Tradewinds - June-July 2019

COMPLIMENTARY

June/ July 2019

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Board of Directors The North Carolina Board of Directors is comprised of members representing all of the State’s coastal regions as well as the many facets of the industry gear type, targeted species, and commodity groups. The association elects its board members and officers annually.

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Tradewinds

A publication of the North Carolina Fisheries Association Tradewinds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world’s oceans for centuries. The captain of a sailing ship would seek a course along which the winds could be expected to blow in the direction of travel.

Tradewinds were important in the development of trade and provided a means of transportation and communications to isolated coast communities We are still isolated in a sense even with our modern ships, aircraft, telecommunications and the internet.

We need a connection from island to island, person to person…and to the rest of the world.

We hope that this Tradewinds will become as important to you as the Tradewinds were to our ancestors, not only to in-landers wanting to know more about the coast, but coastal people learning about other coastal people.

NCFA Staff: Glenn Skinner Executive Director Jerry Schill Director of Government Relations Aundrea O’Neal Administration & Accounting Tradewinds Editor Nikki Raynor Membership/Receptionist Tradewinds- Co-Editor 101 N. 5th Street Morehead City, NC 28557 Office: 252-726-(NCFA)6232 | Fax:252-726-6200 www.ncfish.org

Tradewinds is proud to announce that our publication will now be archived at: North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library University of Chapel Hill, NC 2

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Though every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of all advertising and copy contained herein, the publisher may not be held responsible for typographical errors. The NC Fisheries Association reserves the right to refuse any advertising or editorial deemed inappropriate. The agency, its employees, agents or representatives may not be held responsible for any actions or consequences derived as a result of following advice or instructions contained herein. ©2019

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From the Chairman.................. 4

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From Glenn Skinner................. 5 Nikki Raynor............................. 6

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From Your Editor...................... 6 A Word From Jerry................... 7 CCFA Sponsors....................... 9 Brown’s Island 9 Striking Mullet.................... 10-11 What to Know & Where to Go... 13 Mailboat: Salter Path - A Brief History to 1923 ................. 14-15 Bill Hitchcock............................ 17 N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission: The state policy-making board...18 Core Sound Waterfowl Museum......................21 Captain’s Spotlight................. 23

FEATURE STORY

Barbour’s Marine Supply Co. Celebrates 100 years of Service............................................ 24-25 Marketplace.........................................................27 Talk on the Dock: What’s for Supper............ 28-29 Bluewater Fisherman’s Association....................31 AMSEA.......................................................... 32-33 Affiliate News .....................................................35

On the Cover: Beaufort, NC

Photo by: Thomas Smith

Anglers & Shrimpers Vie for Fishing Rights................... 36-37 Red...Right............................. 39 NOAA..................................... 41 Councils & Commissions....... 43 Tred Barta.............................. 47

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TW Disclaimer: Articles and letters appearing in Tradewinds are the opinions of the authors and unless specifically noted may or may not reflect the opinions or official positions of the North Carolina Fisheries Association.

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Chairman, Brent Fulcher

A word from the chairman ...

THIRD DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL RACE IS IMPORTANT!

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hope all of the folks that make up the commercial fishing community know that we have had a special primary election last month for the Third Congressional District. The death of Walter B. Jones, Jr., a good friend of commercial fishermen, left a vacancy that needs to be filled.

As a result of the primary, Republicans Greg Murphy from Greenville and Joan Perry from Kinston will face a runoff on July 9th.

Democrat Allen Thomas won that primary and Tim Harris won the for the Libertarian Party. Constitution Party candidate Greg Holt did not have a primary. Once the Republicans choose their candidate, the winner will be decided when the General Election is held September 10th.

NCFA has done its best to keep the commercial fishing community informed by publicizing candidate forums, meet and

greet and fund raisers for those candidates that let us know about their schedules. We don’t endorse candidates as an organization but do attempt to educate our members as much as we can, mainly through our updates sent each Friday. We also sent questionnaires about commercial fishing to candidates and the answers have been distributed through our weekly updates and published on social media.

The Third District Congressional seat is a very important one. Please make sure you make an educated choice on July 9th if you vote in the Republican primary, but definitely be present to place your ballot September 10th for the General Election. Don’t complain if you don’t participate!

Whether it be this race or other state or local elections, if you think protecting commercial fishing is important, you need to, at the very least, be registered to vote and cast your votes in an educated manner.

Brent Fulcher, Chairman Photo: NCDMF

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NCFA Executive Director, Glenn Skinner

A thought from Glenn ...

NCWF SUBMITS PETITION ON SHRIMP TRAWLING

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n May 20, 2019, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation (NCWF) submitted a petition for rulemaking to the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC), that if passed, would severely restrict shrimp trawling in North Carolina. This is the third such petition to be submitted in the last six years, and the second to be drafted by the NCWF. The petitioners claim their goal is to reduce the bycatch of juvenile fish in shrimp trawls, but the failure of the two previous petitions has proven the petition-for-rulemaking process to be costly and ineffective. The previous petition submitted by the NCWF in 2016 (which was determined to be dead earlier this year) proved to be a substantial waste of time and valuable state resources, which raises the question of why they would choose to submit another one. North Carolina already has a shrimp Fishery Management Plan (FMP), and since shrimp are considered to be an annual crop which cannot be overfished, the primary function of the plan has been to reduce the bycatch of non-target species. Since 2006, managers have used the FMP process to successfully reduce bycatch in the shrimp trawl fishery, and the 2015 adoption of Amendment 1 to the shrimp FMP led to some amazing results.

Amendment 1 formed an Industry Workgroup made up of fishermen, gear experts, and scientists who conducted a three-year study of different Bycatch Reduction Devices (BRD’s) and gear configurations. These studies resulted in a requirement for NC shrimpers to use devices that have been proven to reduce the bycatch of finfish by 40% more than the 30% that was already federally mandated.

Once again, North Carolina has proven to be a national

leader in bycatch reduction; a fact that you will not hear from the NC Wildlife Federation. It’s hard to argue with results like these, which is why it confounds me that the Wildlife Federation would choose to circumvent the FMP process in favor of a process that has yielded nothing over the last six years. If the true goal is to reduce bycatch, rather than to reduce the number of commercial fishermen working North Carolina waters, then the Wildlife Federation should work with and not against the commercial fishing industry. Whether it be through the FMP process or collaborative research, past accomplishments have proven that stakeholder buy-in and industry expertise are the key to reducing bycatch and sustaining North Carolina’s valuable commercial fisheries..

Glenn Skinner, NCFA Executive Director

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he North Carolina Fisheries Association would like to extend thanks to everyone who showed up for and helped out with the Carteret County Fisherman Association’s 2019 Annual Fish Fry fundraiser. We are very grateful to everyone who came out and bought fish plates, bake sale items, t-shirts, necklaces, keychains, and more.

We are also very grateful to all of the sponsors, volunteers, and businesses or individuals who donated food items, baked goods, drinks, raffle items, services, and monetary donations. Your support is everything to us!

From your Editor Thank you to each and every one of you for your support in this new venture!

I hope that you are satisfied with the story qualities that are provided in this publication. My main focus and purpose for taking on this task is to keep our fishermen informed, educate the public and to show that you (whether you are a fisherman or a consumer) are an ESSENTIAL part of our industry!

If there is a question, subject or interest that you may have and would like to see in this magazine, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I will try my best to get the question answered, story written or interest directed to the proper people that will supply that information for you.

With your continued support, we can show that we are using conservative, sustainable practices to keep our industry going for the years to come.

Thank you Again!!!

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We are also very excited to welcome our new members who signed up to join the CCFA as well as the NCFA at the fish fry.

When you join any of our affiliate groups (complete list found on page 34), you instantly become a member of the North Carolina Fisheries Association and will receive our weekly newsletter and bi-monthly Tradewinds publication.

If you’d like to become a member of the North Carolina Fisheries Association exclusively, you can: Go to our website at ncfish.org/join/ and sign up or flip to page 46 in this publication, fill out your “NCFA Membership Application” and send it to us at: North Carolina Fisheries Association PO Box 86 Morehead City, NC 28557 Nikki Raynor

NCFA Legislative Affairs, Jerry Schill

A word from Jerry ...

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NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY UPDATES

y last column dealt with a federal issue, but this one will be totally state related.

We are now in our fourth full month of the North Carolina General Assembly’s “long session”. It’s hard to say how long to it will last, but consider it safe to say, through June.

Several fish bills have been introduced in the Senate and House with some being favored by us and some opposed. So far, we’re doing ok on both fronts but the dust certainly hasn’t settled yet. The two House bills we opposed, H-483 and H-486 both received favorable reports in the House Wildlife Resources Committee, but haven’t had any further action, other than discussion in the House Republican caucus where, we’re told, they didn’t get a thumbs up for moving forward.

Since 483, titled LET THEM SPAWN, didn’t have any monetary component, it should be dead as it did not make the May 9th crossover deadline. That means if a bill does not pass either the House or the Senate by that date, it’s dead for this session, other than for exceptions which this bill did not include. H-486 does have a monetary component so it still remains in the House Finance Committee even though the caucus doesn’t have much of an appetite for it. Things can change quickly though, so we’ll keep an eye on them.

