Undergrads to present Currituck Sound research findings
Dec 6, 2024 · UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment’s Outer Banks Field Site students, shown here, will present the findings of their Capstone Research Project Dec. 12 at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus.Photo: Coastal Studies Institute
Lookout to take cabin reservations, sell vehicle passes Jan. 4
Dec 10, 2024 · Cost for preseason off-road vehicle permits is $35 between Jan. 4 and March 12, 2025, up $10 from 2024. Permits for the regular season will cost $75 starting March 13, 2025, through the remainder of the year, up $25 from the current year.
Winter Waterfowl Excursion to resume after 4-year pause
Dec 9, 2024 · North Carolina Maritime Museums officials are bringing back the overnight tour of wildlife refuges and seashores throughout Pamlico, Hyde and Dare counties to observe wintering waterfowl.. The Coastal Culture and Waterfowl Watching Excursion, a two-day adventure through the wildlife refuges and seashores in Eastern North Carolina, will be offered Jan. 8-9, 2025, and again Dec. 9-10, 2025 ...
Corps to discuss Surf City federal nourishment project
Sep 18, 2024 · The project will be the largest beach nourishment project to have been accomplished on the East Coast, according to the town’s website. Initial construction is expected to take 16 months, during which time an estimated 7.9 million cubic yards of sand is anticipated to be injected onto the town’s nearly 6-mile beach.
Alligator River refuge to celebrate 40 years of conservation
Nov 14, 2024 · The 160,000-acre protected area that was established in 1984 “to protect wetlands and wildlife, including migratory birds and endangered species,” according to the refuge.. The land is home to one of the highest densities of American black bear ever recorded, where the endangered red wolf, which was formerly extinct in the wild, was reintroduced, and home to more than 250 species of birds.
Perquimans answers longtime call to develop water access
Aug 27, 2024 · County Manager Frank Heath stood recently on the edge of a wide, bulkheaded boat basin telling Coastal Review about the Perquimans County Marine Industrial Park that, after more than 10 years of false starts and missed steps, finally completed the first phase of the project last year: The $7 million deep-water boat basin now allows direct water access to the Albemarle sound.
Waste discharge agreement moves toward becoming rule
Nov 19, 2024 · The Environmental Management Commission has advanced proposed changes that would codify an existing, long-term agreement with a coalition of wastewater dischargers in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin. The changes mainly include incorporating into the existing Tar-Pamlico wastewater discharge requirements ...
Whales that use echolocation mistake plastic for prey: study
Nov 8, 2024 · It is widely assumed that seals and toothed whales mistake plastic for food because of appearance, particularly plastic bags and films that look like squid and jellyfish, according to the study, but that doesn’t explain why deep-diving species like sperm whales and beaked whales that use echolocation are ingesting plastic.
Fisheries committee to hear presentation on seagrasses
Oct 8, 2024 · The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission's Habitat and Water Quality Advisory Committee meeting is set for Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Morehead City and on YouTube.
‘Catastrophic crisis’: Imported shrimp flood US market
Nov 1, 2023 · Foreign shrimp imports are overwhelming the country’s inventories of shrimp and driving market prices for locally sourced shrimp to record lows, prompting widespread calls from elected officials and organizations throughout southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast states for the federal government to declare a fishery resource disaster.
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