LEGISLATIVE UPDATE for 9/26/2022: GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Senator Bob Steinberg resigned from his Senate seat on July 31st. Starting next year he will be a registered lobbyist. Due to redistricting, he and Senator Norman Sanderson were put in the same district and Norman...
Below is a call to action sent out by David Sneed, Executive Director of the Coastal Conservation Association of NC (CCA), asking anglers to attend next weeks meeting of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council and oppose proposed measures to...
“Rachels and Ricks”, Valid Study or CCA Tricks? At the August Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) meeting, Amendment 2 to the Striped Bass FMP and the unjustified net ban in the upper Neuse and Pamlico Rivers was on the agenda once again. Amendment 2...
In our last update I asked our readers to evaluate the factuality of the CCA’s messaging and let us know how many misleading statements, half-truths, and outright lies they could find. Not surprisingly, we didn’t get many of our readers to take us up on our request....
North Carolina has several important fisheries management plans (FMPs) that are due for an update in the near future. Striped mullet and speckled trout are regulated by NCDMF (Division) and these FMPs will be updated through our state process. Whereas,...
Does CPR Work on Fish? The Coastal Conservation Association Seems to Think SO! After reading this title you’re probably envisioning a forty-pound Red Drum lying on the deck of a boat, straddled by an angler, receiving mouth to mouth...
