Tradewinds November/December 2019

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November/December 2019

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STORM-TESTED

Keith Bruno of Oriental, NC Pays it Forward

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Tradewinds

A publication of the North Carolina Fisheries Association Tradewinds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world’s oceans for centuries. The captain of a sailing ship would seek a course along which the winds could be expected to blow in the direction of travel.

Tradewinds were important in the development of trade and provided a means of transportation and communications to isolated coast communities We are still isolated in a sense even with our modern ships, aircraft, telecommunications and the internet.

We need a connection from island to island, person to person…and to the rest of the world.

We hope that this Tradewinds will become as important to you as the Tradewinds were to our ancestors, not only to in-landers wanting to know more about the coast, but coastal people learning about other coastal people.

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November/December 2019 Nikki Raynor............................. 4

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From Your Editor...................... 4 A Word From Jerry................... 5 Brown’s Island 11 & 12Mullet Roe............................. 6-7

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Maritime Angels....................... 9 Did You Know?........................11 What to Know & Where to Go... 13 Core Sound Waterfowl Museum......................15 Bill Hitchcock............................ 17 What’s in Season: Winter............19 FEATURE STORY

Storm-Tested: Keith Bruno of Oriental, NC Pays it Forward............................. 20-21

On the Cover: Keith Bruno Photo by: Barbara Garrity-Blake

Councils & Commissions....... 39

Affiliate Contacts.................... 33

Marketplace....................... 24-25

AMSEA.............................. 34-35

Mailboat...............................................................27

Red...Right............................. 37

Talk on the Dock: It was a Bluebird Day....... 30-31

Membership Application......... 47

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TW Disclaimer: Articles and letters appearing in Tradewinds are the opinions of the authors and unless specifically noted may or may not reflect the opinions or official positions of the North Carolina Fisheries Association.

(25) Above Right Photo: Chef Ricky seasoning his Country Fried Potatoes with Onions and Green Peppers. Author’s collection

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We’ll keep you updated on the latest industry news by mail, email, or fax. You’ll also receive a copy of this educational publication bimonthly. For a limited time, you still have the option to receive a free sweatshirt or t-shirt when you sign up as a new member. Be sure to check out our Facebook page for photos of the t-shirts and sweatshirts we have to offer, as well as other news that we share (www.facebook.com/NCFisheriesAssoc/). We are a non-profit organization, so your support greatly matters. Join today! www.ncfish.org/join/ Membership Applications can be mailed to: North Carolina Fisheries Association PO Box 86 Morehead City, NC 28557 Your Membership Application can be found on page 39 of this publication.

For more information, you can email your questions to nikki@ncfish.org or call (252) 726-6232. We wish you a joyous Thanksgiving, a very merry Christmas, and a prosperous New Year!

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From your Editor Thank you to each and every one of you for your support!

I hope that you are satisfied with the story qualities that are provided in this publication. My main focus and purpose for taking on this task is to keep our fishermen informed, educate the public and to show that you (whether you are a fisherman or a consumer) are an ESSENTIAL part of our industry!

If there is a question, subject or interest that you may have and would like to see in this magazine, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I will try my best to get the question answered, story written or interest directed to the proper people that will supply that information for you.

With your continued support, we can show that we are using conservative, sustainable practices to keep our industry going for the years to come.

Thank you Again!!!

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NCFA Legislative Affairs, Jerry Schill

A word from Jerry ...

WINTER UPDATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY:

As I write this the General Assembly is still in session. The Senate says they may adjourn soon and the House says it will probably be the end of the year. Nothing really new to report since the last column, but it is a tad difficult to keep you up to date on issues via Tradewinds due to being published every other month and the time between writing this column and when you actually receive the magazine. If you want to get info in a timelier manner on specific issues, please request that your email address be added to our Weekly Update list as we send it out weekly.

FEDERAL: SENATE COMMITTEE DISCUSSES OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE:

On October 16th the US House Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing on FEEDING AMERICA: MAKING SUSTAINABLE OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE A REALITY. The description about the hearing provided by the committee: This hearing will examine opportunities and barriers to expanding sustainable aquaculture in the U.S. Witnesses will discuss the environmental, economic, and social realities of open ocean

aquaculture, and the need for a streamlined and predictable policy framework for advancing the development of offshore aquaculture.

Senator Roger Wicker from Mississippi, Chairman of the Committee, indicated he will introduce a bill next year. Similar legislation introduced in the past was unsuccessful.

CONGRESSMAN MURPHY VISITS PAMLICO COUNTY DOCK:

Newly elected Congressman from the Third District, Greg Murphy made a stop in Pamlico County to discuss federal fishing issues. We made arrangements for a meeting at the dock of Endurance Seafood in Oriental. We talked primarily about how the Endangered Species Act is affecting commercial fishing and the H2B Guest Worker problems that hurt the crabbing industry in North Carolina. The crabbers told Greg about turtles destroying their crab pots. He also asked about the southern flounder issue, although that’s a state issue.

We appreciate Keith Bruno allowing us to meet at his dock and for Congressman Greg Murphy, Lindy Robinson and Wayne King attending. (Wayne is the Deputy Chief of Staff and District Director for Congressman Mark Meadows, also of North Carolina and Chairman of the Freedom Caucus.)

Jerry Schill, NCFA Legislative Affairs

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Brown’s Island 11 & 12Mullet Roe OCTOBER 22, 2017 / DAVID CECELSKI

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ullet roe drying in the sun, Brown’s Island, 1938.

The salted and sun-dried egg sacs of jumping mullet were a local delicacy and at least occasionally brought high prices in the New York market.

