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Monthly Archives: January, 2010

Outer Banks Angling: No winter blues on the islands; instead it’s a winter blitz

Local News Rob Alderman -
It has been a relatively slow couple months of fishing on the Banks. In fact, the past four winters or so haven’t been that...

Saving Serendipity

Editor's Blog Irene Nolan -
The beach cottage Serendipity is without a doubt the second most photographed structure on Hatteras Island ? after the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.And the...

Inspector General’s report is critical of NOAA’s fisheries law enforcement

Local News Staff Reporter -
The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a report yesterday that was stingingly critical of the National Oceanic and...

Ocracoke’s oystering tradition is ready to make a comeback

Local News Pat.Garber -
Gathering the oddly shaped shellfish Crassostrea virginica, better known as the common oyster, has long been an important part of Ocracoke Island’s fishing tradition,...

Marine Fisheries moves toward gill net ban in large areas of coastal waters

Local News Susan West -
Fishermen would see large sections of coastal waters closed to larger mesh gill nets from May 15 through Dec. 15 under a proposal developed...
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NCDOT to hold public meetings on Ocracoke South Dock Study

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Susann Stokes Wright

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Traffic lights in Hatteras Village will be replaced with stop signs

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Cora Lee O’Neal

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