Flounder fight deepens as Marine Fisheries chair reiterates no 2024 recreational season

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The war of words, and differing strategies, over a 2024 recreational flounder season in North Carolina waters continued this week, as the head of the commission that oversees the state’s coastal waters said they will be sticking to their original plans of keeping the fishery closed. Rob Bizzell, chair of the N.C. Marine […]

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Wildlife Resources Commission approves recreational flounder season in certain waters

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The battle over whether or not there will be a recreational flounder season in North Carolina waters this year intensified last week, as the state Wildlife Resources Commission voted to open a four-day season in waters under their jurisdiction in September. In a letter from Wildlife Resources Chairman Monty Crump to Marine Fisheries […]

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Recent rains help some areas of North Carolina bust drought while rest of the state suffers

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com The recent heavy rainfall has helped bring some parts of eastern North Carolina out of drought conditions, but the rest of the state continues to dry out even further. According to Thursday’s update of the N.C. Drought Monitor map, Currituck, Camden, and parts of Pasquotank and Gates counties are the only parts of […]

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Dare commissioners approve moving up Buxton, Avon beach nourishment projects to 2026

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com With erosion occurring more rapidly than expected off Buxton, the Dare County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to shift the next beach renourishment project to 2026. Buxton’s stretch of beach took a beating this past fall and winter from offshore hurricanes and repeated nor’easters, including one of the worst incidents of erosion since […]

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