The National Marine Fisheries Service in August released its 2018 annual report on the status of U.S. fisheries to Congress, and the good news is that the total number of stocks on the overfishing list remained near all-time lows and one previously overfished stock was rebuilt. In addition, new information became available last year for […]
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Analysis of nearly 120 years of tropical storm and hurricane landing data and associated rainfall in coastal North Carolina shows that climate change is creating a feedback loop that suggests increasingly frequent flooding and economic damage are likely along the coast. That’s a general conclusion of research led by Hans Paerl, Kenan Professor of Marine […]
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It’s official: The influx of Asian tiger shrimp into North Carolina waters, the rest of the South Atlantic coast, and the Gulf of Mexico is significantly worrisome, if not downright frightening. Dr. James Morris, a marine ecologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research in Beaufort, said recently […]
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