On April 16th Glenn Skinner and I attended the meeting of the House Wildlife Resources Committee where H-483 and H-486 were on the agenda. The first bill considered was 486, COMMERCIAL FISHING LICENSE REFORMS. After a very poor explanation of the current state of our fisheries by Rep. Larry Yarborough, there was little discussion by committee members but one did request to hear of NCFA’s position, so I went to the microphone and explained that the bill was very similar to one that was introduced last year and didn’t go anywhere. What makes this one even worse is that it would double commercial fishermen’s license fees coming shortly after a major hurricane to hit our coast.

Although I begged the committee members not to vote for the bill, it was given a favorable report 6 to 4.

Next, the committee considered 483, LET THEM SPAWN. There was even less discussion on this bill and although a member requested to hear NCFA’s position, we were not given permission to speak. Another committee member requested to hear the position of the Director of Marine Fisheries, as he was in the room. Again, that request was denied! That bill also received a favorable report. In over 30 years of experience, it was the most disgusting display of arrogance in ramming through a bill without proper vetting I’ve seen! And please don’t read partisanship into this. While the leadership is Republican, both parties serve on the committee and both parties saw fit to vote to support the

bill without the benefit of hearing the other side. Worse, the other side was the science behind why this was a bad bill!

On a much more positive note, there were two bills that made it through two Senate committees and passed on the floor. S-554 MARINE FISHERIES REFORMS, and S-648 SUPPORT SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE, both passed the Senate Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee and the Rules Committee unanimously. On the floor, S-554 passed 46 to 1 and S-648 passed 47 to 0! Regarding the Fisheries Reform bill, Senator Norman Sanderson did an excellent job in explaining the history of the Fisheries Reform Act of 1997 and the need for the revisions. The Department of Environmental Quality and Division of Marine Fisheries as well as NCFA are supporting the legislation, which came about after a sit down meeting at DMF that included DEQ and DMF representatives, Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), NC Wildlife Federation, Coastal Federation and NCFA. For NCFA, Brent Fulcher, Glenn Skinner and I were there.

When discussions began, there were parts of the proposal the various groups had issues with, but the difference was that NCFA remained involved in the discussions over the next several weeks and the language was revised to our satisfaction. The others just complained, took their ball and went home.

The bill eliminates the language that allows the spouse of a commercial fisherman to sit on the Marine Fisheries Commission.

I had some heartburn over that at first because I remember the discussions that went into that provision before the FRA was passed over 20 years ago. However, in practice the Commission needs real, practical experience on the water. Also, the two at-large seats would be replaced with two additional individuals from a science perspective.

There’s been too much hanky panky been played with the at-large seats over the years.

Bottom line is that any successful Commission needs balanced appointments, regardless of the categories. NCFA’s position over the years has been that anyone who qualifies to sit on the Commission as recreational or commercial should NOT be appointed to an atlarge seat. Republican and Democrat Governors didn’t see it that way though as it wasn’t statutory language, so it led to abuse on both the sides of the issues.

Finally, while the session so far has been fraught with extreme disappointment, it’s also had the sweet smell of success. The proverbial roller coaster ride, if you will. Allow me to give encouragement to the readers and well-deserved credit to our coastal legislators that have been very engaged on these issues. They have been persistent and consistent and worthy of our thanks and encouragement!

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Brown’s Island 9 OCTOBER 20, 2017 / DAVID CECELSKI

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he Gillikins and Lawrences carrying their surfboat, loaded with the mullet seine, to its resting place above the high tide line on the ocean side of Brown’s Island. Two rows of fishermen lifted the boat holding strong beams across their shoulders fore and aft, secured to the boat by a pair of heavy lines that ran stem to stern.

Another half dozen men held long oars secured to the boat at the thwarts, but could not have been bearing much weight on them.

Bedford Lawrence holds one end of an oar on the far side of the boat, while his grandson, Tildon Lawrence, holds the opposite end of the oar in front of him. Net spreads stand just beyond them, a pooch in front. They seem to be two men short, judging by the unmanned oar. This was a demonstration, presumably done for the photographer Charles Farrell’s benefit.

Norwood Frost, Henry Frost and Norwood’s son Rodney, of Salter Path, N.C., are members of the last two crews of mullet fishermen in North Carolina that still fish fundamentally the same way as the Gillikins and Lawrences did at Brown’s Island in the 1930s. Norwood, still the captain of one of the crews, was 80 years old when I spent a morning with him a couple years ago. His brother was 70.

When they looked at this photograph with me, they described how the fishermen handled the boat and seine in the water. They based their observations on a lifetime of fishing for mullets on Bogue Banks, which is a little east of Brown’s Island, and on what their grandfather, who was also captain of a local mullet crew, told them about mullet fishing in his younger days.

When Henry and Norwood Frost were young, Bogue Banks was home to 10 to 12 mullet camps.

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On a mullet fishing day, the Frosts told me, the fishermen carried their boat down the beach and into the surf for the first haul of the day before sunrise. As they entered the surf, the boat’s crew jumped aboard, while other hands strode into the water as deep as they could go to hold her steady in the breakers.

Standing on the ocean’s edge, another fisherman held fast to a five or six-foot-long post called a “suds staff,” to which was attached one end of the seine.

The suds staff kept that end of the seine fixed on shore, while the boatmen rowed through the surf and the net man, in the rear of the boat, gradually let out the seine in an arc around the school of mullet—“striking mullet,” it was called.

According to the Frosts, the fishermen then rowed ashore and secured the other end of the seine to a second suds staff, so that the seine made something of a half-circle in the ocean, with both ends rooted on the beach.

After dragging the boat ashore, every fisherman in the camp then took hold of one of the two warps, which were also attached by bridles to the suds staffs. They proceeded to haul the seine onto the beach by hand. It was heavy work with a big catch.

For decades, the mullet fishermen at Salter Path have used tractors to haul in their seines.

Now hemmed in by beach house owners, fishing pier operators and sunbathing tourists, many of whom consider them to be infringing on their property rights and leisure time, the Frosts and their crews have not given up mullet fishing on the ocean beaches at Bogue Banks. They still take to the beach every autumn in pursuit of jumpin’ mullet, and it’s a sight to see.

Reprinted with permissions from David Cecelski

- Striking Mullet Courtesy, State Archives of North Carolina

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Salter Path - A Brief History to 1923

Kay Holt Roberts Stephens (Mailboat V3N2 Summer 1992, Reprinted with permissions)

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ogue Banks is one of twenty-three barrier islands along the North Carolina coast. The island, which is approximately twenty-eight miles long, runs east to west along its length and from north to south along its narrow width. To its north lies Bogue Sound and to its south, the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of Carteret County and is partially protected from harsh winds because it lies within the lee of Cape Lookout.

The first permanent settlers began arriving on Bogue Banks in the mid-1800s. They came from Shackleford Banks, Hunting Quarter, Straits, and other “Down east” locations in Carteret County.

There were Guthries, Goulds, Dixons, Smiths, Willises, Adamses, Salters, and Lewises. Rice Path, Bill’s Point, Yellow Hill, Bell Cove, Hopey Ann Hill -- these were the names given to the small villages.

Some settlers, like Elza and Annie Smith, owned their land. Others did not.

The houses were nestled among the trees on the sound side of the island. A few of the homes were built of lumber that had washed ashore in hurricanes. Other houses were built of wood obtained from the mainland. The framing of the homes was made of heart pine to which rough weather boarding was attached. The windows were covered with mosquito netting in warm weather and boarded up in cold weather. Some of the homes had been moved by boat to the banks from other settlements in the county.

The families brought their livestock with them, and the cattle roamed freely on the banks, grazing and drinking water at the various fresh water creeks. The hogs ate the wild grapes, roots and acorns supplemented by com given them by their owners. Each family had its own distinct brand recorded in the courthouse.

The settlers cultivated a variety of vegetables and supplemented their seafood, pork and beef with the meat of the wildlife on the banks. They baked opossum and raccoon and stewed or fried the birds they killed. The birds killed and eaten by the settlers included the flicker (a type of woodpecker which was given the name yellow hammer), the fish hawk or osprey, the cedar waxwing, the robin, the loon, and various ducks.

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The settlers, who had been isolated from the rest of North Carolina by the rivers and sounds, had retained an accent reminiscent of their English ancestors. The faces of the older settlers were tanned and leathered by countless hours of exposure to wind, sun and salt spray. Most of the families were related by blood or marriage, and they readily shared food and possessions with one another.

During the Civil War, these individuals reacted differently from those living in other parts of the south. They had nothing in common with the slave owners, and their isolation kept them apart from the usual grievances that the secessionists felt. With Fort Macon located at the extreme east end of Bogue Banks, the settlers were in contact with soldiers escaping from imprisonment and with a number of very unruly characters. This resulted in several encounters which the villages long remembered.

