North Carolina Coastal Fisheries Reform Group Inc

The North Carolina Coastal Fisheries Reform Group campaigns to change how the state manages its public trust marine resources, citing a roughly 88 percent decline in fish landings over two decades across North Carolina's 2.3 million acres of inshore estuarine waters. Its platform includes centralizing marine resource management under the Wildlife Resources Commission, science-based limits on trawling in estuarine waters, stronger gill net rules to reduce bycatch, and commercial licensing reform.

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