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Crystal Coast Housing Market
By: Bill Hitchcock
If I had to pick one word to describe the Crystal Coast housing market for 2010 it would be either “clone” or “identical”. Because so far this year it has cloned or been almost identical to the first four months of 2009. That’s great news for buyers. Not so great Read more...
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Crystal Coast Home Market Report
May 17th, 2010 
admin Rip Currents
April 16th, 2010 admin Rip Currents Along North Carolina Beaches
A hazard to swimmers but a help to fishermen.
By: Bill Hitchcock
Are North Carolina beaches safe to swim? I was asked that question recently. The short answer is that all North Carolina beaches are safe. But at any given time a particular place on the beach may not be. We are Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater 
Tags: beach, berm, bill hitchcock, fish, fishermen, fishing, flounder, north carolina, ocean out suck, red drum, rip currents, sea mullet, spot, swimmer, waves 
No Comments »Captain George Beckwith Interview
April 6th, 2010 admin Saltwater Catch Radio
Today’s guest is Captain George Beckwith of Down East Guide Service. Captain Beckwith is a marine biologist, charter boat captain, tournament champion, national television celebrity and international fisherman.
Listen to the interview Bill Hitchcock did on April 5, 2010 with Captain George just days after George returned from Costa Rica. Topics discussed in this exclusive Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater Catch Radio Tags: april, bass, bill hitchcock, boat, captain, Captain George Beckwith, charter, cobia, cold stun, costa rica, crystal coast, Down East Guide Service, fish, fisherman, fishing, fishing report, hydrology, marine biologist, north carolina, Pamlico, river, roanoke, saltwater catch, sound, speckled trout, Striped bass, stripers, tarpon, television, tournament, trout, weldon No Comments »Pilot TV Show, “Carolina Offshore”
March 27th, 2010 admin 
Pilot show for the television program “Carolina Offshore” produced by Bill Hitchcock
Carolina Offshore is the television program that features world class fishing, boats, captains, mates and the anglers that makes offshore fishing from the Carolina coast so famous! If it it’s out in the deep blue, we’ll catch it and you’ll see it on Carolina Offshore!
Note Read more...
North Carolina Blue Crab Video
March 26th, 2010 admin orth Carolina is the number one producer of blue crab in the United States. It is the most economically valuable fishery to the state! But in less than 5 years, over half of the states processors have been forced to shut down and a coastal way of life is threatened.
Play this video produced by Bill Read more...
Jerry Schill On Law Suit & Beasley Center
March 5th, 2010 admin Jerry Schill On Turtle Law Suit & Beasley Center
By: Bill Hitchcock
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. Read more...
Turtles, Lies and Gill Nets
March 2nd, 2010 admin Listen to the radio broadcast now online!
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 Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater Catch Radio, Saltwater Fishing Tags: bill hitchcock, boating, broadcast, Endangered Species Act, fishing, gill netting, jerry schill, Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital, ncdmf, north carolina, North Carolina Fisheries Association, online, radio, saltwater catch, turtles, WNBU 94.1FM No Comments »Read the Entire Turtle & Gill Net Law Suit
February 26th, 2010 admin Read the Entire Turtle & Gill Net Law Suit
Bill Hitchcock
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 Read more...
Posted in Area Info, Saltwater, Saltwater Fishing Tags: bill hitchcock, catch, commercial and recreational fisheries, commercial gill net fisheries, COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF, Endangered Species Act, federally protected sea turtles, GILL NET, KAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER, law suit, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noaa, North Carolina Department of Marine Fisheries, North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission, pamlico sound, Pamlico Sound Gill Net Restricted Area, Saltwater, saltwater catch, sea turtles, turtle, web site No Comments »CCA Director on Gill Nets, Trawls & MFC
February 25th, 2010 admin 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!
The radio broadcasts have time contraints. The Read more...
DMF Director and MFC Chairman Speak Out
February 24th, 2010 admin 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 Read more...