In late summer, when the mullet ran in big black schools out in the ocean, some of the settlers from the small villages on Bogue Banks would come to the beach near Salter’s home. They would encircle the mullet with the long nets which had been knit so patiently by their women. Hundreds of pounds of mullet would be brought to shore. All day long, the women would split and gut the fish. The fish were placed in big baskets and taken to the ocean to be washed.

The mullets were then salted down in wooden barrels and left on the beach until the boat from Hyde County would come loaded with sweet potatoes and corn. The salt mullets were traded for com and sweet potatoes and staples.

The men got the barrels of salted fish from the sea to the sound by typing a rope around the barrel. Two men would get a long pole and put it through the rope and place the pole on their shoulders.

They would carry the barrel down a path that led from the ocean to the sound. They then put the barrel of fish in their skiff and took it out to the boat from Hyde County which was anchored in deep water.

Over the years, a permanent path was worn from the beach to the sound. The settlers called the path “Salter’s path” because it ran by Riley Salter’s home. A portion of this path can still be seen today.

In March of 1896, the first permanent settlers moved to Salter

Hunting Quarter, Straits, and other "Down east" locations in Carteret County. There were Guthries, Goulds, Dixons, Smiths, Willises, Adamses, Salters, and Lewises. Rice Path, Bill's Point, Yellow Hill, Bell Cove, Hopey Ann Hill -- these were the names given to the small villages. Some settlers, like Elza and Annie Smith, owned their land. Others did not.

The houses were nestled among the trees on the sound side of the island. A few of the homes were built of lumber that had washed ashore in hurricanes. Other houses were built of wood obtained from the mainland. The framing of the homes was made of heart pine to which rough weather boarding was attached. The windows were covered with mosquito netting in warm weather and boarded up in cold weather. Some of the homes had been moved by boat to the banks from other settlements in the county.

trees. Due to the thickness of the vegetation, one could only catch a glimpse of light here and there put off by kerosene lamps in those few houses perched upon the sand hills. The people continued to raise live­stock and gardens and to fish and hunt.

By the early 1900s, well-worn paths were established through the woods from one house to another. In addition to the Salter path on the eastern end of the village, other paths were worn from individual houses to the sound and ocean. These paths were often named.

The village was isolated from the rest of Carteret County since there were no roads leading from the settlement and there was no bridge connecting Bogue Banks with the mainland.

In the early 1920s, Mr. J.E. Woodland built a fish camp on a beach hill beside the Salter path. A tram­way was built upon which the fish could be conveyed from the beach to the sound.

Ownership of the village land passed from Alonza Thomas to John Royal and then to Alice Green Hoffman. In 1923, Mrs. Hoffman took the head of each family to court when a number of the squatter’s cows wandered onto her fenced-in estate and destroyed one of her gardens. The result of the court case came to be known as the 1923 Judgment. The judgment, stated that the land was owned by Alice Hoffman, but that the squatters and their descendants could occupy the village land as long as they did not trespass outside its eastern boundary, did not allows their cattle to roam east of the village, did not build outside the boundaries designated as the village or on the ocean side of that property included in the village, and did not cut live trees. Mrs. Hoffman’s land extended one mile west of the village. The villagers were allowed to gather dead wood, to run their livestock, and to fish on the beach west of the village. Provided these conditions were observed, the persons named in the suit and the descendants could remain on the land.

The families brought their livestock with them, and the cattle roamed freely on the banks, grazing and drinking water at the various fresh water creeks. The hogs ate the wild grapes, roots and acorns supplemented by com given them by their owners. Each family had its own distinct brand recorded in the courthouse.

The settlers cultivated a variety of vegetables and supplemented their seafood, pork and beef with the meat of the wildlife on the banks.

They baked opossum and raccoon and stewed or fried the birds they killed. The birds killed and eaten by the settlers included the flicker (a type of woodpecker which was given the name yellow hammer), the fish hawk or osprey, the cedar waxwing, the robin, the loon, and various ducks.

The settlers, who had been isolated from the rest of North Carolina by the rivers and sounds, had retained an accent reminiscent of their English ancestors. The faces of the older settlers were tanned and leathered by countless hours of exposure to wind, sun and salt spray.

Most of the families were related by blood or marriage, and they readily shared food and possessions with one another.

During the Civil War, these individuals reacted differently from those living in other parts of the south. They had nothing in common with the slave owners, and their isolation kept them apart from the usual grievances that the secessionists felt. With Fort Macon located at the extreme east end of Bogue Banks, the

Path. By then, Riley Salter had moved. The families decided to move because the area between Rice Path and Yellow Hill was being overrun by blowing sand and an excessive amount of salt spray.

The first four families to move to Salter Path were those of Rumley Willis, Henry Willis, Alonza Guthrie, and Damon Guthrie. They cleared land that was located near the path named for Riley Salter.

They took their houses down, brought them by sail skiff to their chosen spot, and reassembled them. Alonza Thomas of Beaufort, one of the owners of the land, gave them permission to settle there.

They were to supply him with cedar posts for which they would be paid.

It wasn’t long before most of the families on the western end of Bogue Banks had moved. Some moved to the new settlement of Salter Path, while others went to the mainland settlements of Bogue, Wildwood, Ocean, Broad Creek, and Morehead City. The western end of Bogue Banks did not begin to be populated again, and then only sparsely, until 1955 when four miles of road running west from Salter Path was added to the state system as a paved road.

The Bankers used different types of boats over the years to fit their fishing and traveling needs. The first boats built and used by the settlers on Bogue Banks were the kunners. These boats consisted of two half shells hewn from logs joined to a centerline deadwood structure. The kunner could be sailed or rowed. These boats were common throughout the 19th century, but their use began to decline late in the century due to the dif­ficulty of obtaining large logs for their construction and the need for larger, more maneuverable, boats.

The boats that replaced the kunner were plank built. By then the Bankers had the tools and skills needed to build a variety of boats.

The two major types of boats were the flat-bottom and the vee-bottom. The small flat-bottomed boats used by the settlers were called skiffs. They, too, could be sailed or rowed.

By the turn of the century, the village of Salter Path, which had been settled by additional families, was distributed over eighty and three-fourths acres of land. The houses, scattered here and there, were partially hidden among the close-growing oak and yaupon

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he bigger the storm and stronger the winds, the more distance you must place between the boat and the anchor.

There will also be greater tension on the anchor line as well as an increased angle of the anchor line relative to the sea floor.

If the winds are calm and it’s a slick cam on the water, then the distance between boat and anchor will be the least, tension on the anchor line at a minimum, and the degree of angle of the anchor line is at its lowest.

Sometimes, when the conditions are just right, the boat will hold in place without the aid of the anchor. If the wind is coming out of one direction and the current out of the opposite direction, the force of both will cancel each other out and the boat won’t move. You can look overboard and see your anchor line all slack with no tension, suspended in the water column.

Now, why am I telling you all of this?

Jesus is our anchor. The anchor line is our faith. We are the boat. When things are going well, it doesn’t take much faith to be close to Jesus. The opposing forces of life, the trials and tribulations seem to be cancelling each other out. You don’t think you really need Jesus in your life. Besides, He’s close by anyway. We don’t have anything to worry about, right?

But then the storm comes. A storm will always come. Now you’re battling strong wind and tides, the natural and supernatural forces of life. The situation you’re in is fierce. The storm pushes you further and further away from the anchor of Jesus.

You begin to wonder why Jesus was so close by during the good times but is so far away during the really bad times. You keep getting pushed out into the abyss of the storm, waves building, rain pelting and then suddenly, you notice that you’re not going anywhere. The anchor has held. There’s enough line out that allows the boat to ride up and down the waves and to withstand the horizontal motion created by the impact of the waves broadsiding the boat. It’s blowing a gale, but the anchor and anchor line have held.

It’s easy to lose sight of the necessity of Jesus when everything is going right. When there is no tension on the anchor line of faith, when your faith is not being tested or tugged on, it’s easy to take Jesus for granted. We can assume that we can get along just fine on our own without Jesus, especially when life’s wind and current are just right. We begin to believe that we are the master of our vessel. We began to believe that Jesus is only needed for the really big storms in life, or for the lesser captains.

Here’s something to really think about. The anchor is most effective the further away you are from it. But the further away from the anchor, the stronger the anchor line must be. If the anchor line was weak and of little strength, it would never be able to withstand the test of the storm.

Jesus is our anchor. He is perfect, always true, always right, immutable, and never will change. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) So, if the problem can never be the anchor, then the problem must be with the anchor line, our faith.

“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:17).

Little or no faith and belief in Jesus will produce little or no results.

“And he (Jesus) did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” (Matthew 13:58).

Regardless of the conditions, have faith in Christ. Bad seas or slick cam, have faith in Christ. Jesus is always there for you.

Sometimes He lets a storm carry us out a bit so we’ll feel the tension on the line. That’s just a friendly reminder that Jesus Christ is always there for you.

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N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission: The state policy-making board The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission is a nine-member board, appointed by the governor, which implements laws relating to coastal fisheries and coastal fishing and adopts rules and policies to be followed in the management, protection, preservation and enhancement of marine and estuarine resources within its jurisdiction. The commission meets at least quarterly and may hold additional meetings at the call of the chair.