The big roe mullet usually began to appear in local waters in late October or early November. After slitting open the fish’s belly and removing the roe, the fishermen washed and salted the roe and let it soak in the salt for two or three hours.

They then rinsed off the salt and laid the roe out on planks to dry in the sun, gently pressing it flat and turning it occasionally for the first few days.

The color of the roe ranged from a pale yellow-orange to a beautiful sunset orange. In a week or two, the mullet roe acquired the hard consistency of Parmesan cheese, at which time the men strung together pieces of the sun-dried roe with twine in bunches of a dozen

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and stored them in barrels or hung them from the eaves of a cabin.

Sun-dried mullet roe was a favorite dish in many families in Otway and other parts of Down East. Fishermen often carried the roe in their coat pockets and ate it uncooked like beef jerky as a snack or as lunch on their boats.

When I visited with him recently, H. B. Lawrence remembered that his grandfather, Bedford Lawrence, always returned home from Brown’s Island with a couple barrels of sun-dried mullet roe. His grandfather hung them in bunches in a cool, well-ventilated part of his attic to preserve them better.

Like me, H. B. is still an enthusiast of sun-dried mullet roe, preferring it best of all baked with sweet potatoes.

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Menhaden can reach up to 15 inches in length.

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Menhaden has silver body with large black dot behind the gills (also known as Humeral spot). Some species have series of smaller black spots behind the main spot.

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Menhaden has moderately compressed body and deeply forked tail.

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Menhaden is filter-feeder. It swims with mouth wide open and collects small particles of food from the water. Gills work like a sieve (they separate edible particles from the water). Juveniles mostly feed on phytoplankton (smaller food particles), while adults eat zooplankton (larger food particles).

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Menhaden is also known as “fat-back” or “bunker” because of the high content of fat in the meat.

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Natural enemies of menhaden are striped bass, weakfish, bluefish, summer flounder, sharks, sea turtles, ospreys, seagulls, egrets and eagles.

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Menhaden is slow swimmer that lives and travels in large schools.

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Schools are stratified by the age and size of fish. Juveniles usually swim near the southern coasts, while adults occupy northern areas.

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Menhaden swim near the surface of the water almost entire year (except during the winter). They prefer areas with water temperature of 18 degrees of Celsius.

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Spawning of menhaden takes place from March to May and from September to October.

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Young females produce 38.000 eggs, while adult females produce around 362.000 eggs per season. Fertilization takes place in the water. Fertilized eggs float on the surface of water 2 to 3 days (until they hatch).

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Larvae live in estuaries, bays and lagoons with fresh and brackish water during the spring and summer. At the age of one year, juveniles migrate toward the open sea.

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Menhaden reach sexual maturity at the age of 2 years.

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Native Americans used menhaden to fertilize fields of corn in the past. First European settlers used menhaden as a source of oil for the oil lamps. Today, oil obtained from the meat of menhaden has application in the cosmetic industry (for the manufacture of lipsticks), industry of paints and lubricants and for the preparation of various dietary supplements.

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Menhaden can survive 10 to 12 years in the wild.

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ore Sound’s 2019 Christmas Season will include events at both their Downtown Morehead City location (806 Arendell Street) and at Harkers Island.

While repairs continue at the museum facility, 806 Arendell Street will be the centerpiece of the museum’s Core Sound Christmas with events throughout November and December. “We are eager to get back home to our museum,” said Pam Morris, Museum Collections Manager, “and we are making progress. We hope our big weekend will bring all everyone to the “end of the road” to see the progress and learn more about what we have planned for our reopening in April.”

During the first full weekend of December, Core Sound will be in both locations. Waterfowl Weekend, to be held December 6-7-8, will happen at Harkers Island with a celebration of the progress so far on the museum rebuild and a preview of the museum’s reopening in April, while Core Sound activities continue Downtown.

CHRISTMAS SEASON CALENDAR (includes both HI and MHC locations)

Nov 1-2-3: MHC: Core Sound’s Annual Crabpot Tree Sale (20% off all trees; those days only) Nov 9: MHC: Carteret County Veteran’s Parade, 11 am Nov 23: MHC: Core Sound Christmas Open House at 806, Santa & Friends (11-2), Refreshments Nov 30: MHC: Small Business Saturday and Downtown Morehead City Artwalk from 2-4 pm throughout downtown MHC HI: Harkers Island Community Tree Lighting, The Bridge, 7 pm Dec 6: HI: Core Sound Waterfowl Weekend Friday Night Preview – MUSEUM Dec 7-8: HI: Core Sound Waterfowl Weekend – MUSEUM Dec 7: MHC: Chowder & Cheer (Tickets on sale / MHC Train Depot starting Oct 28) Dec 14: MHC: Morehead City Christmas Parade, 11 am

Dec 15: HI: Down East Christmas Parade, 3 pm, Santa & Friends at the CSWM&HC after the parade “We are so thankful to be Downtown again this Christmas Season. Last year this time we were scrambling to get all our museum belongings in safe places and to create a “home away from home” at the Norris House Downtown. What a wonderful year we have here with art classes, porch talks, carvers on the porch, kids’ programming, gallery showings and the perfect location for Core Sound’s mainland operations. Many thanks to all who have stopped by, volunteered and supported us here. We know Christmas will be the best time yet!” added Karen Amspacher, Museum Director.

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Susan Mason’s “From the Edge” photography exhibition is now on display upstairs until mid-January when Chris & Bonnie Hunter will open their exhibition that runs through mid-May.

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Spirit Filled Words “But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” (Isaiah 11:4) Our spirit and soul are transmitted through the words we speak. The words that we speak are also expressions of our spirit and soul. Speech is more than communication of thought; it is a conduit for conveying our spirit. We pass our spirit onto others through speech.

