UPDATED, Tuesday 2:45 p.m.: Due to the winter storm forecast to hit the area on Wednesday, the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission meeting scheduled for this week in Kitty Hawk has been postponed to March 12-13.
EARLIER STORY: For the first time since November 2018, the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a regularly scheduled meeting in Dare County later this month.
The nine-member panel that oversees regulation of fishing in the marine and estuarine waters of North Carolina will gather at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kitty Hawk for three days of meetings on Feb. 19-21.
Commercial and recreational fishing advocates and local leaders have been calling for the commission to hold at least one quarterly meeting per year in the northeast corner of the state.
The panel’s previous chair had been content with just holding their meetings along the central coast, including in New Bern, Beaufort, and Emerald Isle in 2024.
That met the commission’s statutory requirement that at least three meetings each year in coastal regions, and one meeting in Raleigh.