Function and Purpose

The function, purpose and duties of the commission are set out in statue. G.S. 143B 289.51 directs the commission to: • Manage, restore, develop, cultivate, conserve, protect, and regulate the marine and estuarine resources; • Implement state laws relating to coastal fisheries by the adoption of rules and policies; • Implement management measures regarding ocean and marine fisheries; and • Advise the state regarding marine fisheries within the jurisdiction of regional and federal boards and councils.

Powers and Duties

The powers and duties of the commission are also found in statute. G.S. 143B 289.52 authorizes the commission to adopt rules to be followed in the management, protection, preservation and enhancement of the marine and estuarine resources within its jurisdiction, including commercial and sports fisheries. To view or download the commission’s rules, visit http://portal.ncdenr.org/ web/mf/rules-and-regulations.

Some, but not all, of the other powers and duties of the commission include: • Authorize, license, regulate, prohibit, prescribe, or restrict all forms of marine and estuarine resources in coastal waters, with respect to: o Time, place, character, or dimensions of any methods or equipment that may be employed in taking fish. o Seasons for taking fish. o Size limits of and maximum quantities of fish that may be taken.

• Provide fair regulation of commercial and recreational fishing groups in the interest of the public.

• Govern mariculture of shellfish and other marine resources involving the use of public grounds.

• Close waters to shellfishing for propagation.

• Adopt relevant federal laws and regulations as state rules.

• Delegate to the fisheries director the authority by proclamation to suspend or implement a particular rule that may be affected by a variable condition.

• Comment on permit applications received by state agencies that affect marine resources.

• Adopt fishery management plans.

• Approve the Coastal Habitat Protection Plan.

• Approve rules to define recreational and commercial fishing gear.

• Regulate participation in a fishery that is subject to a federal fishery management plan, if that plan has a quota.

• Establish advisory committees (G.S. 143B 289.57).

• Adopt rules establishing sanitation requirements for the harvesting, processing and handling of scallops, shellfish and crustacean of instate origin (G.S.113-221.2).

• Regulate scallops, shellfish and crustacean shipped into North Carolina. (G.S.113-221.2).

• Adopt rules to provide for a water quality monitoring program for

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coastal recreation waters of the state and implement the federal Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000. (G.S.113-221.2).

Commission Make-up

The commission seats are set out in GS 143B-289.54(a) and specify the commission be comprised of: • Three commercial fishermen o One must be a licensed dealer, processor or distributor • Three recreational fishermen o One must be involved with the sports fishing industry • Two at-large seats • One fisheries scientist Visit http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/north-carolina-marine-fisheries-commission to view the current commission.

Jurisdiction

The Marine Fisheries Commission’s jurisdiction includes all coastal waters out to 3 miles from shore, including 2.5 million acres of marine and estuarine waters and 4,000 miles of shoreline. This contains the shoreline of estuarine rivers and sounds, as well as the ocean.

North Carolina’s location along the Atlantic Coast presents unique management opportunities. Just offshore of Cape Hatteras, the warm waters of the Gulf Stream collide with the colder waters of the Labrador Current. This creates a mixing zone that produces a diversity of catch. The state is the southern-most migratory range of many northern species of fish, like tautog and summer flounder, and the northern-most range of many tropical species, like gag grouper and tarpon. Additionally, the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound system is the second-largest estuary on the East Coast, behind the Chesapeake Bay. N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries 3441 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC 28557 252-726-7021 or 800-682-2632

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Join Us … August 17, Diamond City Homecoming “At the End of the Road,” Harkers Island Diamond City, that collection of hamlets along Shackleford Banks, was home to more than five hundred fishermen, whalers, boatbuilders and their families at the end of the 19th Century.

There, literally at the water’s edge, was nearly everything necessary to sustain their humble manner of living. Almost of necessity, that shoreline became the focal point of their lives. Within the expanse of just a few hundred feet was found what was at once their homes and their gardens, their schools and their workshops, their theaters and their playgrounds.

-Joel Hancock, Sr., “Strengthened by the Storm”

Join us as we “go home to a place we’ve never lived” A day to bring together the families of Shackleford Banks who migrated to Salter Path, Promise Land and Harkers Island ~ Down East to celebrate the120th Anniversary of the Storm of ‘1899 that drove their Shackleford Banks ancestors to higher ground.

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rom October 1891 until October 1898, eighteen recorded storms ravaged these sand banks. People grew weary and began to talk of moving to higher ground away from the only home they had ever known.

On August 17, 1899, the San Ciriaco hurricane, crossed the coast of North Carolina, leaving behind an unrecoverable path of destruction, wells filled with saltwater and sand, blistered trees and a barren landscape.

And thus, the migration began in earnest for Diamond City’s families as they began to move inland … taking down their homes and boarding them across skiffs loaded with all their belongings in search of a new place to carry on their way of life.

Families moved to Morehead City’s Promise Land and to Bogue Banks’ Salter Path, but most would move just across the sound to Harkers Island.

Now, generations later, descendants of those Diamond City families hold onto their ancestral ties to these barren shores with a sacred allegiance to their home place, returning often, to renew their ties to this place and one another.

Diamond City Homecoming, celebrated every five years, brings together families who share these common ties, remembering loved ones they never knew, coming home to a place they’ve never lived before …

Homecoming Plans include:

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Friday Evening, Aug 16 • Harkers Island Community Choir “Celebrating our Island Heritage” Free Grace Wesleyan Church, Ferry Dock Road, Harkers Island Saturday • 10 am ~ Memorial Service at Wade’s Shore Cemetery • All Day ~ Family displays from Salter Path, Promise Land and Harkers Island (CSWM&HC) • 11-2 ~ Lunch • 2 pm ~ Afternoon Program – Memories, Music and Fellowship (CSWM&HC)

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In 1957, Nelson Gillikin joined the company, becoming a partner in the early 1960’s. The business was incorporated in 1963 and the company name was changed to Barbour’s Marine Supply Co. Inc. With Nelson, the company began wholesale sales while retaining the retail store and machine shop service. The company traveled and delivered hardware through the southeast coast of North Carolina. They primarily sold to commercial fishing, boat-building, and sportfishing customers, but also sold to farmers and other industrially concerned customers.

In 1969 Jackie Booth joined the company, becoming a .

Brother’s Marine Shop circaSt. 1920’s Barbour Brother’sBarbour Marine Shop circa 1920's (218 Front Beaufort, NC) partner in the early 1970’s. With Jackie, the wholesale busi(218 Front St. Beaufort, NC) The year was 1919. Worldness War I greatly expanded to sell hardware and offer service to had just ended. Woodrow Wilson was ater in 1922. Thehe same year, brothers bought adjoining lotofatthe216 Front the year wasthe1919.

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Woodrow President United States. There wereentire North Carolina coast. The company eventually exnew metal building fifty-feet by fifty-feet and reopened for business six months no radio stations or television.

It was still ten their sales territories to cover from Virginia to Florida. panded Wilson was President of the United States. There were years before the Great Depression. The year ness throughoutno theradio 1920’s and 1930’s.

Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s came tremendous growth stations or television. It was 1919 still was tenayears before long time ago. with customer base, product lines carried, and territory covthe Great Depression. The year 1919 was a long time ago.

Coinciding with these events in ered. Through all these years, the retail store and machine Coinciding with these events in 1919, John Owen Barbour 1919, John Owen Barbour Sr. and his brother Edwin Barbour left the sawmill business in service also remained a viable part of the company. shop Sr. and his brother Edwin Barbour left the sawmill business Swansboro, NC behind. They moved to In 1979, Nelson Gillikin’s son Bryan Gillikin joined the comin Swansboro, NC behind. They moved to Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, NC and together opened Barbour pany, becoming a partner in the late 1980’s after the retiretogether opened Barbour Brothers Machine Shop.

The original machine shopment was of J.O. Barbour Jr. This created a third managing partner Brothers Machine Shop. located at 218 Front Street, on the Beaufort which the company had maintained after moving into wholeThe original machine shop was located waterfront, at 218 Front to offerStreet, access by boats for repairs.

Barbour Brother’s Marine Shop circa 1920's (218 Front St. Beaufort, NC) travel from in sale sales and expanding the sales area across several states. on the Beaufort waterfront, to offer access Most by boats forneighboring repairs. communities years was done by boat. The original With a government backed urban renewal project initiatMost travel from neighboring communitiesthose in those years was machine shop burned completely three years later in 1922. The same year, the brothers bought the adjoining lot at 216 Front done by boat. The original machine shopStreet, burned stayingcompletely on the waterfront. They built a new metal building fifty-feet by fifty-feet and reopened for business six months Barbour’s Marine Supply Co. circa 1950’s continued in the machine shop business throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s. three years later in 1922. The same year, later. the They brothers bought (216 Front St. Beaufort, NC) Johnwaterfront.