Our spirit is our essence and being minus the physical body. Our spirit will impact and influence other spirits. In that regards spirit is power. Now is our spirit divine? Is it of God? If so then it will affect the spirit of others accordingly. God and His Spirit will move upon that person. Like kind spirits unite, dissimilar spirits fight and rebel.

When we communicate our spirit through speech it doesn’t necessarily depend upon the words spoken per se. Words are the vehicle and the spirit is the passenger that fills those words up.

For example, have you ever been around someone that you just knew was a Christian although he wasn’t proselytizing or maybe wasn’t even speaking about God at all?

The opposite holds true as well. You just knew in your bones that the person you were with was evil although nothing evil was spoken of. This type of discernment, being able to perceive good and bad spirits is discernment that comes from our spirit in concert with God’s Holy Spirit.

Jesus said that, “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). Conversely, the words that we speak, “thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matthew 12:37).

The ultimate power is God’s Holy Spirit through the spoken word. A good example of this is what has been prophesied in the Book of Revelations. Jesus gives fair warning to the Church at Pergamos.

“Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”

(Revelation 2:16-17) Jesus tells them to “repent” or I, “will fight against them with the sword of my mouth”. Nothing is more powerful than the spirit filled word. So powerful that the “worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3). So

powerful that Jesus Christ is called the “Word” (John 1:1).

To stress the union of the spirit and the word, notice the warning Jesus gives the Church at Pergamos, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” What the “Spirit saith”. Remember, Jesus said, “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit”. Guess what? The same holds true for you and I. The words we speak are spirit too.

God also makes it clear about His spoken word, that it will accomplish what it was set out to do.

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11) God has entrusted man with supreme power, with spirit filled words that will not return void!

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” (Proverbs 18:21) God well supplies for the needs of His children. When we accept Christ as our Savior, when we are in Christ and Christ is in us then we share the same Holy Spirit. What we say and do is as what Jesus would say and do because we only respond to the word of the Father “And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.” (Isaiah 51:16).

God’s children will do and speak God’s will, there’s just no getting around it for we are all one.

“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” (John 17:21).

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Keith Bruno of Oriental, NC Pays it Forward

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eith Bruno of Oriental, North Carolina has been blown about, battered, shaped, and made wiser by storms. The brawny fisherman from New York moved south because remnants of Hurricane Floyd washed pesticides – sprayed to combat mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus - into Long Island Sound and killed off all the lobsters.

Having lost his principal fishery, Bruno and his wife decided to make a go of it in North Carolina. They moved onto a tributary of the Neuse River in Pamlico County, geographically-shaped like a catcher’s mitt for storm surges, just in time for Hurricane Isabel.

“Isabel was our introduction to North Carolina,” he laughed. “I didn’t have anything yet, so we didn’t have anything to lose.”

Bruno launched Endurance Seafood by trying his hand at crabbing. He had a rough start.

“I had a 43-foot boat and went all the way down the sound to set crab pots. A guy out of Hatteras or Ocracoke came over to me in his skiff. He said, ‘You can’t set there!’ Why not? He said, ‘There ain’t no crabs there. Man, you’re wasting your time! I got a line of pots a quarter of a mile from here, set next to me.’”

Bruno was sure he was being set up for failure and ignored the advice. But sure enough, the next day when he pulled his pots, they were empty of crabs.

“Same fisherman came out to me again and said, ‘I told you! Go pull one of mine and see for yourself – that’s where they are.’ I said nope. After three or four times, he didn’t come to me anymore. Finally, I moved my pots to his area, and started making money! He waved and said, ‘Man, I’m glad you finally got it!’ It’s

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crazy how accepting people here have been of me!”

Bruno and his two young sons fished nets and pots for the next few years, growing the business. Then came Hurricane Irene in 2011.

“Irene was the worst storm we’d seen ever,” Bruno reflected. “We sat in the house and watched as she pulled the dock slowly apart. Then the cooler started rocking and threw the ice maker into the creek, a very expensive piece of equipment. And then the entire cooler started floating away!”

The next morning, once Irene’s nine-foot storm surge receded, Bruno took in the destruction. “All our crab pots were beat up against buildings, across the street, stuffed in trees, miles away. Gillnets were strewn across the street, thousands of yards of net entangled in branches. We were tore up.”

But that same day people began arriving to give him a hand. More came the next day, and the following day as well.

“The storm is terrible,” Bruno said, shaking his head. “The community after the storm is mind-blowing. People come together for no reason other than to help.”

Bruno was especially moved by the generosity shown to him by his neighboring seafood dealers. He said that George Brown, from Marshallberg, showed up with his crane and set Bruno’s cooler back on its foundation.

“I was of course elated and grateful, but with an uncertain future asked, ‘Can I pay you half now and half later?’ And he said no. I said, ‘Well okay, what’s it going to cost?’ No charge. He told me that Sherrill Styron over here at Garland Fulcher Seafood sent him to help me and said to put it on his bill. Chokes me

up to this day.”

As bad as Irene was, Hurricane Florence was even worse for the Bruno family. “Irene had a nine-foot surge, but Florence was nine and a half. Florence had more duration and more destruction. I had more stuff, so I had more stuff to lose.”

Recalling what happened during Irene, the Bruno family moved all their nets, pots, and boats to higher and safer ground in anticipation of Florence. They had converted an old box truck into a cooler with an ice maker on top, hoping to tow it to higher ground for the next storm. But as Florence got closer, he discovered that the box truck was mired deep into the soft ground and wouldn’t budge.

So, Bruno removed the ice maker and hoped for the best.

