Media Category: Newsletter
Electrofishing on the Catawba River for Walleye
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission biologist Thomas Johnson pulls a fish from the Catawba River while electrofishing with biologist David Goodfred Wednesday March 13, 2024.
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WRC biologists are working in District 8 to reclaim a Pisgah National Forest stream from non-native Brown Trout. Once the 1.4-km reach is fully depopulated after several multi-pass electrofishing removal efforts, native Brook Trout will be reintroduced to the stream to hopefully restore a stronghold in a drainage largely devoid of genetically pure populations.”
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Scott Loftis, Mountain Region Aquatic Habitat Coordinator, holding two Largemouth Bass from Lake Hickory
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NCWRC District 6 Fisheries Biologists, Casey Joubert and Troy Thompson, completed Spring survey work on Lake Norman, Blewett Falls Lake, Badin Lake, and Tuckertown Lake. Big ol’ Bass were the main target species as well as some late season Stripers!
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David Hart and Seth Mycko work through a livewell full of bass for a resident fish survey at Graham-Mebane Lake.
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District 4 spent most of the spring on the Cape Fear River surveying anadromous fish. Here, Clemson University’s Maggie Gaither measures an American Shad at Lock & Dam 3. Photo Credit: Kyle Rachels.
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District 3 biologist David Belkoski with a large Freshwater Drum collected in Lake Gaston in May.
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District 2 Fisheries Biologist I Mason Collins holding a nice Largemouth Bass while evaluating sport fish opportunities at Martin Marietta Park in New Bern, NC
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District 1 biologists Deon Kerr (l) and Chris Smith (r) drop off control fish during a Striped Bass catch and release mortality study on the Roanoke River
