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Are there seasons or can commercial fishing industries fish all year long? And any additional details you know of…
What is the commercial fishing scene in North Carolina?
August 29th, 2010 
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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 huge catch up and down the coast. By the way, the recreational sector is suffering. Since there is no right way to assess how much fish the recreational sector gets, the numbers never act of kindness them and they are reported as catching more fish then they in fact do.
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 largest ports are 1.Beaufort-Morehead City, NC 2. Wanchese-Small Point, NC 3. Engelhard-Swanquarter, NC 4. Oriental-Vandemere, NC 5. Sneads Ferry-Swansboro, NC. the main victim is most likley crabs, scallops, clams, tuna, shark, bluefish, swordfish, and giant bluefin tuna in the winter
nice thought.but no states are issuing new comm.lic’s. NC included. I am a comm. additional north. looked into NC past Feb. didn’t like the numbers. excellent luck