“We stayed in Arapaho and tried to get back the next morning, but the water was still high,” he explained. “My two sons stripped down and swam down here on a reconnaissance mission. They said, ‘The house is still there, but we can’t find the cooler.’ I said, ‘How can you not see a giant 30-foot white box?’ I was afraid my cooler got swept off the foundation into the marina down the creek, full of yachts - millions of dollars in damage my stuff could have cost other people!

But turns out the cooler had been beat to little pieces and swept away.”

Bruno and his family thought long and hard about how to better prepare for the next storm.

“What can we do going forward to make it better? Storms have gotten progressively worse over the years. I liked the mobility idea because it was clear that we can’t keep anything safe. I got the idea of a tractor trailer.”

Bruno bought a 48-foot semi tractor-trailer in New York and had it brought to Oriental.

“It sat in the driveway for two months while we thought about our plan. We have the mobile part, but how do we make it function has a fish house? Went down to Bally Refrigeration in Morehead City and talked about compressors, evaporators, and refrigeration needs. They ran a bunch of calculations, R values, and we measured foam thickness on the side of coolers and so on.”

The Endurance Seafood team came up with an innovative “fish house on wheels” that sits perpendicular to the water, with a roofed loading dock built around it.

“Half of this is a cooler, half is a freezer, and the back half is my ice room,” he explained. “Lots of halves there! Front piece is dry storage – closet for cartons.

So, it’s four parts.”

Still, Bruno worried about repeating his earlier mistake of getting mired in the soft mud.

“The thing is insanely heavy,” he said. “So, I talked to my friend at Prescott Marine and asked, ‘What do you think about pouring a slab back there?’ But there are permitting issues with a slab so close to the river. Bobby Prescott said, ‘Doesn’t have to be called a slab - how about a boat ramp?’”

Bruno got permission to pour a concrete boat ramp. He carefully leveled his mobile fish house on the slope.

“We’re fishermen and dock builders, not skilled at higher equations, but we got it all figured out,” he grinned.

Then, one year later came Hurricane Dorian.

“Dorian was coming up as a Cat 3, so we prepared like it was another Florence. The slab made it so the trailer wouldn’t sink in the mud. I called a friend with a tractor trailer to pull my mobile fish house up to the head of the road. He hooked it up and said, ‘Man, it won’t move. Your brakes are locked up! They’re rusted to the hubs!’”

Bruno and his sons got under the trailer with hammers and PV blaster and finally managed to break the brakes free. The truck driver told them in three or

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four years the brakes would have been frozen permanently.

“He showed us how to back the brakes away from the hubs so it’s not possible to freeze shut again. Turns out I’m lucky we had Dorian here because it taught us another lesson!”

Dorian was a good dry run. As the storm lost strength, Bruno calculated that the surge wouldn’t be as high as Florence. They towed the mobile fish house up the driveway to higher elevation without having to pull onto the paved road, where power lines would have necessitated disconnecting the ice machine from the roof.

“Dorian put four feet of tide here by the shore, and water just touched the wheels where we had the trailer up by the road. If Mother Nature didn’t force me to move this thing now, I might not have been able to move it later! We’re lucky it worked out.”

But with news of Dorian’s wrath on the Outer Banks, Bruno’s sense of relief was short lived.

“I saw the devastation on the news and felt for them. The Ocracoke fish house had been tore up just like I had been in the last two storms,” he reflected. “I don’t know them, but I know what they’re going through first-hand - it really affected me that I was over here fine, and they were devastated and there was nothing I could do for them.”

Bruno wracked his brain about how he might help the Ocracoke fish house.

He thought of Farm Aid and the fundraising Willy Nelson has done for farmers.

Could he sponsor something like that on a smaller scale? He called a musician who’d bought fish and shrimp from Endurance Seafood while visiting Oriental and floated his idea.

“Early this spring I met a guy named Charles Humphreys, bass player in a bluegrass band called Songs from the Road. Dude’s a Grammy winner. I called him and said, what do you think about a benefit concert? It didn’t take a second for him to say yes!”

The band found an open date later in September. It was on.

“They finished a concert at midnight, drove down, got here at five in the morning, took a nap and played here on my dock,” Bruno said. “The whole community helped – Piggly Wiggly donated the pig, water and soda came from New Bern, company called Wicked Weed from Asheville donated 1500 cans of beer! My refrigeration guy cooked the pig. Even the porta john was donated.”

He had over 250 people show up to support Ocracoke. They donated whatever they could, tossing cash and checks into a fish carton with a slot cut into the top of the box.

More than $10,000 was raised in one afternoon at oft-battered and hurricane-tested Endurance Seafood. The money would go to the Ocracoke Working Watermen’s Association, the non-profit set up years ago to save the island’s last fish house. Bruno reflected that helping the Ocracoke fish house rebuild allowed him the satisfaction of “paying it forward,” considering all the help he’d received in the wake of storms.

“Finally, I could give back; I could help the next person,” Bruno said. “Other than getting married and having kids, this was a highlight in my life.”

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Council & Commission Meetings South Atlantic Fishery Management Council News Release

September 23, 2019 Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council concluded their week-long meeting in Charleston, SC after approving federal fishery management measures intended to help implement best fishing practices and improve survivability of released fish. The measures, as included in Regulatory Amendment 29 to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan, would require fishermen fishing for snapper grouper species to have a descending device onboard and readily available for use when fishing in federal waters. The devices can be used to help reduce injuries caused by barotrauma, injury that occurs due to expansion of gas when fish are reeled up from deeper water. The condition may result in protruding stomachs from a fish’s mouth, enlarged eyes, and other conditions that keep fish from swimming back to depth. Descending devices are designed to help get the fish back down to deeper water and alleviate the symptoms. Both descending devices and venting tools, when properly used, can be used to treat barotrauma and significantly increase the likelihood that a released fish survives.