Owen Barbour the adjoining lot at 216 Front Street, staying on the joined his father in They built a new metal building fifty-feet Jr. by“J.O.” fifty-feet and rethe family business and opened for business six months later. They continued in mid the became a partner in the 1940’s after returning home machine shop business throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Worldin War II. With J.O, John Owen Barbour Jr. “J.O.” joined hisfrom father the family began retail sales of business and became a partner in the midthey 1940’s after returnhardware while still operating ing home the machine shop service. thesales 1940’s theyhardBarbour's Marine SupplyWar Co. circa 1950's St.During Beaufort, NC)of from World II. With J.O, (216 they Front began retail expanded their existing ware while still operating the machine shopbuilding service.

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In 1957, Nelson Gillikin joined the Barbour's Marine Supply Co. circa 1950's (216 Front St. Beaufort, NC) company, becoming a partner in the early 1960’s. The business was incorporated in 1963 and the company name was changed to Barbour’s Marine Supply Co. Inc. With

Celebrates 100 years of Service ed to redesign the Beaufort waterfront in the mid 1970’s, we could see the change coming for the relocation of commercial and industrial businesses along the waterfront. The company enlarged the existing warehouse location at 410 Hedrick Street, consolidating the retail store and machine shop with the warehouse. Our business no longer needed water access and eventually we closed the Front Street location and sold the property to tourist and retail concerns. This was a better situation for the waterfront of Beaufort and provided one location for us to operate the entire business with more space. It was a much more efficient operation for us and good for the growth of the company.

For the last fifty years of operation, the company has essentially continued to offer the same services to the marine industry. We still operate a retail store, offer machine shop services, and continue wholesale sales. We are open for business six days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. We offer weekly deliveries to all of coastal North Carolina daily UPS and commercial freight deliveries everywhere, and still cover the coast from Virginia to Florida.

We cater to commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, boat builders, boat yards, and even DIY (do it yourself) individuals.

We offer a complete line of marine hardware from manufacturing companies across the US from California to Maine, even Canada and Mexico. We sell everything from oarlocks for a rowboat to equipment for US Navy aircraft carriers. We always stress that if we do not have it, we can get it for you.

Jackie Booth, Bryan Gillikin, and Deborah Booth are the present owners of Barbour’s Marine Supply. Jackie has been with the company fifty years and Bryan has been with the company forty years. But do not be fooled, Deborah is the “real boss”, even more so having worked in the office through high school and college years, completing a thirty-year teaching career and returning to the business fifteen years ago. Deborah has been around the marine hardware business all her life.

She knows the business and stays involved.

The marine hardware business surely has changed in the last one-hundred years, especially the last fifty years that the present owners have been involved. With all of the advances in operations and technology, it is certainly a different world

we live in today.

Barbour’s Marine Supply has been in continuous operation for one-hundred years. Through the depression years, war years, though economic ups and downs, and incoming competition from many larger corporations, we have triumphed.

This was done with dedication, hard work, and good service to our customers. We began as a small family business one-hundred years ago. Four generations later, we remain a successful small family business. We consider that a milestone.

Bryan, Jackie, and Deborah want to thank all past and present customers, suppliers, and employees for their loyal support over the last one-hundred years. We would not be here as a small business without that support. We look forward to the future of continued success in contributing to our community and meeting the needs of the entire marine industry.

We close with two thoughts. Our motto is “We may not be the largest, but believe we offer the best”. Our logo still reads “Barbour’s Marine Supply – Everything for Boats – Since 1919”.

-Thank you Jackie Booth Bryan Gillikin Deborah Booth Barbour’s Marine Supply Co Inc 410 Hedrick St. Beaufort, NC

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Talk on the Dock MEET NCFA’S AUNDREA O’NEAL

DEFENDER OF FISH AND FOWL “There’s this crazy nut I know,” commercial fisherman Lauren Rimmer said. “Her name is Aundrea - that’s where I go to find out what’s going on in fish politics.” Joking aside, Rimmer sees Beaufort native Aundrea O’Neal as a trusted source of information.

“I’ve learned a lot through Aundrea,” Rimmer continued.

“When she says, ‘Girl, let me tell you,’ I listen and want to be involved!”

You may not have met Aundrea O’Neal in person, but you are familiar with her work if you are reading Tradewinds magazine. As editor of the North Carolina Fisheries Association’s publication since 2016, O’Neal has improved the Tradewinds’ look, feel, and relevancy to the fishing industry.

“NCFA’s been picking up members from Alaska, Texas, Louisiana, and the northern states,” O’Neal said. “I think it’s because of the Tradewinds – we now mail more copies than we drop off at local venues.” She figures that other states appreciate the fighting spirit of Tarheel fishermen.

“North Carolina has worked hard to keep the CCA (Coastal Conservation Association) at bay, and the northern states like to read about what we’re doing because they know they’re next!”

O’Neal is also office manager for the NC Fisheries Association, and serves as a board member and treasurer of the Carteret County Fishermen’s Association. She is also a former board member of Carteret Catch.

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al Legislative dinner co-sponsored by North Carolina Fisheries Association and North Carolina Watermen United, or slinging plates of fresh bluefish at the Carteret County Fishermen’s Association’s annual fish fry fundraiser.

As much as O’Neal is involved in fisheries, you might find it surprising that she only got on board six or seven years ago.

“I knew nothing about fisheries when I started,” she explained, although she did grow up in Beaufort and practically lived at Lauren Rimmer’s grandfather’s fish house on Town Creek.

“We called it Carl Cannon’s fish house. My mama used to go there and head shrimp. Many a night I slept on the bench while she worked.”

O’Neal moved away from the county for twelve years. When she returned, she noticed fewer commercial fishing boats.

The industry had shrunk. Her son-in-law, Hunter Barta, started commercial fishing and that’s when Aundrea got an earful about fish politics. She decided to get involved.

“Pam Morris really inspired me. We went to our first Carteret County Fishermen’s Association meeting and I heard her speak. I thought to myself, ‘I wish I knew as much as she does!’”

Before Aundrea O’Neal took the plunge into the world of fisheries, she worked at a local marina. She came to view some of her co-workers as hostile because they were “talking smack about commercial fishermen.”

“I finally told them, ‘I’ve heard all of this I’m going to hear. If you say one more word I’m coming across this counter.’ That was my last day there.”

The day O’Neal quit the marina, she dropped in at Beaufort Inlet Seafood and Brent Fulcher hired her on the spot. For the next couple of years, she and her chicken named Stink Stink held court in the fish house office. O’Neal answered phone calls and payed fishermen, packers, and shrimp headers. I

guess you could say that Stink Stink was the fish house mascot.

Yes, that’s right – Stink Stink the chicken was always by Aundrea O’Neal’s side, until her feathered friend passed away this past April while at home.

“My Stinkerpot was hatched with a crippled leg,” O’Neal explained.

“She got where she couldn’t walk at all, so I took her everywhere.”

Stink Stink is likely the only chicken in history that has ever stayed at the Hilton.

“This past January, I was going to the NCFA board meeting in Nags Head where we had reservations at the Hilton Garden Inn. When I went to check in, I told them at the front desk that I had a crippled chicken and if she couldn’t stay, I was going back to Beaufort. The young lady at the front desk checked with the manager, returned and said, “If there’s anything we can do to accommodate you or your chicken, just let us know.”

That was just one instance of Stink Stink’s many travels.

(Beaufort Composite Technologies www.composites.com) is making a beak out of carbon fiber, which Dr. Romano will attach with screws, brackets, and a special glue.

“Donut is becoming a community duck,” O’Neal quipped.

“A bionic community duck.”

The group effort to save Donut the duck is dwarfed by what’s required to keep the North Carolina seafood industry afloat.

O’Neal insists that a broad network of supporters and contacts are required, and she tells fishermen that they had better make an effort to reach out.

“Get to know your representatives,” she emphasized. “Get involved, stay active, and communicate with your board members – whether it’s the NC Fisheries Association, NC Watermen United -- whatever group you belong to.”

O’Neal is concerned that the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission remains imbalanced in favor of special interests, and she stays aggravated that some people prioritize fun (sport fishing) over some people making their living on the water.

But she urges fishermen not to lose heart or give up.

“When I hear fishermen say, ‘My voice doesn’t count,’ I say that’s not true! Every voice does matter, but you have to show up to the meetings to get your voice heard.”

The NC Fisheries Association has built a good relationship with the Governor, legislators, and staff. It’s so important to keep the lines of communication open.”

Aundrea O’Neal’s passion toward the commercial fishing industry is clear, and she does not regret jumping into the fray with both feet.

“I can go anywhere and get an office job,” she said. “But this is what I love. Fishermen are the underdog; I have and will always fight for the underdog.”

Barbara Garrity-Blake www.raisingthestory.com Living at the Water’s Edge (UNC Press) P.O. Box 91 Gloucester, NC 28528 (252) 342-8028

We’ve Moved to higher ground!

O’Neal’s compassion for fowl does not stop with chickens.

