The state Marine Fisheries Commission has adopted an amendment that equally splits landings of southern flounder between commercial and recreational fishers beginning this year.

The mandatory catch reporting requirement for five popular fish species was to come into effect Dec. 1. But fisheries officials want a year extension.

North Carolina to allow recreational flounder fishing in some inland waters after all The decision comes after the Wildlife Resources Commission decided a total closure by N.C. Marine Fisheries ...

Southern flounder are a popular North Carolina fish. For the first time, North Carolina's commercial and recreational fishing industries are set to split the southern flounder catch 50-50 this year.

During its business meeting this week, the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commisssion increased this year's flouder allocation for the ...

Last year, state regulators decided to cancel the 2024 recreational flounder fishing season in coastal waters due to concerns over the status of the stressed fishery.

But why is flounder fishing so good on the Eastern Shore? “The flounder come in and they get up on the flats and try to find warm water,” Hill told me.

Don Brown said from Captain Andy's Marina in Margate that he was fishing at the same location with Strassler a couple of days prior and he got the only fish at that spot, a 6-plus-pound flounder.