The amendment includes additional measures to modify existing requirements for the use of non-stainless-steel and circle hooks when fishing for snapper grouper species with natural baits to help reduce injury to released fish. A measure to standardize the use of powerhead gear by divers off the coast of South Carolina is also included. If approved by the Secretary of Commerce, regulations in Regulatory Amendment 29 may be implemented in 2020.

The Council had lengthy discussions about requiring the devices onboard and how to best define a descending device for regulatory purposes. “The intent is to encourage fishermen to use descending devices when necessary to help increase the likelihood that a fish pulled up rapidly from deep water survives,” said Council Vice Chair Mel Bel, representing the SC Department of Natural Resources Division of Marine Fisheries. “No one wants to see fish floating on the surface after being released. The purpose of the regulation isn’t to write tickets, but to reduce release mortality by providing fishermen with the understanding and tools needed to do so when they run offshore.”

Council members continued to stress the importance of outreach and education for informing fishermen on the proper use of the devices. A Best Practices video tutorial is currently available from the Council’s website at: https://safmc.net/electronic-reporting-projects/ myfishcount/ (click the “Best Practices” tab) and additional outreach materials will be developed. The regulatory amendment also includes a research and monitoring plan that recommends NOAA Fisheries monitor the use of descending devices and continue research to determine their effectiveness in reducing discard mortality. The information may be used to evaluate improvements in the survival of released snapper grouper species in order to incorporate new discard mortality estimates into future stock assessments .

Other Items The Council heard concerns from fishermen representing the commercial fishery for Spanish mackerel on the Outer Banks of NC and the charter industry from the Florida Keys. Fishermen spoke about the negative impacts of a recent closure of the commercial Spanish mackerel fishery in the Northern Zone (NC/SC line through NY). The Council reviewed a detailed “white paper” that provided analysis of effort in the fishery and discussed options to control effort as recommended by the Mackerel Cobia Advisory Panel. After listening to fishermen and reviewing the paper, Council members agreed to begin work on an amendment to revise accountability measures that would allow a stepdown to 500 pounds per trip once the Northern Zone quota is met, with the fishery closing once the total annual catch limit (recreational and commercial) is reached. The amendment will continue to be developed and information on upcoming public scoping and hearings distributed as it becomes available. Charter captains from the Florida Keys also expressed concerns about the dolphin fishery and its economic importance. The Council continues to work on a comprehensive amendment for the fishery.

New Executive Director The Council announced today that John Carmichael, the current Deputy Executive Director for Science and Statistics at the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council has been selected to become its next Executive Director.

Carmichael was selected to assume the position upon Executive Director Gregg Waugh’s retirement in December 2019. As the Deputy Director for Science, John currently manages the Council’s science activities such as the Scientific and Statistical Committee, stock assessments, and Citizen Science efforts. He has worked at the Council since 2003. Previous positions include serving as a stock assessment scientist with the NC Division of Marine Fisheries Commission; Fishery Management Plan Coordinator with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; and a biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. “I am honored to be chosen by the Council to serve at the next Executive Director,” said Carmichael upon the announcement. “I look forward to continuing working with the Council, our constituents and partners to manage our fisheries.”

Additional information about the September Council meeting, including a story map, committee reports and summary motions is available from the Council’s website at: https://safmc.net/safmc-meetings/council-meetings/.

The next meeting of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is scheduled for December 2-6, 2019 in Wilmington, NC. About the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, one of eight regional councils, conserves and manages fish stocks from three to 200 miles offshore of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and east Florida. For more information, visit: www.safmc.net. north carolina fisheries association 23

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icky Moore originally from New Bern, North Carolina is the award-winning Chef and Proprietor of SALTBOX Seafood Joint® with two locations and a food truck in Durham, North Carolina. Moore is the author of SALTBOX Seafood Joint ® Cookbook that was released this fall.

Moore has traveled extensively cooking in many of the major cities and abroad. Moore has been featured in Saveur, Travel & Leisure, Southern Living, The New Yorker (The Week), Garden & Gun, Our State, Vogue, USA TODAY, Eaters, Bravo TV, Tasting Table, Taste of the South and was a competitor on Food Network’s Iron Chef America. He is a graduate of Culinary Institute of America and a US Army veteran.

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Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook

by Ricky Moore 160 pages ISBN 978-1-4696-5353-2 Publication date: October 14, 2019

“A unique and authoritative cookbook for anyone looking to hone their seafood-cooking skills.”

—Foreword Reviews “Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook speaks to that classic coastal cookery that resonates with folks young and old. Chef Ricky Moore educates us about food and waterways in North Carolina while offering us the best damn chowder you’ll ever eat!”

—Mashama Bailey, executive chef, The Grey, and James Beard Award Winner for Best Chef Southeast “Even if Aquaman went to culinary school, he couldn’t have written a finer seafood cookbook than Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook. Chef Ricky Moore’s deep knowledge of—and love for—seafood shines on every page. This cookbook is hotter than fish grease!”

—Adrian Miller, author of The President’s Kitchen Cabinet and Soul Food Ricky Moore was born and reared in the North Carolina coastal town of New Bern, where catching and eating fresh fish and shellfish is what people do. Today, Moore is one of the most widely admired chefs to come out of the region. In this cookbook, he tells the story of how he started his wildly popular Saltbox Seafood Joint® restaurants and food truck in Durham, North Carolina. Moore, a formally trained chef, was led by a culinary epiphany in the famous wet markets of Singapore to start a restaurant focused purely on the food inspired by the Carolina coast and its traditional roadside fish shacks and camps. Saltbox Seafood Joint’s success is a testament to Moore’s devotion to selecting the freshest seasonal ingredients every day and preparing them perfectly.

