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1 week ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Joy Crist |Trista Talton
For the first time in the event’s history, the Rodanthe Fishing Pier will host the annual Disabled Veteran/Wounded Warrior Fishing Jamboree on May 10, thanks to a collaboration with a pair of veterans who have been organizing similar fishing events for years. Dave Goodman and John McAllister are residents of Hertford, N.C., and are members of the Bear Swamp/Beech Springs Ruritans, a civic service club that has branches all across the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Trista Talton |Joy Crist
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries will begin renewing commercial fishing, seafood dealer and for-hire licenses and permits on April 15, and the Division is asking fishermen go ahead and get this business done in April or May. Those who renew in these months may find reduced wait times, as opposed to those who wait until late June. Another way to avoid long lines is to renew by mail or drop-box or schedule an appointment for April or May.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Trista Talton |Joy Crist
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries has extended the Spotted Seatrout cold stun harvest closure through June 30, in accordance with the state’s fishery management plan. The Division had previously closed coastal and joint fishing waters in North Carolina to both recreational and commercial spotted seatrout harvest on January 24 due to widespread cold stun events.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Joy Crist |Mark Jurkowitz |Trista Talton |Sam Walker
On Saturday, April 26, from 10 am to 1 pm, the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Civic Association (RWSCA) will host its third annual Earth Day Celebration at the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Building, 23646 NC Hwy 12 in Rodanthe (across from the Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station). Festivities will be held rain or shine. Check out the “Plant Swap” (take some/leave some) and pick up free native plants, including cardinal flowers, swamp milkweed, and more.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Joy Crist |Mark Jurkowitz |Trista Talton |Sam Walker
Meet the Outer Banks SPCA pet of the week, courtesy of their latest video produced by Dare County’s CURRENT TV. For more information on this pet and the many other Outer Banks pets currently up for adoption, visit the Outer Banks SPCA website at https://www.obxspca.org/ or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/obxspca/
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Joy Crist |Trista Talton |Sam Walker
Two annual ceremonies are returning in 2025 to honor the World War II British and Canadian sailors who lost their lives off the Outer Banks 83 years ago. In early May, representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, U.S. Navy, British Royal Navy, and National Park Service will come together at the British cemeteries on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands to honor the 63 foreign sailors who perished while protecting our coast.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Trista Talton |Joy Crist |Kip Tabb
From CoastalReview.orgA pilot study tracking a popular saltwater fish was not expected to yield as much information as it did in its first year. When the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries and its nonprofit project partner, the North Carolina Marine and Estuary Foundation, launched its red drum study last year, researchers thought the pop-off point where a satellite tag detached from a fish would be the most important piece of information they would glean.
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2 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Joy Crist |Trista Talton |Kip Tabb
After a winter of various repairs and updates, the Rodanthe Fishing Pier will reopen for the 2025 season on Saturday, April 5, at 7:00 a.m.There have been multiple improvements at the Rodanthe Pier over the past few years, which includes a new ramp that was installed in 2020, and a number of structural repairs that were necessary after various nor’easters. In the 2024 winter season, 10 new pilings were installed after storm damage that occurred in the fall.
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3 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Joy Crist |Trista Talton |Kip Tabb
On Friday, March 28, Captain Tim Hagerich of Black Pearl Charters had a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with an estimated 1,800-pound great white shark just off the coast of northern Ocracoke Island. “I have spent thousands and thousands of hours in the ocean, and I have only seen one great white shark in my entire life, and that was a small one at about eight feet,” said Hagerich.
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3 weeks ago | 
islandfreepress.org | Trista Talton |Joy Crist |Kip Tabb |Sam Walker
Anglers who catch Bluefin Tuna and billfishes in North Carolina no longer need to report those catches to the state. As of Tuesday, April 1, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries has discontinued its Highly Migratory Species Catch Card Program.
