Record #:

8342

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) likely will designate North Carolina's first Marine Protected Area (MPA) when it meets in March 2007 to adopt amendment 14 to the Snapper Grouper Fisheries Management Plan. The MPA, one of eight covering waters from North Carolina to the Florida Keys, is being established to protect species of the snapper grouper complex from directed fishing pressures in federal waters. The snapper grouper complex is comprised of seventy-three species, including deep-water, slow-growing species, such as snowy grouper, misty grouper, speckled hind, Warsaw grouper, golden tilefish, and blueline tilefish.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 70 Issue 12, Dec 2006, p36, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fishery management; Groupers; Fishes--Conservation

Record #:

13342

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

The Mountain Heritage Trout Waters program, established in 2008, promotes trout fishing as a North Carolina Heritage Tourism activity. Streams in McDowell and Yancey Counties have recently been added to the program.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 74 Issue 12, Dec 2010, p36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Trout fishing

Record #:

7733

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

When completed, the North Carolina Birding Trail will be a network of bird-watching sites across the state linked by highways and marked as a single entity. Over thirty states have similar trails that generate millions of ecotourism dollars and provide funds to protect vanishing bird habitats.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Apr 2006, p36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Birding sites

Record #:

7493

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

Hunters in the Northeast Hunt Zone will have a winter season for Canada geese for the first time since 1992. The zone is comprised of all or parts of eleven counties in the northeastern Coastal Plain. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had closed the zone to hunting in an attempt to allow a declining migrating population a chance to rebound. North Carolina has both a resident Canada geese population and a migratory one. The resident one now numbers over one million while the migratory remains constant at around five thousand. Wildlife biologists hope to find reasons for this through examinations of the shot geese. The wildlife service will issue only five hundred permits, and each hunter can shoot one goose.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 11, Nov 2005, p36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Canada goose--Monitoring--North Carolina, Northeastern; Goose shooting

Record #:

19280

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 74 Issue 7, July 2010, p36 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bats--Diseases

Record #:

8683

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 71 Issue 3, Mar 2007, p36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

American chestnut

Record #:

7491

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

The periauger was flat-bottomed, dugout workboat in the state's waterways during the 18th- and early 19th-centuries that disappeared in the first half of the 19th-century. Improved roadways, the opening of more railroad lines, and the steamboat contributed to its demise. Archaeologists have yet to find the remains of a vessel of this type in the state. In 2004, a group of marine historians successfully planned, built, and sailed a reproduction of periauger. Wilson discusses the project.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 11, Nov 2005, p20-25, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Shipbuilding--History; Work boats--History

Record #:

6890

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

The 2004 North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation creating a saltwater fishing license. The issue had been debated for over a decade. Fishermen will not be required to have the license until January 1, 2006. Then residents and nonresidents who fish from the shore or a boat in the state's marine waters will be required to purchase the $15 license annually. Vacationers may purchase a seven-day license for $1.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 68 Issue 10, Oct 2004, p34, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fisheries--Laws and legislation; Fish and game licenses; Saltwater fishing

Record #:

7499

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

The state's ocean and coastal fisheries are showing limited signs of progress as two stocks, striped mullet and sharks, are upgraded to recovering, as reported in a stock status report from the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries. Weakfish was downgraded to overfished, and summer flounder was moved to the concerned category. The 2005 stock report lists fish in the following categories: viable, recovering, concerned, overfished, and unknown.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 10, Oct 2005, p37, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fisheries--Statistics

Record #:

7754

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

The side-by-side barreled shotgun was the gun of choice for most bird hunters in the 19th and early 20th centuries. While the over-and-under barreled shotgun became more popular in the 20th century, the side-by-side continued to hold a special place among wing shooters. Wilson feels this continued use is caused by a combination of nostalgia, the beauty feel of the gun, and a certain grace this gun possesses that no other gun can match. He discusses the Vintagers, also known as the Order of Edwardian Gunners, which formed in 1994. This group not only appreciates the double-barreled gun, but many members like to dress in clothing of the Edwardian era (1895-1914), when they are in the field.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Apr 2006, p20-24, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Shotguns

Record #:

7122

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

In 1965, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission surveys indicated a quail harvest by hunters of almost three million birds. By 2002, the number had dropped to around two hundred thousand. The primary cause of the decline is that the birds no longer have the habitat they require. Increasing population demands more land for businesses and homes. Farmers became more efficient with their land and planted crops that didn't benefit quail as corn, wheat, and soybeans had. Fires, which once benefited quail habitats, are now more controlled in the forests. Wilson discuss this decline and what, if anything, can be done to restore the quail population.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 3, Mar 2005, p4-10, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bird populations; Quails

Record #:

9403

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 71 Issue 9, Sept 2007, p36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Northern snakehead

Record #:

19270

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

Although a time-consuming recipe, Brunswick Stew has become a staple and cultural icon of eastern North Carolina. Recipe included.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 74 Issue 6, June 2010, p8-13, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Stews--North Carolina, Eastern

Record #:

24496

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

Fly-fishing has long been a popular pastime in North Carolina, particularly in the mountains. The history of the western North Carolina sport dates back to the nineteenth century.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 79 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 2015, p14-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina, Western--History; Fly-fishing

Record #:

11169

Author(s):

Wilson, Jim

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 73 Issue 6, June 2009, p36, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fishing--Records; Channel catfish