Nov 30, 2022

Young fishermen are struggling. Where will you get reliable seafood if they don't survive?

Too few young commercial fishers are coming in to replace the aging workforce. 

“It’s an industry that is truly dying.  There are so few people getting

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Nov 30, 2022

Happy National (seafood😉) Fritters Day

"No matter how tired we were at the end of the work day, enough energy always remained to fry up a batch of seafood fritters."

Seafood fritters are a traditional

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Nov 15, 2022

How gill nets really work in North Carolina

Gillnetting takes a lot of undeserved heat in North Carolina.

Our state’s commercial fishers collaborate closely with scientists and fishery managers to make sure gillnets are fished responsibly. “Gillnets are

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Sep 21, 2022

The spots are running! A fall favorite fish

Two unofficial “holidays” will coax people away from their jobs on the North Carolina coast: the ACC college basketball tournament and the fall spot fishing season.

Word gets around quickly.

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Aug 30, 2022

He salvaged metal and worked dusk to dawn to build a shrimp boat

"I always wanted a steady job. Something I could depend on. And that’s when I started the boat," Harry Bryant told journalist Melody Hunter-Pillion in the summer 2022 issue of

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Aug 15, 2022

These people make decisions about your seafood

When it comes to harvesting local seafood in North Carolina, who can fish, where they can fish and when is decided by the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission, and

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