Press Releases

The state marine fisheries agency will hold a public hearing on a proposed shellfish/water column lease in New Hanover County at 6 p.m. on Sept. 7 at the Department of Environmental Quality Wilmington Regional Office, 127 Cardinal Street, Wilmington.

The state’s marine fisheries division will hold two meetings this month to explain new flounder reporting requirements for pound net fishermen.

The meetings will be held as follows:

The Standard Commercial Fishing License Eligibility Board of the state’s division of marine fisheries will meet at 10:30 a.m., Sept. 28 at the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Wilmington Regional Office, 127 North Cardinal Drive Extension, Wilmington.

After news reports and editorials inaccurately and unfairly characterized the state’s efforts to protect drinking water, the North Carolina departments of Health and Human Services and Environmental Quality release the following open editorial:

Dean Nelson is the new colonel of the North Carolina Marine Patrol, and it is not a job he takes lightly.

With 21 years of experience with Marine Patrol, he knows the responsibilities that come with it.

The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission will meet Aug. 17-19 at the Doubletree by Hilton University Brownstone, 1707 Hillsborough St., Raleigh.

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 up the

The state’s marine fisheries division today rescinded a regulation requiring seafood dealers to hold a special permit to buy flounder from pound net fishermen and to report those landings daily.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