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A tiny Z-scale model train operated by Mike Basher of Basher and Sons Hobbies rounds the bend during an appearance earlier this month at the 30th annual John Costlow Train Show at the North Carolina Maritime Museum Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center in Beaufort.
Our Coast’s History: Remembering 1930s Sneads Ferry
Aug 20, 2021 · Through Charles Farrell’s photographs of Sneads Ferry in the 1930s, historian David Cecelski learned the stories and people of the Onslow County fishing village.
Hundreds celebrate opening of bridge to Harkers Island
Dec 13, 2023 · The 3,200-foot-long, fixed-span bridge with a 45-foot navigational clearance is the first in the state to be built with mostly carbon-fiber reinforced steel, used to combat corrosion in coastal environments, officials said. The new bridge replaces two bridges that are more than 50 years old and badly deteriorated, despite the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s efforts to keep ...
‘Catastrophic crisis’: Imported shrimp flood US market
Nov 1, 2023 · Foreign shrimp imports are overwhelming the country’s inventories of shrimp and driving market prices for locally sourced shrimp to record lows, prompting widespread calls from elected officials and organizations throughout southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast states for the federal government to declare a fishery resource disaster.
Know What's On the Line: Sheepshead | Coastal Review
Jul 24, 2020 · “Management of sheepshead was first done as part of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s (SAFMC) Snapper/Grouper Fishery Management Plan.In April 2012, sheepshead were officially removed from the council’s management plan,” said Anne Markwith, conservation and fisheries biologist with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries.
Sam's Field Notes: Diversity of Carolina Crabs - Coastal Review
Mar 13, 2017 · Sam Bland spent much of his life out in the field as as a park ranger and park superintendent at the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation. Most of his 30 years with the division was spent at Hammocks Beach State Park near Swansboro where Sam specialized in resource management and environmental education.
What's On the Line? Know Your Flounder | Coastal Review
Aug 10, 2020 · “Approximately 90% of flounder caught in North Carolina waters are southern flounder,” he said. The 2020 recreational flounder season in North Carolina begins Aug. 16 and runs through Sept. 30.
On The Line: False Albacore - Coastal Review
Oct 5, 2020 · Both the regional management council and the federal government dropped little tunny from their plans that year. “Based on the information available at that time, false albacore did not seem to meet the federal national standard guidance for stocks in need of conservation and management,” she said.
$19.2M Hatteras Lighthouse restoration gets underway
Mar 4, 2024 · BUXTON — Scaffolding soon will completely encircle the swirling black and white bands of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse as contractors start construction of the first comprehensive project to restore the 1870 tower inside and out, top to bottom, including numerous historic features lost to time.
Strange Beauty: Jellyfish of the NC Coast - Coastal Review
Dec 29, 2020 · There are two types of jellyfish, or gelatinous zooplankton in North Carolina — true jellyfish and comb jellies, or ctenophores. True jellyfish pump water for propulsion by using the bell on top of their bodies to first contract and then relax their bodies to move water, hence pushing themselves forward in the water column.