She and her boyfriend have a duck named Donut whose beak was bitten off by a dog. Beaufort veterinarian Jocelyn Romano at Beaufort Veterinary Hospital made a mold and had a prosthetic beak made from acrylic. She attached the new beak with screws, but Donut dug in the mud and broke it. Then the vet tried brackets, which lasted a little longer but met the same fate. Currently Phil Herting, who specializes in carbon fiber

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A WORD FROM: BLUE WATER FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATION PO Box 51828, Boston, MA. 02210

I write to you as I sit and prepare to attend next week’s HMSAP Meeting (May21st-23rd) in Silver Spring Md. BWFA has invested an incredible amount of time helping to formulate this HMSAP’ Agenda.

During this past winter’s Government Shutdown. BWFA seized the opportunity to create its BWFA Reform Document. Over a six-week period, BWFA outlined specific needs of our HMS PLL Industry in order to stop the continuing contraction of our Highly Migratory Species Pelagic Long Line Fishery.

We also attached to our Reform Document a Revitalization Plan in order to help create flexibility within our HMS PLL Bluefin Tuna IBQ System. If implemented this plan will help Vessels forced into In-Activity to re-enter the Fishery. It will also help active vessels who are in need of increasing their individual fishing efforts to remain profitable, by outlining a mechanism to disperse BFT-IBQ to individual vessels.

With these two documents BWFA has given NMFS a blueprint to help first stabilize and eventually revitalize our contracting HMS PLL Fishery. BWFA presented these two documents to the NOAA Government Officials who were gracious enough to put time aside from their busy schedules and attend our BWFA Annual Meeting in Alexandria VA,

(April 3rd, 4th and 5th).

US ICCAT Commissioner Drew Lawler, NMFS Office of Sustainable Fisheries Alan Risenhoover, Acting Chief Division of Highly Migratory Species Peter Cooper, and from NOAA’ Office of International Affairs & Seafood Inspection, Celeste Leroux.

We also received conference call update on Protected Species from Erin Fougeres NMFS SERO Protected Resources Division. Along with PLL Tagging Research Opportunities Presented by Dr Walt Golet Research Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, The University of Maine/Gulf of Marine Research Institute.

It appears our Efforts were well received. Much of what we presented will be addressed during this important HMSAP Meeting. There will be much work ahead. I want to thank BWFA’ Regulatory Team. Great effort by everyone.

Sincerely, BWFA-President Marty Scanlon

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SIGNAL FLARES: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Do you know how to use your boat’s distress signal flares to summon help in the case of an emergency? If you have never practiced with signal flares, you may use them improperly.

Familiarity with the operation of safety and survival gear is fundamental to your preparation for emergencies. In this article, we have adapted the flares training protocol we use in AMSEA marine safety classes for use in an emergency procedures drill on a commercial fishing boat.

Really, I Can Do That?

At AMSEA, we practice with signal flares several times each year in our Marine Safety Instructor Training classes. You can practice with signal flares too, but you need to take precautions to ensure the safety of your boat and crew during the drill. You must also take adequate measures to ensure that your drill does not result in an unnecessary search for a vessel in distress.

Location

Your boat is an ideal platform for practicing with signal flares.

Just do it well away from other boats and far enough from shore to be sure that aerial flares will not drift onto flammable structures or vegetation downwind from your location. Be at least one-half mile from shore. Also, make sure you are well away from any airports and aviation flight paths.

Safety Gear

Pyrotechnic flares can drip hot slag and ash when burning.

For this reason, everyone practicing with flares needs to wear personal protective equipment (PPE). Your PPE should include leather gloves and eye protection, like safety glasses, safety goggles, or a face shield. It’s best to wear a long sleeve shirt, long pants, and fully enclosed shoes when practicing with flares.

Beyond PPE, you should have at hand, a first aid kit containing materials for treating burns. If you are practicing with aerial flares, you will need a steel container in which to place any duds. A military surplus ammunition box that fits your longest aerial flare is a good choice. In addition, have your boat’s fire extinguishers at hand.

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Communications

You will be practicing with devices that are intended to signal for help in case of emergency. So, you need to let others know that you are practicing and not actually in trouble. Make a phone call to the U.S. Coast Guard and let them know when and where you will be conducting your drill. Then contact your local first responders (police, fire department, search and rescue team,), local harbormaster, and the FAA and give them the same information. If you can think of anyone else in the vicinity that might be expected to respond to a distress signal, let them know. Five minutes before you start your drill, make a Sécurité announcement on VHF channel 16: “Sécurité, sécurité, sécurité. This is the fishing vessel <boat name>. We will conduct a drill with signal flares at <time> and <your position>. This is only a drill.”

You can give your position in relation to a charted geographic point or as latitude and longitude, whichever will be best understood by anyone nearby. Immediately before starting your drill, again make a Sécurité announcement on VHF channel 16: “Sécurité, sécurité, sécurité. This is the fishing vessel <boat name>. We are commencing a drill with signal flares at <your position>. This is only a drill.”

Stand by on VHF channel 16 and be prepared to respond to any calls concerning your signals. Others may see your signals and they may not have heard your Sécurité announcement.

Safe Usage of Pyrotechnic Signals

Before lighting or launching any pyrotechnic signal, be sure to read the manufacturer’s instructions and any safety warnings.

Be sure you understand the instructions completely. Before allowing a crew member to practice with a device, make sure that they have read and understood the manufacturer’s instructions.

Then, make sure that they follow those directions. With that in mind, here are some general guidelines for safely practicing with signal flares.

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Have individual crew members practice one at a time.

Keep control of the drill.

When igniting handheld flares and smoke signals, hold them away from your body and out over the water to prevent hot slag from dripping onto the deck.

Make sure that the wind is at your back so that smoke, flames, and dripping slag do not blow back onto you or the boat.

Some smoke signals are designed to float in the water and the canister will get very hot after ignition. Set these devices into the water after igniting.

Treat aerial meteor flares and parachute flares like a loaded gun. Never point an aerial flare at yourself or another person.

Do not launch aerial flares in the direction of aircraft, other boats, or your vessel’s rigging.

Point the launcher into the sky at a 60° to 85° angle.

Do not launch an aerial flare straight up.

Observe the direction of the wind. Do not launch a flare in a direction where it can drift down onto your boat or another vessel.

Keep a firm grip on the launcher. The strong recoil of some aerial flares could cause you to lose control of the launcher, resulting in serious injury to yourself or others.

If an aerial flare misfires, DO NOT LOOK DOWN THE BORE OF THE LAUNCHER! If it doesn’t launch after a

few seconds, place it in the steel duds container.

Keep any duds outside and on deck until they can be disposed of safely.

At the conclusion of your drill, make a Sécurité announcement that your drill has concluded: •

“Sécurité, sécurité, sécurité. This is the fishing vessel <boat name>. We have concluded our drill with signal flares at <your position>.”

Clean up any debris, such as the cool remains of handheld flares and smoke signals, and dispose of them with your boat’s trash when you get to shore. If you have any dud signals, contact your municipality’s waste management department for advice on safe disposal. If you are operating a commercial fishing vessel, be sure to log your drill to demonstrate your compliance efforts, meeting the monthly drill requirements of 46 CFR 28.270.

Outdated Flares

Often, we are asked how to dispose of outdated signal flares.

Once your flares are outdated, our advice is to contact your municipality’s waste management department to learn about your options for disposing of hazardous materials. But your best option may be to not let them become expired in the first place, by conducting a flares drill. You can use your soon-to-expire flares to practice the skills you will need to safely signal for help in an actual emergency.

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Get involved Become a member in your community CONTACT : North Carolina For-Hire Captain’s Association President: Ryan Williams 910-263-3097 Albemarle Fisherman’s Association Terry Pratt 252-339-7431 Pamlico County Fisherman’s Association Wayne Dunbar Hwd0123@gmail.com 252-670-7467 Oz Hudgins Home: 252-745-7424 Mobile: 252-571-2002 Carteret County Fisherman’s Association Bradley Styron qualityseafood@clis.com Office: 252-225-0073 Mobile: 252-342-8821 Brunswick County Fishermen’s Association Randy Robinson fishmancsx@gmail.com 910-209-3463 Ocracoke Working Waterman’s Association Hardy Plyler hplyler@gmail.com 252-588-0512

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AROUND THE COAST Affiliate News Albemarle Fisherman’s Association Earl Ward Jr.~ “We have gone from catfishing to setting Albemarle Fisherman’s Association

crab pots.

It seems to be going kind of slow, it’spots our Terry Pratt~ “The guys have been getting theirbut crab turn. We had 3 good years, so it’s comes in cycles.” up, fishing has been real slow, but the water has finally cleared up from all of theFisherman’s hurricane runoff.”

Brunswick County Association

Randy Robinson~ “Half of our shrimpers have gone

Brunswick Countyand Fisherman’s Association down to SC shrimping the other half are here getting Randy Robinson~ “Speckled troutSome and red their boats ready to shrimp locally. aredrum catching a fifew shing hasshrimp be fabulous, shrimping been large here, the Charter has boats are moderate, catching Cothe are catching big NC green and the crabbers bia, guys and King’s.

