Multiple Dare County fire departments and emergency agencies, including all Hatteras Island volunteer fire departments, responded to a major fire in Manns Harbor at the Manteo Furniture & Appliance Warehouse and Valentino Custom Boats Building on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 27. “It was the biggest fire response in Dare County that I’ve ever seen,” said Frank […]
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In a unanimous decision today, the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission voted to close striped mullet fishing on Saturday and Sunday from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 and on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 as its preferred fishery management for mullet during its quarterly business meeting today in New Bern. […]
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The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission will vote to approve the preferred fishery management plan for striped mullet on Thursday afternoon during its February business meeting in New Bern. After a stock assessment ending in 2019 from the North Carolina Department of Marine Fisheries found mullet is overfished and overfishing is occurring, the DMF recommended […]
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The Department of Environmental Quality is adding restrictions to mullet harvest after it found the stock is overfished. In a contentious meeting on Thursday, January 18, the Northern Regional Advisory Committee recommended weekend closures on commercial striped mullet harvest, including stop net harvesting, with a six to one vote. The advisory committee abstained from voting […]
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The new wastewater treatment operator estimates repairs to the plant will cost at least $1 million. The North Carolina Utilities Commission appointed Carolina Water Service Inc. as the emergency operator for the Kinnakeet Shores Wastewater Treatment Plant in Avon. Carolina Water Service began operations on Aug. 17. The homeowners in Kinnakeet Shores are “jubilant” at […]
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