March 5th, 2010
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Jerry Schill On Turtle Law Suit & Beasley Center
By: Bill Hitchcock
Jerry Schill
Jerry Schill, former President of the North Carolina Fisheries Association a commercial fishing trade organization speaks freely on the Saltwater Catch Radio program about the current law suit to ban gill nets filed on behalf of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center located in Topsail, NC.
Mr. Schill explains why he is involved and what the “common sense approach” is to resolve this conflict.
Listen to the uncut and unedited version of the interview now in the forums section of the Saltwater Catch web site.
Saltwater Catch radio program airs on WNBU 94.1FM on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 12:30PM. All radio broadcast, exclusive interviews and uncut/unedited versions are archived in the forums sectionof the web site.
March 4th, 2010
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Crystal Coast Housing Market Report
By: Bill Hitchcock
Crystal Coast of North Carolina
The housing market across the entire country has been in a tail spin for several years now. The question forefront in everyone’s mind is when is it going to end? To understand where we are headed we have to understand where we have been. Here we are going to investigate 8 years of the Crystal Coast real estate market place.
Let’s first take a look at a snap shot overview of the housing market. The below graph show 8 years of active homes (Number of homes for sale), new homes on market (Just listed) and the actual number of sold homes. Condos are not included.
2005 was the best year ever for the Crystal Coast Multiple Listing Service (MLS) area. I am describing “best” as the smallest gap between homes for sale and homes actually sold. After that year you see sales slowly declining and inventory balloning upwards. The supply of new homes for sale continued to increase on up to 2007. A glut of inventory of which we still have today, developed simply because we have never been able to sell the inventory at the rate in which it has come on market. In fact the rate of new inventory coming on market has been 3-4 times that of inventorty going off market as sold.
Crystal Coast Sold, Active and New On Market Homes
How Does This Affect Price? Read more »
March 2nd, 2010
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Listen to the radio broadcast now online!
Sea Turtle
A MFC Commissioner says he’s only been told half truths. The NCDMF Director gets heckled when he states that NC is not the only state that allows gill netting. Is the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital breaking the law? All of this because of the law suit filed that is attempting to end large mesh gill netting in North Carolina waters
Go to Saltwater Catch radio and web site right now and listen.
Find out how the Endangered Species Act could prohibit ALL types of fishing (Recreational and commercial) and ALL types of boating!
Jerry Schill, former President of the North Carolina Fisheries Association expresses his “Wildest Dream” in regards to this issue. It will suprise you what he says!
The Saltwater Catch radio program with Bill Hitchcock broadcast every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30PM on WNBU 94.1FM and can be listen to any time online at the Saltwater Catch web site.
February 26th, 2010
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Read the Entire Turtle & Gill Net Law Suit
Bill Hitchcock
Turtle and Gill Net Law Suit
The following is the text to the actual law suit filed by the Duke Envirnomental Law Center on behalf of the Karen Beasley Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center against the NC Division of Marine Fisheries and the NC Marine Fisheries Commission.
All efforts have been made to maintain the integrity of the documents’ text. Please let me know if any text, symbols, statements, words, sentences, paragraphs have been altered in any way. For additional information log on to the Saltwater Catch web site.
THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHERN DIVISION
No. 7:10-CV-32
THE KAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER, Plaintiff,
COMPLAINT FED. R. CIV. P. 3
vs.
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF MARINE FISHERIES;
DR. LOUIS DANIEL, Director of North Carolina Division of Marine)
Fisheries; NORTH CAROLINA MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION,)
Defendants.
Continue on to read the entire 20 page document Read more »
February 25th, 2010
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Richen Brame, Director of the Coastal Conservation Association’s Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Committee.
Bill Hitchcock of Saltwater Catch in this uncut and unedited interview available only here and at the Saltwater Catch web site. This interview is as it happened and will not be heard on radio in its entirety!
Richen Brame, Coastal Conservation Association
The radio broadcasts have time contraints. The internet does not. So this new feature of posting unedited and uncut interviews has been added. You can still listen to Saltwater Catch on 94.1 FM WNBU on air-But to get the complete interview you must come here or to the Saltwater Catch web site.
Topics include the MFC Meeting, shrimp trawls, gill nets, fisheries management, economic importance of various fisheries, the need for independent indices and more! This is an exclusive interview and we thank Mr. Brame for doing it. Continue on to listen.
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February 24th, 2010
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Dr. Daniel and Mr. Bizzell
Dr. Louis Daniel and Rob Bizzell speak freely about the Marine Fisheries Commission meeting held last week in New Bern. These are exclusive audio interviews not found anywhere else. You will be surprised at what you hear.
