Press Releases
Releases – December 2020
A recreational fishing group has dropped a lawsuit that claimed without evidence that the state fisheries agency is violating the federal Clean Water Act in its management of shrimp trawling […]
Releases – November 2020
In a press release from the US Department of Justice, the DOJ announced that a North Carolina seafood processor pleaded guilty to selling at least $250,000 retail market value of […]
Releases – October 2020
Based on the best available landings information, NOAA Fisheries has determined that the Atlantic blue marlin, white marlin, and roundscale spearfish 250-landings limit has been met and exceeded for 2020. […]
Releases – September, 2020
Dolphin are critically important to the recreational fishery in the South Atlantic, and yet manipulations by federal fisheries managers continue to encourage development of a directed longline fishery that could […]
Releases – August 2020
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council recently designated 30 artificial reef sites off North Carolina and four new sites off South Carolina as Special Management Zones (SMZ) that will now […]