries Standard Commercial Fishing License Eligibility Board will meet by teleconference at 10:30 a.m. on April 5. The board will consider license applications that […]
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently…
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently certified a new state record Common Thresher (Alopias vulpinus). Steven Viltoft, of Southport, caught the 589-pound, 1-ounce shark near the Knuckle Buoy off […]
Adaptive Management under Amendment 3…
Adaptive Management under Amendment 3 to the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan allows for a March 1 to April 15 recreational season for ocellated flounder in the Atlantic Ocean if […]
A recreational spring season for ocellated flounder will not occur in…
A recreational spring season for ocellated (Gulf and summer) flounder will not occur in 2023, as preliminary data from the 2022 recreational flounder season (Sept. 1-30, 2022) indicates that removals […]