Saving Seafood

  • Home
  • News
    • Alerts
    • Conservation & Environment
    • Council Actions
    • Economic Impact
    • Enforcement
    • International & Trade
    • Law
    • Management & Regulation
    • Regulations
    • Nutrition
    • Opinion
    • Other News
    • Safety
    • Science
    • State and Local
  • News by Region
    • New England
    • Mid-Atlantic
    • South Atlantic
    • Gulf of Mexico
    • Pacific
    • North Pacific
    • Western Pacific
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • Links
    • Fishing Terms Glossary
  • Join Us
    • Individuals
    • Organizations
    • Businesses

SOUTH CAROLINA: One of last SC commercial fishing hubs could close. Land trust seeks funds to save it.

April 29, 2019 — Larry Mcclellan can look from the porch of his century-old farmhouse out across Jeremy Creek where the shrimp boats rock under their hanging nets.

Mcclellan captains one of the boats there and his son captains another. The creek, which leads to the rich Bulls Bay shellfish waters, is his livelihood and his life. The hub of it all, where the boats are moored, is the Carolina Seafood dock.

That’s how integral Carolina Seafood owner Rutledge Leland’s business is to McClellanville, the modest fishing village north of Charleston.

The seafood dock is the cultural heart of the place. And it could be lost.

Mcclellan was among a roomful of town residents who turned out at a Charleston County Greenbelt meeting last week to support an East Cooper Land Trust request for funding to conserve the Carolina Seafood dock as an open space and cultural heritage worth protecting with sales tax dollars, but also as a business.

Read the full story at The Post and Courier 

Recent Headlines

  • Offshore Wind Awaits Federal Environmental Reports
  • NEW YORK: Disappearing bluefish lead to regulators’ plan to limit catch
  • NEW YORK: Cuomo requests federal disaster declaration, aid for scallop die-off
  • Maine Lobstering Union suing wholesalers, claiming they stole nearly USD 2 million
  • Global salmon production set to rise 6.5% in 2019, the highest increase since 2014
  • Halibut in steady decline throughout Pacific, says commission
  • ALASKA: Council recommends raising 2020 Bering Sea pollock quota by 2%, cutting cod TAC
  • What To Do With ‘Peter Pan’ Scallops

Most Popular Topics

Alaska Aquaculture ASMFC Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission California Canada Climate change Cod Donald Trump Florida Gloucester groundfish Gulf of Maine Gulf of Mexico Illegal fishing IUU fishing Lobster Maine Massachusetts Mid-Atlantic National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NEFMC New Bedford New England New England Fishery Management Council New Jersey New York NMFS NOAA NOAA Fisheries North Carolina North Pacific offshore energy Offshore wind Pacific right whales Salmon Scallops South Atlantic Tuna Western Pacific Whales wind energy Wind Farms

Daily Updates & Alerts

Enter your email address to receive daily updates and alerts:
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Tweets by @savingseafood

Copyright © 2019 Saving Seafood · WordPress Web Design by Jessee Productions