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19270
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Although a time-consuming recipe, Brunswick Stew has become a staple and cultural icon of eastern North Carolina. Recipe included.
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19274
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Boaters in North Carolina now have easier access to state waters given the productivity of N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission's Division of Engineering Services. The group has been renovating, replacing, and building Boating Access Areas (BAA) from the mountains to the coast.
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19280
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North Carolina wildlife biologists are keeping an eye on the state's bat populations and preparing for the possible arrival of a fungus associated with a deadly bat disease.
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10920
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The Roanoke logperch, one of the largest darters in the perch family, is on the federally endangered fish list. It was thought to live only in portions of Virginia, but in 2008, two logperch populations were found in the Smith and Mayo rivers in Rockingham County.
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11169
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Wilson recounts how Rocky Mount angler, E. J. Bowden, got his state record for catching a channel catfish returned after almost thirty-nine years. Bowden caught the channel catfish, which weighed twenty-three pounds and four ounces, in City Lake in Rocky Mount. However, through a mix-up, it was years before he got official recognition for the catch.
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11574
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Flathead catfish, natives of the Mississippi River basin, were introduced into the Cape Fear River. They rapidly reproduced and spread into other rivers of the Coastal Plain, including the Tar, White Oak, and Neuse. The introduction was an unfortunate mistake as the flathead is destroying a number of native fish populations.
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10150
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Wilson discusses catch-and-release fishing in North Carolina. The program came to the state in 1954 on trout streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The program is an approach to having more fish available to catch and emphasizes the recreational rather than the consumptive value of fish.
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10153
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Wilson discusses progress in the Roanoke River American Shad Restoration Program, which was started over a decade ago to enhance the depleted fishery.
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10179
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Seafood caught by commercial fisherman declined for the fifth straight year in 2007, but the dockside value increased from the previous year. Total recreational landings by pounds declined by 7.3 percent from 2006.
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8452
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Jeff Evans, superintendent of the Watha State Fish Hatchery in Pender County, and his staff have overseen extensive renovations at the facility. Wilson discusses the renovations which will increase by 50 percent the hatchery's capacity to raise and stock warm water fishes in public, inland waters across the state.
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The Appalachian elktoe mussel was placed on the endangered species list in 1994. Between 2004 and 2006, North Carolina Wildlife Commission biologists studied this mussel on the Little Tennessee River between the town of Franklin and the Fontana Reservoir and reported a decline in its population. There is no obvious reason for the decline, and biologists are not ruling out disease, parasites, or toxins. Part of the decline is attributed to flooding from tropical storms Frances and Ivan. Even more puzzling is that five other mussel species in the same area at the same time have stable populations.
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8683
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Once covering nine million acres in the eastern United States and Ohio River Valley, the American chestnut was virtually eliminated by an Asian fungus blight in the 1900s. The National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) are working together to plant blight-resistant chestnut trees. The chestnut was an important food source for wild turkeys. The restoration of the chestnut is a long-term project. The new tree in development will have the blight resistance of the Chinese chestnut and the physical appearance of the American chestnut.
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9403
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Last spring a Northern snakehead was caught and released in the Catawba River. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has urged anglers not to release any further catches but to freeze or put them on ice and to notify the Commission. This fish, an Asian native, can displace local fish populations where it has been illegally introduced. Since 2002, transporting, purchasing, possessing, or selling live snakeheads in North Carolina has been illegal.
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7574
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The annual summer brood survey of wild turkeys, conducted by North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission biologists, found that the state had its second-poorest hatch ever in 2005. Only 53 percent of the hens had young turkeys. The worst year was 2003, when only 51 percent of the hens had young. Wilson discuses reasons for this and what effect the small birthrate will have on the hunting season.
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Quail Forever was founded in the summer of 2005 by Pheasants Forever, a conservation group with over twenty years experience in maintaining and restoring pheasant habitats. The first chapter of Quail Forever in North Carolina was formed by sportsmen in the southern Coastal Plain. The chapter will focus its efforts on improving quail habitats in the area's public lands.
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