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Trick or Treat aboard the Battleship North Carolina on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019, from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm.

Batty Battleship, brother Buggy and their friends return to the Battleship for a spooktacular time.

Bring your little ghouls and goblins for trick-or-treating, games and fun for kids of all ages. Batty Battleship is perfect for the little ones and families!  Children are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes. Be sure to bring your camera!

Come have fun aboard the Battleship North Carolina for the annual Batty Battleship’s Halloween Bash!

Admission is $5 per person, Kids 2 and under free.

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Think of  beers you’ve never had, some you’ve never even heard of, because that’s what we’ll have. This is an event for the true beer aficionado, someone that loves to try new things.

Searching for latest and greatest beer ?— this event is for you!

We host the most amazing and fantastic breweries who will pour their most sought after beer.  The Voracious Rare Beer Festival is a precursor to our large event Saturday, but it is also the ultimate beer geek experience. Tickets are extremely limited, so get yours in hand asap. We select 50 breweries through a rigorous selection process, selected to pour their favorite limited release beers [read as: beers you’ll never have otherwise].  Also included in the evening is dinner, delightfully rare voracious brews, and live music. Tickets are available in the shop and online!

Our aim to is to give those wanting a special beer experience the ultimate good time! The larger 19th annual Lighthouse Beer & Wine Festival on Saturday is a great event for those looking to try hundreds of new beers, but the Voracious & Rare Beer Festival is designed for those who already know what they like.   In a more personal setting, you’ll be able to discuss and taste libations with the beer makers individually.

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Lighthouse Beer and Wine puts on this fantastic event once a year, always in the wonderful month of October. Mark your calendars for October 26th for this year’s 19th annual Beer and Wine Festival.

Join us for the largest Beer and Wine Festival in the southeast! This is the one event of the year you don’t want to miss.

More craft breweries and wineries than you can possibly ever taste will be all in one place! There’s no better way to try all the best beer and wine available. We want you to find new and exciting beverages that you’ll love to sip. You will want nothing more that to hone your hop tasting, tickle your tongue, and have the best beer and wine tasting day of the year.

Due to the popular demand of this 19th annual Beer and Wine festival– we’re growing into 2 sessions! Session 1 will soak up the sun from 11:30am-3:30pm while Session 2 will entertain attendees from 5pm-9pm. Chat with your friends, talk to your cat sitter, pick a session and get your tickets now! Ticket holders will only be able to enter their assigned session.

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Everyone is welcome to enjoy this FREE, unique event and applaud the talented canine athletes on October 5th at 11 am at Wrightsville Beach Town Park. Competitors need no previous experience! Competitors with the most points in distance/accuracy will be declared the winner! Extra points awarded for air catches.

And, just for fun, register to compete for the Best Dressed Dog, Best Dressed Team, and Dog Displaying the Most Personality Title! Spectators will vote for the winner, and participation in the disc competition is not required for this fun contest! For the safety of our canine competitors, canine costumes may not be worn during the disc competition rounds.

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For more information, contact us at 910-256-7925 or email [email protected]

Many North Carolina beaches set records for the number of sea turtle nests this summer. However, as Hurricane Dorian approached many feared it would bring an unfortunate end to the season.

In Florida, officials said thousands of nests in erosion zones were thought to be destroyed in the storm from overwash after Dorian basically stalled off the state’s east coast for days as it devastated the Bahamas.

Fortunately, it looks like North Carolina fared better.

Sarah Finn, coastal wildlife biologist and sea turtle stranding coordinator with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, said she’s still getting reports from volunteers but believes North Carolina didn’t lose many nests during the storm.

Fort Fisher State Recreation Area on Pleasure Island, said that some of the beaches at the park did see overwash, and as a result, they lost 13 nests. A total of 159 nests were laid at the park and about 100 had hatched before the storm. The area also lost several nests during the king tides before the hurricane arrived.