In sixty recipes that celebrate his coastal culinary heritage, Moore instructs cooks how to prepare Saltbox Seafood Joint dishes. This cookbook, written with K. C. Hysmith, explains how to pan-fry and deep-fry, grill and smoke, and cook up soups, chowders, stews, and grits and seafood. Moore has taken pity on us and even included the recipe for his famous Hush-Honeys®, an especially addictive hushpuppy. Charts and illustrations in the book explain the featured types, availability, and cuts of fish and shellfish used in the recipes.

Ricky Moore is the founder, proprietor, and chef of Saltbox Seafood Joint in Durham, North Carolina. The book is written with K. C. Hysmith, a writer, editor, and scholar.

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Combine the oysters and liquor, bread cubes, eggs, and Parmesan in a large bowl and set aside.

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What About the Next Time? The Hurricane of ‘33: Davis Shore

Reprinted from Once Upon a Time: Stories from Davis, NC by Mabel Murphy Piner published in 1979; currently out-of-print. Special thanks to Connie Mason, NCMM, for bringing this wonderful collection of local history to our attention. It is included in the NC Collection at the Carteret County Library.

(Fall 1990, Vol. 1, No. 3, © Coastlore, P.O. Box 3, Harkers Island, NC 28531)

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n September 15,1933, a hurricane was brewing, but no one in had to let it go, and we all joined hands and started wading up the dirt road Carteret County knew it. There was no radio, television, or weathto my aunt’s house. When we finally arrived, there was not a drop of water er reports to give us the news. I was a very small child, but it is as standing in her yard, but a lot of her trees were blown over. We could hear fresh in my mind as if it had happened yesterday. piano music and singing as we neared the house. All of my aunt’s children The weather had been bad for several days - raining and blowing. The were good singers, and one daughter played the piano very well. I don’t older folk called it a “mullet blow” or “sheep storm.” think she ever had any music lessons, but she had the magic touch. The The wind shifted to the northwest just before night on the 15th, and song they were singing was “Peace Be Still.” had a big part in bringing the water out of the rivers ... Just after daylight the next morning, somedown on us. There was no electricity down east at one noticed a skiff loaded with people, and it was Dear Mailboat, that time, so lamps, lanterns, and flash-lights were Mama’s brother Carlie, his wife, his little girl and our means of light. his neighbor, wife, and their little girl. This neighI enjoyed reading about the 1933 Soon after dark, our next-door neighbor came bor of Carlie’s was a very smart woman. She had hurricane. I was in high school in New to our house. They were wet, cold and frightened. dry clothes for her family, and a big pan of “Davis Bern at the time. My folks and some friends The man of the house and his wife, with their son, Shore” rolls, all packed in a 50-pound lard can. decided to go to the basement of the Orange daughter, and her pet cat “Mickey”, brought us (When) we could see that the tide was going Crush plant, but changed our minds and the news of the tide being “up” and a bad storm down, plans were made to go back home. The went across the street to a one-story house coming. tide had left its mark at the third stairstep at our between two two-story houses.

It was very exciting to me, because my playhouse, and everything was in a big mess. The We were glad because the basement mate had come to spend the night at my house. cow had lived through the storm somehow, and so I was too young to know any­thing about a hurrihad the hogs. The fall garden was gone, and there in the Orange Crush plant flooded. The cane, so I didn’t worry over the fact that the hurriwere plenty of drowned chickens. (There was lots bridges were down and roofs floating down cane could do a lot of damage. of chicken eaten for a few days after that.) the river Neuse. I remember it well ...

Pap, my brother, the next-door neighbor and Sometime during that day, Paul Davis and LesRuth Perry Hamlet, NC his son, left the house with a lantern, in search ter Babbitt came to our house and asked Papa of a small skiff that Papa had tied to a pine tree to go with them to the Banks’ “Old Club House,” before dark. When they got there, the skiff was gone. They had started in search of Paul’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. wading back home when another skiff floated by, and as Papa said, “we Samuel Salter who were living there. Papa’s boat, the “Hilton”, was the all lit on it”, and pulled it back home with us. They tied the skiff to a post on only boat left on the shore. Papa said he didn’t see much need of going, the back porch. By that time, the tide was coming into the house. but he went...

Plans were soon made to leave our house and go to the home of MaHe ran the boat up in the Club House yard and tried to make anchor, ma’s sister. She had a big two-story house with a porch all around it, but the yard was so hard the anchor wouldn’t hold. So, he left the Club located on the comer of what is now High­way 70. The women and chilHouse and ran the boat into the bank, or marsh, and Paul jumped overdren, with Mickey the cat, got in the skiff, and the men waded alongside board with the anchor and buried it in the marsh, where it held fast. to pull and steer it, but we didn’t get very far before the skiff sank, and we Papa had carried a small skiff in the hull of the “Hilton”, and he and Paul all went to the bottom. and Lester poled up to the Club House. The folks were all living, but they Mama had brought along a bed quilt, to help keep off some of the rain had had a bad night, and most of the Club House had been destroyed. and cold wind, and she held on to it for a while, as it was all hand made, Late that evening, they started back for Davis, and found a lot of conand represented a lot of hard work, but when the boat went down, she cerned people on the shore to welcome them back home...

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Talk on the Dock IT WAS A BLUEBIRD DAY:

MILTON STYRON OF DAVIS RECALLS THE CHARLIE MASON MENHADEN STEAMER Milton Styron of Davis was interviewed in 2009 by B. Garrity-Blake for the project Raising the Story of Menhaden Fishing. Mr. Milton passed away in 2015. Photo of Milton Styron by Scott Taylor, Photo of Charlie Mason Pogie Boat courtesy of Philip Howard “Usually menhaden fishing cut out before Christmas. If it was warm and the weather was right there would still be fish here, so after Christmas they’d start back and fish then as long as they could.

