Fishermen would see large sections of coastal waters closed to larger mesh gill nets from May 15 through Dec. 15 under a proposal developed by the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries. The proposed restrictions were presented in a Jan. 11 letter from Louis Daniel, state Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) chief, to Roy Crabtree, […]

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Hatteras seafood dealer Jeff Aiken reached the Mt. Kilimanjaro summit Friday afternoon, Jan 29.  In an interview before he began the week long climb, Aiken said he wanted to use the opportunity to raise public awareness about the challenges facing commercial fishing families and to raise funds for Commercial Fishermen of America, a coalition of […]

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….WITH VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW ….WITH VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW The journey of Serendipity, the “Nights in Rodanthe” beach house, resumed pretty close to on schedule on Monday morning, January 18, and once the hulking building got rolling it took just 22 minutes to get it to its new space down Highway 12. People lined […]

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….WITH SLIDE SHOW ….WITH SLIDE SHOW Jim Matyiko moved Serendipity off the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Jan. 15, but not as far as he wanted to, and not as far as project general manager Mike Price kept telling onlookers the house would go. Through a long day of what appeared to be challenges for the […]

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Protected Areas Center, in cooperation with the Department of the Interior (DOI), has created a first-ever inventory of the nation’s marine protected areas.  This unique, comprehensive inventory catalogs and classifies marine protected areas within U.S. waters.  Thirty-two sites, including 21 units of the National Park system […]

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Serendipity, the most famous beach cottage on Hatteras Island these days, may be moved out of harm’s way on Friday. The new owners, Ben and Debbie Huss of Newton, N.C., are moving it from its location as the northernmost house on Hatteras, where it is threatened by severe erosion, to an oceanside lot about a […]

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Commercial and recreational fishermen, two groups often at odds with each other when it comes to fisheries management, plan to march together on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C. Organized under the slogan United We Fish, commercial and recreational fishermen, affiliated businesses, and coastal community leaders will gather on the steps of the Capitol from noon […]

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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The Island Free Press is sponsoring a community forum on forecasting the weather on Hatteras and Ocracoke on Tuesday, Jan. 26, from 1 until 3 p.m. at the Community Building in Hatteras village. Guest speakers will include two meteorologists from the local National Weather Service office in Newport/Morehead City, […]

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By JOE WARD By JOE WARD Michelle Bogardus, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s 26-year-old lead sea turtle biotechnician on Hatteras Island loves sea turtles. “They are really interesting animals,” she observed on a recent turtle patrol. “So different from other species. They are in one of the oldest groups of animals in the world.” But […]

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