Press Releases
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently certified a new state record Red Hind (Epinephelus guttatus). Christopher Rocci, of Morehead City, caught the 10-pound, 2.4-ounce fish 45 miles offshore of […]
The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries will implement adaptive management with a harvest moratorium in the Albemarle Sound Management Area. Despite recent management actions taken by the N.C. Marine […]
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries announced the 2023 commercial estuarine flounder season opening dates by Southern Flounder Management Area and Gear Category. All pound net management areas will open […]
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) and the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) have partnered on a three-year stocking effort to aid in restoring Striped Bass populations in the […]
How much blue crab was harvested commercially and recreationally last year? What’s going on with striped bass in the two management areas? What did the division see in its sampling […]