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Three NC fish house dealers convicted of illegally buying red drum

Three North Carolina fish house dealers were recently found guilty of buying protected red drum without reporting the transactions to the state, according to the NC Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF).

Convicted of buying red drum without recording the transactions on a trip ticket were Donald Carlisle Gilgo of Coastal Seafood in Sea Level, William Jerry Warren of Fresh Ketch in Grantsboro and Floyd Shelton Cuthrell of S&S Seafood in Aurora.

Red drum are North Carolina’s state saltwater fish. NC is one of the few states left which has a red drum population but still permits commercial fishermen to catch and sell them, so transactions between fish house and commercial fishermen are closely monitored.

Read the complete story from The Examiner.

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