Just before the start of Memorial Day weekend, the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission announced there would be no recreational flounder season this year. That means all those sportsmen looking forward to bagging a few […]
A local vessel has made International Game Fish Association Great Marlin Race history thanks to the blue marlin it tagged in 2022. Waste Knot, a 67-foot sportfisher owned by the Poole family, tagged the marlin […]
The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament is over, but the controversy surrounding its final results is not. The owner of the fishing boat Sensation, which had its 619.4-pound catch disqualified on Sunday morning due to […]
For just the second time since 2014, a blue marlin weighing under 500 pounds came away as the big winner at the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament — even though a bigger fish was weighed […]
After 254 of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament’s 271 competing boats motored out from Morehead City on Tuesday’s second day of the competition, just 14 headed offshore Wednesday due to a small craft advisory […]
MOREHEAD CITY — The Big Rock Foundation broke out the giant checks and the lie detectors this past weekend as its 64th annual Blue Marlin Tournament officially came to a close. Two hundred sixty-six boats […]
MOREHEAD CITY — If you went back in time to 1957 and asked locals whether you could catch billfish off the coast of North Carolina, they’d probably tell you it was nothing more than idle […]
BARGNY, Senegal — Since her birth on Senegal’s coast, the ocean has always given Ndeye Yacine Dieng life. Her grandfather was a fisherman, and her grandmother and mother processed fish. Like generations of women, she […]
PORTLAND, Maine — The coronavirus pandemic has hurt the U.S. seafood industry due to a precipitous fall in imports and exports and a drop in catch of some species. Those are the findings of a […]
QUITO, Ecuador — Some call it a floating city, a flotilla of 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago that is stirring diplomatic tension and raising worries about the threat to sharks, manta […]
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