Press Releases

North Carolina’s latest state record for scamp is also a pending world record catch.

Teddy Wingfield, a 9-year-old from Lookout Mountain, Tenn., reeled in the fish on June 2 while fishing in waters off of Atlantic Beach.

The environmental department today announced that the McCrory Administration has joined 15 other states in challenging the Obama administration’s latest regulation targeting oil and gas production.  The oil and gas rule is the latest in a string of federal regulations aimed at driving

The state’s marine fisheries division today rescinded a regulation requiring seafood dealers to hold a special permit to buy flounder from pound net fishermen and to report those landings daily.

The state environmental department, after consultation with the state health and human services department, the Mecklenburg County Health Department, the U.S.

The king mackerel are biting, but so are the Spanish mackerel, and fishermen are getting them confused.

If the air seems clearer in North Carolina these days, it’s not your imagination.

The Bald Head Island marina on Bald Head Island, and the Deep Point and Indigo Plantation marinas in Southport are the newest facilities to be certified as North Carolina Clean Marinas, a designation given to marinas that exceed minimum regulatory requirements.

WHERE: Eden Town Hall (Eden Room), 308 East Stadium Drive, Eden, N.C.

WHEN: 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 27 

WHO: Hosted by N.C. Department of Environmental Quality 

State officials urge people to avoid contact with potentially harmful algal blooms that have developed in the Edenton Bay in Chowan County due to recent hot weather.

The state’s marine fisheries division has postponed two meetings scheduled for next week to explain new flounder permit and reporting requirements for pound net fishermen and fish dealers.