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Jun 11, 2025

Why Are Bonnethead Sharks on the Move?

Water temperatures could be the key.

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Jun 9, 2025

PFAS, Arsenic, and Trade-Offs

New research finds that drilling deeper groundwater wells may provide residents in counties along the Cape Fear River with safer drinking water. It’s a promising alternative for many people living near…

Austin Gray with a student conducting fieldwork at a creek.

Jun 9, 2025

A New World for Microbes

Billions of microplastic particles make their way through North Carolina’s waterways and into the Pamlico Sound alone each year — which makes understanding the impacts of plastic pollution more important than…

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Jun 4, 2025

Mariner’s Menu

Choice Fish Cakes contributed by Joyce Taylor Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Sauté the onion and celery until tender. Remove saucepan from heat. Add parsley, bread crumbs,…

Jun 3, 2025

Rip Currents Safety

Download a printable PDF. Learn more. FROM THE SUMMER 2025 ISSUEcoming soon

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Jun 3, 2025

Will North Carolina’s Blue Crabs Go Extinct?

The North Carolina blue crab fishery is the state’s most valuable commercial fishery. However, the blue crab stock is depleted from fishing and is vulnerable to environmental stressors like temperature…

image: The view from the ruins of the old lighthouse (built in 1875) at Cape Three Points, Ghana. Credit: Friedmut Abel/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0.

Jun 3, 2025

Across the Atlantic

At dawn, the shoreline of Cape Three Points comes alive. Canoes bob gently in the surf as fishermen chant in unison, pulling in heavy nets glinting with the morning’s catch.…

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Jun 3, 2025

Hook, Line & Science

Are big dolphinfish getting harder to catch? Two decades of fishing data raise concerns about this offshore favorite.  Dolphinfish, also known as mahi-mahi, are a prized catch among those recreational…

Apr 14, 2025

Mariner’s Menu

MARINER’S MENU, NORTH CAROLINA SEA GRANT ’S POPULAR ONLINE SEAFOOD GUIDE, INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF FREE RECIPES. VANDA LEWIS’S SHORT VIDEOS ABOUT HOW TO PREPARE EACH OF THESE FALL FAVORITES ARE…

Apr 14, 2025

Was Hazel North Carolina’s Worst-Case Hurricane?

NO DISCUSSION ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA’S SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL HURRICANES IS COMPLETE WITHOUT HAZEL, WHICH HIT THE STATE 70 YEARS AGO THIS FALL.  In terms of intensity, Hazel is in a league…