Sea turtle hatchlings face many risks before they reach maturity, from predators to tides and hurricanes.

It is part of the life cycle and repopulation strategy to spread out the risk, which is why each nest has so many eggs. Not all nests produce hatchlings and not all hatchlings survive.

At Fort Fisher, park rangers are still watching the 17 nests that remain, including one that was laid the day before Hurricane Dorian arrived.

Volunteer groups helped relocate some nests days before the storm in preparation. Beachgoers and vacationers pitched in with shovels to help create a sand barrier around vulnerable nests at many North Carolina Beaches.

Volunteer groups like the Pleasure Island Sea Turtle Project and Ocean Isle Beach Sea Turtle Protection Organization said they fared well — although one nest was lost in each area.

Deb Allen, with the Ocean Isle Beach organization, said volunteers found a nest set-up (which includes mesh netting and a cage to protect the eggs from predation) washed up onto the dunes as the eggs were washed away and dug up by a fox. They don’t yet know if all of the remaining nests are viable.

The Ocean Isle Volunteers help rescue a juvenile green turtle trapped in a tide pool created by the storm. Volunteers were eventually able to get it back into the ocean.

Both Topsail Island and Fort Fisher are still waiting on a full reports of the total nests, but it is possible some of the nests thought to be lost may still be there, but with posts and markings gone they could be difficult to locate.

Recreational and commercial southern flounder seasons closed on Sept. 4 in North Carolina waters. The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission made the decision at its August meeting, adopting the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 2 as proposed by the Division of Marine Fisheries.

 

The recreational and commercial southern flounder seasons will close Sept. 4 in North Carolina waters. The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission made the decision at its meeting last week, adopting the Southern Flounder Fishery Management Plan Amendment 2 as proposed by the Division of Marine Fisheries.

However, the commission gave the director of the Division of Marine Fisheries flexibility to change the dates of proposed commercial and recreational seasons so long as they still meet required harvest reductions.

The division issued proclamations that closed the commercial and recreational season on Sept. 4. Changes to the allowable gears in the commercial ocean flounder fishery were also be implemented Sept. 4.

Since all species of flounder are managed under the same recreational regulations, the recreational season closure applies to all flounder fishing.

The recreational season will not reopen this year, as the peak recreational flounder fishing season has already passed. As a result, the estimated level of recreational harvest so far in 2019 is greater than that allowed under Amendment 2, thus reducing the expected catch reductions for this sector.

The commercial sector landings do not peak until September and October, so the current commercial harvest combined with the projected harvest during an upcoming open season is projected to equate to a slightly greater reduction than in the recreational fishery.

The commercial flounder season will reopen on Sept. 15 in waters north of Pamlico Sound and on Oct. 1 in Pamlico Sound and all other waters.

Other regulations specific to the commercial fishery will be issued by proclamation at a later date. Fishermen should check the Division of Marine Fisheries’ Proclamations Page for updates.

Analysis of Division of Marine Fisheries data indicates that from 2000 to 2018, as much as 50% or more of ocean-caught recreational flounder were southern flounder, as opposed to other flounder species (this includes beach and pier fishing). Since statistical data on the for-hire charter fleet is limited and has high margins of error, the division needs more time to consider whether to separate the for-hire seasons from other recreational fishing seasons.

Additionally, to encourage conservation, the N.C. Saltwater Fishing Tournament (Citation Program) will not issue citations for flounder during the recreational season closure.

Southern flounder is one of three main species of flounder landed on the North Carolina coast, along with summer flounder and Gulf flounder.

The reductions in harvest are required because a 2019 South Atlantic Southern Flounder Stock Assessment states that the southern flounder population is too small and the harvest rate is too high from North Carolina to the eastern coast of Florida.

North Carolina law mandates that fishery management plans include measures to end overfishing within two years of adoption and rebuild the stock to achieve sustainable harvest within 10 years of adoption of a fishery management plan.