Dr. Louis Daniel Interview
Bill Hitchcock of Saltwater Catch interviewed Dr.Lou Daniel, Director of North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) the Monday following the MFC meeting in New Bern. Bill asks for Dr. Daniel thoughts and opinions of the meeting and of the outcome. Dr. Daniel tells us how the entire large mesh gill net fishery must be re-thought. Continue on to listen. Read more »
February 22nd, 2010
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So Much For Theology
A great healing happened to me yesterday
By: Bill Hitchcock
I have been suffering with a severe case of psoriatic arthritis for a number of years. Psoriatic arthritis is an arthritis that is associated with psoriasis of the skin. The arthritis was so severe that it left me crippled. All joints of my body, including spine, shoulders, arms, legs had been affected. At its worst I was unable to stand or even hold a pencil. Chronic fatigue and exhaustion had me taking naps frequently. I have undergone virtually every treatment known to modern medicine to no avail.
A few years ago I received a healing. Through prayer, faith and the Church the arthritis was lifted. I did not have a change in medicine but I did have a change in my relationship with Jesus.
As a result of my healing I started running again. My dog ran with me too. Every morning rain or shine, sleet or snow, cold or heat my dog and I would be out running. My dog would be so excited about running with me each morning that she would sleep at my bedroom door as if afraid I would sneak out and run without her.
My running was progressing well and eventually started training for a marathon. I had my sights on a marathon that was to take place in the Outer Banks in November of 2009.
By June of 2009 I was in the midst of my marathon training and was running up to 15 miles a day. Then all of a sudden I came down with pneumonia. Unfortunately, colds, flu’s, viruses and such can cause outbreaks of psoriases and this did-Big time. My body was about 75% covered with the sores associated with psoriases. Soon after that-the psoriases brought the arthritis back. By July of 2009 although the pneumonia and psoriases had gone I was left with the crippling arthritis again.
Yesterday (February 21, 2010)-Immediately after Church I was healed. Read more »
February 21st, 2010
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Speckled Trout Cold Stun & Kill Special! Get The FACTS!
SEGMENT ONE
Beth Burns of NCDMF reveals new discoveries of the Cold Stun Event. It wasn’t just cold waters that affected these fish!
Was this a “jubilee” of dead fish? Interesting details of what was found in 90% of sites investigated for cold stun/kills. Find out what gill net and trawl fishermen discovered
How far off was the Coastal Fisheries Reform Groups claims about the dead trout? Continue on to listen to the radio show. Read more »
February 20th, 2010
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Buying Real Estate In North Carolina
Why you need a buyer’s broker
By: Bill Hitchcock
(This is the third part of a three part series)
We’ve been exploring the attributes and advantages of contracting a buyer’s broker. We’ve discussed the assets of it all but what about liabilities? How much does buyer’s brokerage cost?
Bill Hitchcock
For the most part, nothing! You see, a portion of the commission that a listing agent gets is designated for the buyer’s broker. The listing agent shares the commission with the buyer’s broker at closing. Noticed I said shared and not split. The listing agent and the seller determine how much they want to compensate the buyer’s broker.
But what happens if the property isn’t listed by a listing agent. Read more »
February 18th, 2010
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North Carolina Coastal Fishing Report
Hatteras Bluefin Tuna
By Bill Hitchcock
Here we are in February. The coast of North Carolina just experienced a big snowfall. Morehead City and the Crystal Coast had 8-9 inches of it. The only greater snow event I can remember was Christmas of 1989. Back then it snowed a foot and a half!
But our snowfall isn’t the only “big” thing going on along our coast now. Bluefin tuna have showed up in great numbers too.
Videographer Bill Hitchcock Taping
I love it when I get reports from a fishing fleet like this: “Bluefins, Bluefins, Bluefins! One captain reported all you want!”
That report came from Hatteras Harbor Marina this past Monday, February 18, 2010. It seems that the bluefin tuna started showing up the Friday prior. Well, to be more accurate-The weather last week started allowing the boats to head out and fish for them. You may recall that before all of the snow we had a lot of windy days! The great catches of tuna continues even as I write this article on Thursday February 18.
These bluefin tuna don’t seem to be very large fish. Reports of the kept bluefins have them weighing in at the 150-175 pound class. By the way Bluefin tuna are a highly regulated migratory species. There are certain minimum size limits and specific catch quotas and seasons for them
Also mixed in with the bluefin tuna are yellow fin tuna. Yellowfin tuna are the most commonly caught variety of tuna landed off the coast of North Carolina. They are usually the ones served in restaurants and sold at fish markets.
Weather affects fishermen more than it affects fish. If the wind will stay down then the great fishing should continue!
Bill Hitchcock was a television producer and coordinator for the Tag-A-Giant Bluefin Tuna Conservation Series. Some of his work on bluefin tuna has appeared on the History Channel and Discovery Channel. He currently owns a real estate agency along the coast of North Carolina called Hitchcock Realty
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