What is the commercial fishing scene in North Carolina?

Question

More specifically What ports or fisheries exist in N.C. and which fish or crustaceans are the most lucrative?
Are there seasons or can commercial fishing industries fish all year long? And any other details you know of...

Answer 1

From Maine to North Carolina, the commercial fishing boats are under the same regulations. They are limited to the tonnage of fish they catch. Once they reach the limit, they have to stop or else receive stiff fines in the tens of thousands of dollars. Summer flounder is the big catch up and down the coast. By the way, the recreational sector is suffering. Since there is no accurate way to estimate how much fish the recreational sector gets, the numbers never favor them and they are reported as catching more fish then they actually do.

Answer 2

I am a commercial fisherman out of Barnegat light new jersey and i work on a scalloper but idk alot about north carolina though. Here what i do know. NC commercial scene is like this. the biggest ports are 1.Beaufort-Morehead City, NC 2. Wanchese-Stumpy Point, NC 3. Engelhard-Swanquarter, NC 4. Oriental-Vandemere, NC 5. Sneads Ferry-Swansboro, NC. the main quarry is most likley crabs, scallops, clams, tuna, shark, bluefish, swordfish, and giant bluefin tuna in the winter

Answer 3

nice idea.but no states are issuing new comm.lic's. NC included. I am a comm. further north. looked into NC past Feb. didn't like the numbers. good luck