Offshore, they are tails catching grouper and are still pulling in crabs. Lockwood Folly has releasing an abundance of American RedRiver Snapper.” shoaled up and we’re hoping to get some assistance from our legislators to getFisherman’s it opened back Association up.”

Carteret County Bradley Styron~ “Once again, we feel like we had a very successful County fish fry this year. We would like to thank everyCarteret Fisherman’s Association one for their support, whether they were a sponsor, donor, Bradley Styron~ “Flounder pound netting is winding patron or volunteer. It took you all to make it happen. Our down, it hasn’t been a good season for us. It’s been main concern now is watching how this Southern Flounder a very slow season, shrimping is off and some of our Amendment 2 to the Fisheries Management Plan will afshrimper’s have actually gone back to crabbing or to fect our businesses.” whatever else they can do to try to make a living. Things haven’t been good for fishermen since Hurricane Pamlico County Fisherman’s Association Florence.”

Wayne Dunbar~ “Not available at time of print.”

Pamlico County Fisherman’s Association Ocracoke Working Waterman’s Association Ocracoke Fish House~ Hardy Plyler Wayne Dunbar~ “Not available at time of print..”

“Our retail market and Ocracoke Seafood Co. (Fish House) have been very busy during the Memorial Day holiday.

Ocracoke Working Gillnetting for Mackerel Waterman’s and blues haveAssociation been good off the beach, in the ocean and sounds.

Everybody’s been busy Ocracoke Fish House~ Hardy Plyler setting pound nets.”

“We’ve Summer had a good flounder pound net season, even though it got a late start. The retail market has had a good season all fall.

We areCaptain’s looking forward to our North Carolina For-Hire Association AnnualWilliams~ Oyster RoastKing on December 29, from Ryan Mackerel have been2pm-until. biting in the We’d like to welcome everyone to come on out andbeen enjoyin 50-75’ depth range. Grouper, mostly Scamp have some oysters and socializing.” the 75-110’ depth, Spanish have been wonderful on the

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Anglers & Shrimpers Vie for Fishing Rights I

n January of 2017, the NC Wildlife Federation issued a petition that would make it almost impossible for commercial fishermen to operate in North Carolina. The petition would designate most NC waterways, even the Atlantic Ocean three miles offshore, as special secondary nursery areas that would largely be off-limits to shrimp trawling.

In February of 2017 the Marine Fisheries Commission voted (5 to 3 with one abstention) to approve the NC Wildlife Federations Petition for Rulemaking (shrimp petition).

The vote to approve the petition started the administrative process for petitions for rulemaking which requires the Division of Marine Fisheries to prepare a fiscal analysis of the petition and submit it to the Office of State Budget Management (OSBM) for approval.

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funds were not available to implement the proposed changes without undue detriment to the DMF’s existing activities.

Because of this the Marine Fisheries Commission was notified at their February 2019 business meeting that no further action could be taken on the NC Wildlife Federations petition.

But more bills were proposed that would manage NC estuaries as a “public trust resource…to ensure their longterm conservation” and thus limit commercial fishing in favor of recreational fishing. That bill seems to have died in the House Committee on Wildlife Resources, but commercial fishermen still fear that if they are not vigilant, their livelihoods will be regulated out of existence.

This would harm both NC fishermen and NC consumers. North Carolina has had a long and proud tradition of commercial fishing dating back to colonial America. If these

fishermen are forced out of business, NC consumers would lose more than fresh seafood. North Carolina would lose the millions of dollars generated each year from commercial fishing and face an increased regulatory environment that taxpayers would inevitably have to support.

Typically, when special interest groups try to influence regulatory laws—in this case, the laws regulating how many fish fishermen can catch and where they can catch them— the regulations create a series of unintended consequences. These environmental regulations would affect suppliers, distributors, and ultimately the consumers of NC seafood.

NC seafood would either increase in price as supply dwindles or be replaced by imported seafood from aquaculture farms abroad, most of which lack the safety standards we expect in the U.S. The FDA tries to inspect suppliers and distributors in other countries, but this is a difficult task.

Periodically, fecal coliform bacteria and banned pesticides show up in imported seafood. Do you really want to substitute Got to be NC fresh seafood for that?

Then those environmental regulations inevitably put smaller commercial fishermen out of business. That happened in Florida in 1994 when the state, in a contentious referendum, banned the use of gill nets. The ban was designed to protect finfish species off the Florida coast, and while some fish stocks increased, the ban put many of the smaller, family-operated commercial fishermen out of business. That would be devastating if it happened in North Carolina since most NC commercial fishermen are already living in poor counties whose residents depend on commercial fishing to make a living. If those jobs disappeared, whole communities could go with them. Currently, if NC fishermen want to use gill nets in NC waters, they may have to carry state observers onboard to monitor their catches at “the State’s request,” so that the NC Marine Fisheries can monitor them and collect data. In 2014 North Carolinas commercial fishing industry requested that the NC General Assembly double the cost of commercial fishing licenses from $200.00 to $400.00 per year and use the extra revenue to pay for the states observer program to assure taxpayers would not be subsidizing our fisheries.

But the worst unintended consequence would be the loss of a profession— commercial fishing — unique to North Carolina’s identity.

Commercial fishing was as of 2014 the seventh-most regulated profession in the United States, a burden most small business owners do not face even in today’s hyper-regulated regulatory climate, and if today’s commercial fishermen are in fact regulated into oblivion, they would be the last of a long line of commercial fishermen in our state.

North Carolina has long boasted productive fishing grounds like the sounds at Core, Albemarle, and Pamlico, and commercial fishing has been a component of the NC economy since colonial America. The fishermen you see operating out near Oriental or Atlantic come from genera-

tions of crabbers and shrimpers since the combined pressure of environmental regulations and the hard salty, slimy life onboard a fishing boat precludes most people from ever wanting to become a fisherman. That is, unless your father or grandfather passed their nets down to you. Who else would want to spend days at a time onboard a trawler unless shrimping was just in your blood? Why not get with the times and learn to code? Or go to law school?

The dispute between these special interest groups illustrates the rapidly changing demographics and socioeconomic makeup of our state. Like tobacco farming and coal mining, commercial fishing represents a traditionally gritty North Carolinian way-of-life that seems at odds with the burgeoning tech and biotech workforce of RTP and the new mainstays of North Carolina’s economy. As North Carolina adds thousands of new jobs each month, professions that once were so integral to North Carolina’s identity now seem outdated and irrelevant. We want Amazon and Apple to move to North Carolina as much as anyone else, but not at the expense of viable professions that contribute to our economy in meaningful ways. How else are you going to get fresh seafood?

While we would not want overregulation to cause NC fisheries or fisherman to disappear. If they do, we would lose a unique part of NC’s heritage and get nothing but imported seafood in return. *End Note: The petition issued by the NC Wildlife Federation reads, “North Carolina rules do not distinguish between permanent SNAs and SSNAs. The rules prohibit the use of trawl nets, swipe nets, dredges, and other gear in PNAs.16 The rules also prohibit the use of trawl nets in SNAs and SSNAs.17 SSNAs, however, may be opened to trawling at the discretion of the Fisheries Director.18 The designation of nursery areas, which triggers additional restrictions on effort and gear in these areas, is a critical component of the MFC’s duty to protect and conserve the fisheries resources of the state,” from Gestwicki, T. (2016, November 2). Petition for Rulemaking to Amend 15A Admin. Code 3L .0101, 3L .0103, 3M .0522, 3M .0523, 3N .0151, and 3R .0105 to Designate Special Secondary Nursery Areas and Reduce Bycatch Mortality in North Carolina Coastal Fishing Waters.

Retrieved July 1, 2018, from http://ncwf.org/wp-content/ uploads/2016-11-02-NCWF-Petition-for-Rulemaking-w_Exhibits-A-F.pdf This article originally appeared on the Civitas Institute web site, https://www.nccivitas.org/2019/anglers-shrimpers-viefishing-rights/ Reprinted with Permissions from Winston Brady (Winston Brady is a Civitas contributor and teacher who works at a local private school.)

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Council recommended changes to their previously reco Commercial Issues Amendment are planned for the June Councilno meeting. in state waters based on location.

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Rules Mobile App the app will assume you are settings set&for federal Otherwise, Quotas Council recommended no changes to their previously reco Amendmen The Council reviewed their previously recommendhttp://safmc.net/blog/may-1-2019-what-fisheries-reopen-in-thein state waters based on location. Visit this page for some helpful tips Tilefish for 2020 Specifications Virginia Beach, VA – The Commission’s Summer edspecifications. bluelineGolden tilefish specifications the 2020 fishing The Council he federal-waters-of-the-south-atlantic/ & videos: Mobile The Council reviewed their previouslyfrom recommended golde Flounder, Scup,Fish and Rules Black Sea BassApp Management Board year. After considering recommendations the modifications to http://safmc.net/blog/may-1-2019-what-fisheries-reopen-in-the(Board) and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management CounSSC,Golden Tilefish Monitoring Committee, and Tilefish Adspecifications for the 2020 fishing year.

