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Current News Releases By Headline

JULY 2019

Marine Fisheries encourages donation of red snapper carcasses and catch reporting

Fishermen Encouraged to Use Best Practices and Assist with Data Collection During Red Snapper Opening

JUNE 2019

Notice of Offshore Bathymetric Survey Activity June–October 2019

MEDIA ADVISORY: Blue Crab Advisory Committee meeting scheduled

Council Launches its First Citizen Science Pilot Project

MEDIA ADVISORY: Public hearing scheduled on proposed shellfish lease in Pender County

Grant money available for transient recreational boating facilities

REMINDER: Elizabeth City office of Division of Marine Fisheries has moved

MEDIA ADVISORY: Commercial Fishing Resource Funding committees to meet June 19

Marine Fisheries Commission moves toward commercial and recreational flounder seasons

MAY 2019

MEDIA ADVISORY: Marine Fisheries Commission to meet June 6 to discuss southern flounder

Alternate webpage created for information and public comment on southern flounder management proposals

MEDIA ADVISORY: May 29 meeting of Commercial Fishing Resource Funding committees cancelled

Division of Marine Fisheries accepting public comment on southern flounder management proposals
Significant harvest reductions needed to end overfishing and rebuild overfished stock

MEDIA ADVISORY: Public hearing scheduled on proposed shellfish lease in Carteret County (correction)

MEDIA ADVISORY: Public hearing scheduled on proposed shellfish lease in Carteret County

MEDIA ADVISORY: Commercial Fishing Resource Funding committees to meet May 29

MEDIA ADVISORY: Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee to meet

MEDIA ADVISORY: Marine Fisheries Commission to meet May 15-17 in Jacksonville

APRIL 2019

May 1st Triggers Opening of Shallow-Water Grouper and Other Species in the South Atlantic

MEDIA ADVISORY: Coastal Habitat Protection Plan Steering Committee

State creates no gill net corridor along ocean surf zone to reduce bottlenose dolphin interactions

MEDIA ADVISORY: Workshops scheduled to train fish taggers

Forty-one readopted rules effective today, but little changes

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