They’d go to Ocracoke and Hatteras. Back then the boats were small enough that they could go out Ocracoke Inlet. They didn’t have to depend on going around the shoals.

“That day I was on Milton Styron the Mississippi. Farley Styron was captain.

That was my first day! I was twenty-four years old, just a young’un to most of those men on there. But I had been fishing here in the Sound on a striker boat and so that’s how I got the job. I had that experience. On that day, January 1st 1948, we went out Ocracoke Inlet, went through Wallace’s Channel, Ocracoke Inlet, and we headed north towards Hatteras, towards the bight. There was us and Roy Goodwin on the Fernandina.

“We were going along and it was calm and the sea was almost flat.

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So, Farley stopped the boat and I got off on the striker boat and went out there looking. It was early enough you couldn’t see too good, but I could hear them. And when I got right in them, I could see them flip, too. And not only that, I saw the bubbles arising. Back in the 40s that’s the way they’d find the fish, by bubbles. You’d go see solid bubbles arising everywhere around you.

“I knew that those fish were there. So, the crew got off in the purse boats. And I hollered and told them that fish were there. When they got right there, I set them. I went to the back of the net, tied the corks up on the striker boat.

“And not a sign of a fish! They started to pursing that net and not a sign of fish. And the old pros, I could hear them grumbling. Now I’m just a twenty-four-year-old, a young’un, and here he has gone and set us all “bull” the first thing. When you didn’t get no fish, it was called a bull set.

“But directly the fish broke on her. All at once here they come. The whole net shaking, the water, everywhere. It was those roe shad. The last ones, I reckon, caught that year. And we caught about 175,000.

That set kept me out of trouble!

“Then we headed back towards Ocracoke Inlet. It was getting up close to the middle of the day when we got up there. And the fleet, I don’t know how many boats there were there, eight or ten or twelve boats were fishing. I remember the Whitehurst was one of them and J.B. Weeks, I believe was there. And you could see solid black beds of fish. They’d go set and after they got them pursed up and boats come alongside, and it would take two crews to raise them up so they could bail them. See, you did everything by hand then.

“We went alongside of the Whitehurst and helped them get their fish. And then we went and set and we couldn’t handle them. The fish

were hard workers. And for some reason Wiley Lewis on the Charlie Mason came and helped us get our net up. And we deck loaded her right there. Had to put the boards up and deck load her.

“Now, it was a bluebird day. Not a cloud in the sky. Just as pretty, shirt sleeve weather in January. Just a light air a’blowing and no swell, either, then. But it started to rain about the time we went in the Inlet and started through Wallace’s Channel. Those clouds, the weather moves fast that time of year in the wintertime. So, we went in the Ocracoke Inlet and headed right on for the mouth of the river, Adam’s Creek. It started to sprinkling and it was foggy. And when we got up in Adam’s Creek between the head of the creek and the steel bridge, a squall come out of the south a’thundering and lightning. I mean, it was one of them times. It was rough, the wind was. We had to stop right in there until that went by.

“If we had been in the ocean it would have been bad, see. And evidently the Charlie Mason, something happened to the purse boats when they were hoisting them. And the net went overboard and got around the wheel, propeller. And that’s the reason they didn’t have any power. She washed up on the beach on Ocracoke. I believe it was the striker boatman, something happened and he fell in the fish hold.

He was killed that night. That was January 1st, 1948.

Excerpt of Charlie Mason Pogie Boat (Lyrics by Charles Stowe of Hatteras, Courtesy of Connie Mason) It was the first of January in the new year ‘48 While fishing off the Loop Shack, Charlie Mason met her fate.

It was a pretty day that morning, with a light southerly wind In the evening it looked different, the cap thought he should come in.

He gave orders to pick up port boat and the starboard, too.

When the falls broke on the starboard side, the net went in the screw Now, Wiley called the coast guard, “Nan Mike Nan 2-9 Send your 83-footer and your best piece of line.”

The crew they man the patrol boat immediately left the station Proceeded through the inlet, up to the Charlie Mason They got the line made fast when the bit broke like a match Then Wiley knew he lost his boat, and all of his catch.

I’m coming ashore Coast Guard, you better make a start

Then the crew of the Coast Guard Station broke out the old beach cart They backed up the bomb service for the beach cart to hook There was nothing but Core Sounders anywhere you might look.

And then Van Henry said, “Stanley hear my plan Harvey Smith says he’ll pay us thirty grand He’ll pay that sum if we can float, That Charlie Mason pogie boat.”

Now Lum said to William, “You load the old Lyle gun,” When he went to pull the lanyard, you could see the fellows run The Lyle Gun she wouldn’t fire, it was an awful disgrace Lum couldn’t see a single thing, his hat blew in his face.

They finally got the hawser out and tied it to the mast They stepped the crotch and fixed the buoy the thing was rigged at last First man crawled in the buoy, the crew they heaved around He was so heavy the hawser sagged; poor Devil nearly drowned.

Now all the men were saved that night all except’n one This man he had a heart attack his name was Payton Young Ansley O’Neill brought him over to the Coast Guard Station The crew they worked him over on artificial respiration.

And then Van Henry said, “Stanley hear my plan Harvey Smith says he’ll pay us thirty grand He’ll pay that sum if we can float, That Charlie Mason pogie boat.”

Up at Travis Williams’s you could hear this conversation, “If I had the equipment, I’d float that Charlie Mason!”

