State recreational water quality officials today lifted a water quality swimming alert at a sound-side site in Carteret County.
State recreational water quality officials today lifted a water quality swimming alert at a sound-side site in Carteret County.
State recreational water quality officials today lifted a water quality swimming alert at a sound-side site in Carteret County.
State recreational water quality officials today lifted a water quality swimming alert at a sound-side site in Carteret County.
The front page of the 2016 Annual Fisheries Bulletin and subsequent news release issued May 25 inadvertently reported the 2015 top five recreationally-harvested species, by pounds, as the 2016 top five recreationally-harvested species, by pounds.
State recreational water quality officials today are alerting the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Carteret County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state and Environmental Protection Agency’s recreational water quality swimming standards.
State recreational water quality officials today are alerting the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Carteret County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state and Environmental Protection Agency’s recreational water quality swimming standards.
State officials today authorized Duke Energy to operate a double-lined, industrial landfill that will be used to store coal ash and other wastes at the utility’s Dan River Steam Station in Rockingham County.
A warm autumn kept commercial fishermen catching and selling shrimp up to New Year’s Eve last year, boosting 2016 shrimp landings to the highest since the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Trip Ticket Program began in 1994. But overall, the 60 million pounds of finfish and shellfish commercial fishermen caught and sold at the docks was a 9 percent decrease from 2015. The total estimated dockside value of $94 million was about $700,000 short of the 2015 value.
Coastal recreational fishermen hooked fewer fish in 2016 than they did in 2015.
Anglers brought an estimated 8.5 million fish to the docks in 2016, a decrease of 18 percent from 2015.