LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Jerry Schill
There have been no fisheries related bill introduced this week, as of end of business on Wednesday.
H-169, The bill to make the Loggerhead Sea Turtle the state reptile is in the House Environment Committee.
The draft shellfish bill is still under review.
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION
Last week we listed the entire list of candidates and encouraged folks that are in the Third District to attend candidate forums or individual candidate meet and greet or fund raisers to meet them and learn more.
CANDIDATE FORUM IN NEW BERN
The Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association is holding a candidates’ forum on Friday, March 22nd at the Craven Community College in New Bern, Orringer Auditorium, 6:00pm.
Candidate Greg Murphy is having an event at a home in New Bern on Saturday, March 23rd from 5:00 to 7:00pm. Contact Lynda Blount for info: (252) 714-1164.
CANDIDATE FORUM IN NEW BERN
On April 15th, the following have agreed to speak to the God and Country Christian Alliance: Phil Law, Michelle Nix, Michael Speciale, Shannon Bray and Gary Ceres. I expect others will be added to that list as well.
If you know of any events for the Third District candidates, please let us know. The primary is April 30th!
Due to unexpected occurrences, we are sorry to let you know that our April/May 2019 Tradewinds issue will be postponed one month later than originally anticipated.
Recent Updates
Weekly Update: September 30, 2024
Ending Overfishing of Red Snapper NOAA Fisheries announced at the last South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council (SAFMC) meeting their intention to prepare a Secretarial Amendment to end overfishing of red snapper. In a press release following their...
Weekly Update: September 23, 2024
Advisory Committee Meetings For Blue Crab Adaptive Management Three of the Marine Fisheries Commission’s (MFC) advisory committees (AC) are meeting this week to discuss potential adaptive management options for reducing blue crab harvest. The most recent stock...
Weekly Update: September 16, 2024
SAFMC Meeting This Week The South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council (SAFMC) meets this week in Charleston, South Carolina. Although this meeting is a little light on specific North Carolina issues there are still a few items of interest to be aware of....
Weekly Update: September 09, 2024
Speckled Trout Quiz Lately, whether due to a general lack of knowledge or simply parroting the constant stream of misinformation, there seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the management of our coastal fisheries, like Speckled Trout for example....
Weekly Update: September 02, 2024
More Speckled Trout Reductions Than Necessary These graphs are copied and pasted directly from the NC Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) Spotted Seatrout Scoping Document. Can someone please explain to me why this triggered a harvest reduction of 19.9% to...
Weekly Update: August 26, 2024
Trout Management vs Flounder Management The first North Carolina southern flounder Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) was adopted in 2005 and 20 years later we are looking at a harvest moratorium for recreational anglers. Speckled trout (Spotted seatrout) management...
Weekly Update: August 19, 2024
Here We Go Again! Instead of giving you the upcoming Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) meeting details like I would normally do this week, I want you to read one of our previous Updates that our Executive Director Glenn Skinner wrote on March 7, 2022. After the...
Weekly Update: August 12, 2024
Spotted Sea (Speckled) Trout Comments Due As most of you know, we are about midway through updating the Spotted Sea Trout FMP (Fisheries Management Plan). Comments are again needed at this stage of the management process! Written comments and in person...