This month my friend, Dewey, gave an interview in local trade magazine Tradewinds about offshore wind and its impact on North Carolina’s commercial fleet specifically our local tuna boats. Dewey is a commercial longline fisherman who serves on the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel for NOAA Fisheries in addition to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. In this interview (included at the end) Dewey explains how the Federal Government’s leasing…
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Snowball Fight: The Constant Battle for Snowy Grouper
The June meeting of the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council is this week – final approval of preferred actions on Snowy Grouper Amendment 51 are on the agenda for Wednesday. The latest stock assessment for Snowy indicates the stock is overfished and undergoing overfishing….still after…
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Welcome to the World of Commercial Fishing
In the fishing world, it feels like we have been unofficially silenced – anything we say or do will be used against us in a court of public opinion. It will be seen as a crime against something by someone, somewhere. It will create controversy,…