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AfterIllex considering recommendations from objectives the specifications focus on Virginia Beach, VA – The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea ment was to consider changes to both commercial and recreational summer SSC, Tilefish Monitoring Committee, Tilefishsupporting AdButterfish Fisheryand Management Plan and enha flounder fisheries, but over time was refocused to addressBass commercial issues Management Board (Board) and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management visory Panel, the Council recommended no changes optimizing social an and Fishery Management Plan (FMP) goals and objectives.

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The Amendment revises The the management program’s goals Council held a Squid, scopingandhearing on an amend Illex Permitting and Mackerel, Butterfish ing biological sustainability of the summer flounder resource, supporting and to summer flounder Butterfish Fishery Management Plan G and objectives specific and implements new state-specific modifications to the permitting system for Illex squid, a Fishery Management Plan Goals Amendment enhancing development of effective management measures, and optimizing Thespecies new state comm commercial allocations. modifications to the FMP goals for all in the The Council held a scoping hearing on an amendAmendment social and economic benefits from the resource. These revisions were made to point.

When the ann mentThe to consider modifications to the permitting sysASMFC & MAFMC Recommend Approval comment perioda ended April 12, 2019.

Council w Council held scoping hearing on The anthe amendm reflect current priorities in sustainably managing the resource. pounds, formula The Amendment was initiated in December 2013, with joint work on the tem for Illex squid, as well as potential modifications to comments and discuss next steps at their June 2019 mee Summer Flounder Issues Amendment The new state of commercial allocations are Commercial based upon aAmendment 9.55-million-pound modifications the permitting for same Illex state-spec squid, a the by the Board and Council beginning 2014.

Initially, the the FMP goalsinfor allto species in the FMP.system The scoping trigger point. When the annual coastwide commercial quota is at or below 9.55 toand the FMP goals all annual species in thequ Amendment wasQuotas to consider changes tomodifications bothperiod commercial recreational Amendment Implements New Commercial comment ended April 12, 2019.

The for Council will coastwide million pounds, & theMAFMC formula forRecommend allocating the quota to the states will remain million pounds will b ASMFC Approval comment period ended April 12, 2019.

The Council summer flounder fisheries, but over time was refocused to address commercial review scoping comments and discuss next steps at Atlantic States MFC Continued Here->The revised managementw status quo, i.e., the same state-specific percentages that have been in effect Hampshire and Dela issues and Fishery Management Plan (FMP) goals and objectives. their comments Juneobjectives 2019 meeting. and discuss next steps at their June 2019 focus on ensuring biological sustainability of themeet summ sinceof 1993.

When the annual coastwide quota exceeds 9.55Amendment million pounds, Summer Flounder Commercial Issues

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Virginia Beach, VA – The Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea

result, state allocati supporting and enhancing development of effective managemen coastwide -> optimizing social and economic benefits fromresulting the resource.

Thes approved annualp to reflect priorities inHere->The sustainablyrevised managing theanresource Atlantic Statescurrent MFC Continued management on the of timing of fina objectives focus on ensuring biological sustainability the summ could go into effect The new state commercial allocations are based upon a 9.55-mi supporting and enhancing development of effective managemen point.social When and the annual coastwide commercial is at or be optimizing economic benefits from the quota resource.

These pounds, the formula for allocating the quota to the states will re to reflect current priorities in sustainably managing the resource. the same state-specific percentages that have been in effect sinc annual coastwide quota exceeds 9.55 million pounds, additional The new state commercial allocations are based upon a 9.55-mill million pounds will be distributed as follows: 0.333% to the state summer flounder fisheries, but over time was refocused to address commercial point.

When the annual coastwide commercial quota or belo north carolina fisheries association 43is atstates Hampshire and Delaware and 12.375% to the remaining ( issues and Fishery Management Plan (FMP) goals and objectives. pounds, the formula for allocating the quota to the states will rem The Amendment was initiated in December 2013, with joint work on the result, state allocations will vary over time based on overall stoc

additional quota Bass above 9.55 million pounds follows: Management Board (Board)will andbe thedistributed Mid-Atlanticas Fishery Management Amendment New Commercial Quotas next column 0.333% to the states ofImplements Maine, New Hampshire and Delaware and 12.375% Council (Council) recommended approval of Continued the Summer Flounder Commercial to the remaining Issues statesAmendment. (see table The below).

As a result, allocations will Amendment revisesstate the management program’s goals vary Virginia over time based on– overall stock status and flounder the Flounder, resulting coastwide comandVA objectives specific to summer and implements Beach, The Commission’s Summer Scup, and new Blackstate-specific Sea mercial quotas. For 20192021, the Board and Council approved an annual commercial allocations.

Bass Management Board (Board) and the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management coastwide commercial quota of 11.53 million pounds. Depending on the timing Council (Council) approval ofstate the Summer of final rule-making byrecommended NOAA Fisheries, the new allocationFlounder strategyCommercial could The Amendment was initiated in December 2013, with joint work on the Issues Amendment.

Amendment go into effect as early as The January 2020. revises the management program’s goals Amendment by the Board and Council beginning in 2014. Initially, the and objectives specific to summer flounder and implements new state-specific Amendment was to consider changes to both commercial and recreational commercial allocations.

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have been writing for the North Carolina Fisheries Association’s Tradewinds publication for approximately a year and a half. During this time, I have often criticized sport-fishermen for many things.

As you may already know, although my commercial ties are great, I am a sport fisherman.

Back in the days of the late 1960’s, the 1970’s, and the 1980’s, I harvested more bigeye tuna on rod and reel than anyone else in the world.

Though I often call this activity out as hypocritical, the honest truth is that I and hundreds of other sport-fishermen sold our fish to defray expenses. We can’t have it both ways.

Throughout time, George Dixon and so many others used to rally and school blue-fin tuna within 10 to 18 miles offshore as a main staple, trolling cedar plugs and jigging a lead headed spoon. These great fish were terrific table-fare and were a great fish on light tackle. The school blue-fin were between 15 to 30 pounds and could be seen by the thousands, migrating in pods in late May, June, and July.

These fish literally supported the charter fleet of all of eastern Long Island, including Montauk. These blue-fin had been migrating down the Eastern shore of Long Island for over 15 years, and not only were a real staple to the charter fleet but simply-said, supported an easy half of the population of eastern Long Island. Hotels, tackle stores, grocery stores, and more all benefited by the onslaught of migrating small blue-fin tuna.

One spring day (unbeknownst to the charter fleet) several monster foreign net boats moved into eastern Long Island. There were boats from Venezuela, boats from north Africa and later even boats from the southern United States. These huge vessels circled the schools of tuna using other boats and small helicopters to close the circle on the net and took school after school of these migrating blue-fin. In those days, these fish were used for dog food. The foreign commercial fleet unequivocally and non-negotiably hammered the resource without the National Marine Fisheries lifting a finger. I don’t know what permits they had or didn’t have, and I don’t know what was legal or what wasn’t legal. What I do know for a fact is they literally killed the fishery

for the next 8 to 10 years. Migrating fish never came back to Long Island. Not only did the foreign commercial netters kill the fishery, but they also killed the eastern Long Island economy.

They put many people out of business and many charter fishermen lost their boats and homes.

Another instance in my lifetime was when the foreign commercial matters hammered the menhaden bait schools from New York City to Block Island. These bait fish were used for ground chum, they were used for oil, and they were also pulverized and dried for fertilizer and pet food.

Every boat that had a net, whether it be a large boat dragging a net offshore, small boats dragging nets inshore, or bay-men setting floating nets across the bays, literally every single one of these groups almost wiped out this resource.

The striped bass, a perishable resource to eastern Long Island, Montauk, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, etc. has hardly showed up for approximately five years in a row. The striped bass feed on our menhaden, often called “bunker”.

The lack of striped bass was a major blow to the economy of New England. Simply put, “no bait, no fish”. I write this not to put down commercial fisherman or to give sport-fishermen ammunition, I write this only because it happened and it illustrates that unregulated commercial fishing and unregulated sport fishing can do major harm to a fishery.

At the time of both of these stories, the implementation of the laws preventing stuff like this happening we’re not in effect. Our natural resource, being the ocean, is cast on the fabric which is strong

Written by: Capt. Tred Barta

and very gentle. It requires the ebb and flow of nature and it requires fishing regulations that are managed on science, not voodoo. Often when I hear commercial fishermen tell me that the commercial industry never wiped out a fishery or hurt it, that’s not a true statement. I was alive and on deck for two of the major catastrophes. For a very shocking statement, commercial cod boats are blamed for almost the extinction of cod and pollock on the east coast. That is not true, the decimation of cod came from two sources: hundreds upon hundreds of sport boats selling their catch and National Marine Fisheries doing a piss poor job of regulating.

My name is Tred Barta. Some people love me, some people hate me. Some people hate to love me and vice versa. I tell it as I see it, and the more truth we can tell, the closer sporties and commercial guys will come together for the common good for both. ‘Til next time, see you on the rip!

A MAN OR

A MINDSET?

TRED BARTA KNOWS NO LIMITS.

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