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July 7, 2022

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Mercenaria wins more than $3.4M at Big Rock

June 22, 2022 Griffin Daughtry

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 […]

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Big Rock tournament underway in Morehead City

June 15, 2022 Griffin Daughtry

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 […]

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Hit by COVID, Senegal’s women find renewed hope in fishing

May 2, 2021 Carley Petesch, Associated Press

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 […]

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Pandemic has taken a bite out of seafood trade, consumption

November 27, 2020 Patrick Whittle, Associated Press

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 […]

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260 Chinese boats fish near Galapagos; Ecuador on alert

July 30, 2020 Gonzalo Solano and Christopher Torchia, Associated Press

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 […]

Everett Robbins (L) and James Robbins (R) fishing in a pond in Martin County, N.C.
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No fishing license needed to fish July 4

July 3, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH – July 4 is “free fishing day” in North Carolina where everyone — residents and non-residents alike — can fish in any public body of water from 12:01 a.m. to 11: 59 p.m., without […]

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Big Rock tournament off to fast start; Jordan’s boat lands 442-pound marlin

June 10, 2020 Neal Robbins

The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, a nine-day fishing tournament highlighted by the Monday through Saturday quest to catch the biggest blue marlin off the Crystal Coast, is underway for the 62nd straight year. According […]

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Social distancing with North Carolina shad

March 25, 2020 Cory Lavalette

WELDON — Weldon is known as the Rockfish Capital of the World because of the fish that swim up the Roanoke River to spawn usually starting in April. But before the striped bass really hit […]

Features

Fishermen return from sea with big catch, no place to sell

March 21, 2020 Julia Watson, Associated Press

SAN DIEGO – The coronavirus literally traveled over them from Asia to California while they were on the high seas catching tuna. They were as safe as anyone doing one of the most dangerous jobs, […]

Features

Legendary fisherman and captain Tillet dies at 90

July 12, 2019 North State Journal Staff

Legendary boat captain and fisherman Omie Jennings “Sportsman” Tillett, 90, of Wanchese, died Friday. Tillet was a Dare County native who, along with his father, Sambo, and brother, Tony, pioneered the Outer Banks’ offshore charter […]

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