CCA NC is a proud sponsor of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation’s Annual Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards. CCA’s David Sneed Executive Director David Sneed and Assistant Director Todd Shamel represented the organization at the Sept. 12 Event in Cary. Celebrating Governor's Conservation Heroes (Raleigh, NC, September 14,...
Loggerhead killed in Core Sound area For more information, Contact CCANC at 919-781-3474 Photo attached A juvenile loggerhead sea turtle found July 26 on the Portsmouth flats of North Core Banks died from human inflicted blunt force trauma to the brain, concluded a post mortem report written last week...
North Carolina Fisheries Association Suit Dismissed Federal Judge James C. Dever has dismissed a lawsuit by the N.C. Fisheries Association demanding that the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries either abandon all Incidental Take Permits regarding sea turtles or shut down recreational fishing until a similar plan...
Today, CCA NC released its recommendations for the anticipated southern flounder supplement that will be discussed during the upcoming NC Marine Fisheries Commission meeting, May 20-22, 2015. CCA NC encourages everyone who is concerned about the current state of the NC southern flounder fishery to...
New Coastal Conservation Association billboard campaign educates the public When the electronic billboard on I-85 near Mebane, N.C., clicked on November 6, it showed an endangered sea turtle trapped in a mass of monofilament. The message read, “Gill nets should be a relic of our past,...
Recently, the Board of Directors of CCA North Carolina approved a plan to begin placing billboards around the state in support of a campaign to remove large Shrimp Trawlers and Gillnets from our inshore waters. The first two of these billboards went up in...
On Monday, August 5th, the North Carolina Fisheries Association (NCFA) and the Carteret County Fisherman’s Association (CCFA) filed a civil lawsuit in US District Court seeking relief from the Incidental Take Permit (ITP) for sea turtle interactions in the commercial fishing industry under the Endangered...
This video does a stellar job of clearly presenting the facts and SHOWING the detrimental effect that inshore shrimp trawling has on species like trout, spot and croaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPlhI-Vcj44&feature=youtu.be ...
CCA NC Chairman Greg Hurt, right, and Gary Roberson, center, treasurer for the Crystal Coast chapter of CCA, present Col. Jim Kelley with eight pairs of Leupold binoculars and two night vision scopes. The equipment will be used for surveillance operations by Marine Patrol officers...
David Sneed, an East Carolina CCA Chapter veteran, was named executive director of CCA-NC at the board’s April 15 meeting, Chairman Greg Hurt announced. A 1987 N.C. State graduate, Sneed has worked the last 15 years in the construction industry most recently with Oak Ridge Construction...