But Stanley Wahab told his men, “You float that craft for me!”

And Sunday the 4th of April, she was in Beaufort, NC.

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FLOODING & DAMAGE CONTROL Flooding, foundering, and capsizing are the leading cause of the loss of fishing vessels and fishermen in the U.S. The manner in which you and your crew respond to a flooding event will have a direct impact on your ability to save your boat and yourselves.

Every vessel should have emergency procedures for flooding.

The crew should be familiar with those procedures and the location and operation of the survival equipment they will use in case of flooding. In addition, the crew should drill those procedures regularly. When you develop your boat’s emergency procedures for flooding, remember the principles of flooding control: P.C.P. Plug It, Close It, and Pump It!

PLUG IT!

Anything you can do to slow a leak immediately will help buy time to affect a repair. Use whatever you may have readily at hand

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to plug the leak and slow the flooding. In addition, every vessel should have a flooding control kit (also called a damage control kit). Remember, you do not have to måake a perfect seal. Just slowing up the leak enough for the pumps to keep up is the immediate goal.

This kit could be housed in a 3 or 5-gallon bucket and have the most common tools and repair supplies suited to your boat. A few ideas for your flooding control kit include: • hose clamps in a variety of sizes, • 5/16” driver (for hose clamps), • a headlamp, • softwood conical plugs, • wooden wedges, • rags for plugs and wedges, • underwater epoxy, • duct tape, • a hacksaw, • oakum, • manila twine, • rubber gasket material, and • a rubber mallet.

Consider other gear already onboard to plug holes: tarps, blankets, locker doors, and anything else you might be able to press into service. Every square inch the hole size is reduced will decrease amount of incoming water.

Each of your boat’s through hull fittings should be equipped with a seacock and the seacocks should be serviced regularly.

Every crew member should know location of all through-hull fittings on the boat. A piping diagram for the vessel might be useful.

CLOSE IT!

When underway, maintain the watertight integrity of your com-

Operating a Coast Guard Dewatering Pump at an AMSEA F/V Drill Conductor Class

partments. Secure weather and watertight doors and hatches.

Secure openings in the hull, except ventilation for machinery spaces. This is especially important in hazardous conditions, such as bar crossings and foul weather.

Ensure that your boat maintains proper stability by not exceeding the load limits of your vessel’s stability book. Use checkers to prevent fish on deck from sliding to the low side of the boat and inducing heel. Keep the scuppers clear of fish and debris in order to allow water to clear quickly. If you fish in icing conditions, clear ice accumulations from the deckhouse, machinery, rigging, pots or traps, and scuppers.

Fishing operations often require open deck hatches. Keep a sharp eye on the weather and your boat’s stability!

available in AMSEA Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor classes.

Recognition In a flooding situation, it’s natural for the crew’s attention to be focused on efforts to save the ship. However, it’s important to prepare for the possibility that you may not be able prevent your boat from sinking. Determine if your boat and crew are in peril. If so, make a mayday call on the marine radio to alert boats in the vicinity and the Coast Guard that you need help. They may be able to help you prevent the vessel from sinking or provide rescue. In your mayday call, be sure to include your boat’s position, description, the nature of the emergency, and the number crew aboard.

Any crew not involved in efforts to stop the flooding or operating pumps should gather the crew’s immersion suits or PFDs and the boat’s EPIRP, abandon ship kit, and signal devices to a secure and accessible place on deck. If time allows, gather other supplies, such as food and water. Be prepared to launch and board the life raft once it is no longer safe to stay aboard.

TRAINING

Nobody is born knowing how to respond to vessel flooding. A U.S. Coast Guard-accepted Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor class will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to prepare for and manage emergencies at sea. You can find out about Drill Conductor classes in your area at AMSEA’s website, https://www. amsea.org.

PUMP IT!

Bilge pumps are not designed with the same capacity as dewatering pumps. It’s best for a vessel to have its own dewatering pump. The suction line should be long enough to reach from the pump to the lowest part of the boat. It should be equipped with a stop valve at the manifold, a strainer, and an accessible check valve. The operation of the dewatering pumps should be simple and known to all aboard. Pumps should be tested once a month during drills. Consider how you can adapt the boat’s other pumps for dewatering use.

In an emergency, the U.S. Coast Guard can deliver dewatering pumps by boat, plane, or helicopter. The Coast Guard’s GX120 pump is dropped by aircraft.

This pump has a capacity of 120 gallons per minute at 10-foot lift. It is usually delivered with two cans of gasoline for a runtime of approximately four hours. The Coast Guard’s P-5 pump is delivered by vessel and has a capacity of about 240 gallons per minute at 10 feet of lift.

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Below is a list of various websites that should provide you with useful information, as a handy reference.

The Coast Guard Maritime Commons: This provides the latest update information on all maritime topics. https://mariners.coastguard.blog/ CFVS Checklist Generator: All Matters USCG CFVS https://fishsafe.info/ EPIRB Registration: https://beaconregistration.noaa.gov/RGDB/index Government Bookstore (Nav Rules, CFRs, etc.): https://bookstore.gpo.gov/ Kidde Fire Extinguisher Recall: https://www.kidde.com/home-safety/en/us/support/productalerts/recall-kidde-fire-extinguisher/ NOAA Coast Pilot: https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/ index.html FCC License Online Applications:

https://www.fcc.gov/licensingdatabases/forms or https://www.fcc.gov/ship-radiostations USCG Light Lists downloads: https://www.navcen. uscg.gov/?pageName=lightLists North Carolina Tide Selections: https://www. saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/ncarolinasites.html For your dockside safety exam Contact: Barry Everhart Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon Sector North Carolina Office - (252) 247-4526 Stay safe and Return….

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