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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
RALEIGH — As Eddie Bridges recalls, there were really only two things for young men like himself growing up in Burke County to do back in the days following the end of World War II. […]
MOREHEAD CITY—Good things come to those who wait, as Top Dog proved with an overtime win at the 61st annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. The Maryland-based boat was one of five competitors with a […]
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