January 10, 2024 — Throughout this month and with the help of 25 commercial fishermen and women, the N.C. Coastal Federation will undertake efforts to find and remove potentially harmful lost fishing gear. This is the tenth year the federation has held the annual Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project.
Throughout the month watermen will scour parts of the northern and central coast looking to find and remove lost crab pots. Every year, crab pots and other fishing gear are lost in our sounds in various ways.