Category Archives: North Carolina

Orcas Spotted off Oregon Inlet

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Chuck

And you thought dogfish stealing your catch was bad…  Recently a group of fishermen looking for bluefin tuna off of Oregon Inlet here in North Carolina’s very own Outer Banks had quite the show as a pod of orcas appeared … Continue reading →

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Who Gets to Fish for Dogfish?

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Chuck

I meant to write about this earlier this month after attending the public comment session related to the spiny dogfish fisheries management plan (FMP).  Since it’s taken this long to actually sit down and write about it, this post isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in fisheries management, North Carolina, spiny dogfish | 8 Comments

Carcharhinus linkbatus

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Chuck

Apologies for the long lag time between posts this week.  Let’s catch up. From Rick over at Deep Sea News: Holy crap that’s a lot of bull sharks! Remind me to find some way to do my PhD research in … Continue reading →

Posted in conservation, diving, dorkiness, fisheries management, humor, linkage, North Carolina, sharks, video, whales | 1 Comment

Fish Wars: Recreational and Commercial Fishermen Clash Over Striped Bass

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Chuck

This will be a rare non-shark post, but I think it will cover an issue that permeates throughout fisheries management regardless of which species you’re focused on (maybe not so much spiny dogfish: rec and commercial fishermen alike aren’t huge … Continue reading →

Posted in fisheries, fisheries management, gill nets, grad school, North Carolina, striped bass | 4 Comments

Sharks and Trophic Cascades: Cut and Dry?

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Chuck

A recent post over at Chronicles of Zostera referenced a paper that has become a monster in the world of marine ecology and shark conservation.  That paper: Myers et al. (2007).  It’s actually a relatively unassuming paper kind of tucked … Continue reading →

Posted in conservation, cownose rays, ecology, fisheries management, North Carolina, research blogging, sharks | 16 Comments

There Goes Earl

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Chuck

Hurricane Earl petered out off the coast of North Carolina just before it hit, dropping from a behemoth Category 4 storm to Category 2.  Now it’s down to Category 1 and headed north.  Aside from some street flooding in the … Continue reading →

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Here Comes Earl

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Chuck

It’s looking like Earl might hit the east coast harder than any storm since Hurricane Bob (which I watched as a child way back in ’91 as it destroyed half the trees in my yard in Rhode Island).  Evacuations have … Continue reading →

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Crawling Back Up on the Beach

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Chuck

Apologies for the posts being a little thin here of late.  Between issues with our friendly local cable provider (rhymes with “Buddenlink”) and having to put entire days into getting my talk/teaching/classwork ready, I certainly haven’t been bored this past … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, dorkiness, grad school, North Carolina, spiny dogfish | 2 Comments

Shameless Self-Promotion

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Chuck

If anyone is in or near the ECU area around lunchtime on Monday, you should probably stop in and check out a certain handsome devil giving a talk on dogfish feeding habits.  Just sayin’.

Posted in AFS, grad school, North Carolina, research, spiny dogfish | 4 Comments

North Carolina Has Sharks Too

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Chuck

I post quite a bit on the sharks of my homeland of New England, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that I neglect my current station here in North Carolina.  I’m actually woefully late in writing about this … Continue reading →

Posted in North Carolina, sharks | 3 Comments